CSA Issued Unif. Myth of the Ragged Rebel

[Ground Sleeper]

i found this in my daily research mission. I found it very interesting, I was shock to find out how many uniforms were actually issued and the numbers listed are just the ones that weren't destroyed at the end of the war.

www.military-historians.org/company/journal/confederate/confederate-1.htm

Happy campaigning

[kentmiller]

In recent reading there was a reference made by Longstreet on moving to the western theatre in 1863 of the contrast between the "natty" dress of the virginians to the more worn look of the Army of Tennessee. Also there was a later reference to the Army of the Cumberland in which it was stated that infantry preferred to wear blankets over their shoulders while divisions from the Army of the Potomac in tennessee and Goergia continued to use backpacks. I have only the two comments to verify this, and like all information cannot be varified by me. i only take it as it comes, but in the end I get the impression that the ANV was in fact quite well fixed out in uniforms with the exception of slow replacement of worn items. I would hazard a guess however that after 47 days under seige at Vicksburg, the confederates were probably pretty ratty looking.

kent

[Ground Sleeper]

Oh for sure, the Vicksburg campaign was part of the western theater in which the army of the Tenn were farther from Richmond and Supplies. Even federal Armies in the west were more "ragged" or as ragged as the federal armies could get.

Happy Campaigning

Ground Sleeper