zburkett
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2015
- Location
- Orange County, Virginia
Edward A. Moore, in his book "The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson" list what he was wearing in early February 1862 when he entered Frederick, Maryland. We have a lot of discussions about proper uniform, but this is one of the few detailed descriptions of what one man was actually wearing on a given day. So, for what it is worth.
""My hat..... It had been made to order by a substantial hatter in Lexington, and served through the war on one head after another. It was a tall, drab colored fur of conical shape, with several rows of holes punched around the crown for ventilation. I still wore the lead-colored knit jacket ......This garment was adorned with a blue stripe near the edges, buttoned close at the throat, and came down well over the hips, fitting after the manner of a shirt. My trousers, issued by the Confederate Quartermaster Department, were fashioned in North Carolina, of a reddish-brown or brick -dust color, part wool and part cotton, elaborate in dimensions about the hips and seat, but tapering and small at the feet, in imitation, as to shape and color, of those worn by Billy Wilson's Zouaves at first Manassas."
""My hat..... It had been made to order by a substantial hatter in Lexington, and served through the war on one head after another. It was a tall, drab colored fur of conical shape, with several rows of holes punched around the crown for ventilation. I still wore the lead-colored knit jacket ......This garment was adorned with a blue stripe near the edges, buttoned close at the throat, and came down well over the hips, fitting after the manner of a shirt. My trousers, issued by the Confederate Quartermaster Department, were fashioned in North Carolina, of a reddish-brown or brick -dust color, part wool and part cotton, elaborate in dimensions about the hips and seat, but tapering and small at the feet, in imitation, as to shape and color, of those worn by Billy Wilson's Zouaves at first Manassas."