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- Aug 25, 2012
There is limited published information about CSA Marine uniforms. The Company of Military Historians have published three uniforms plates on this subject. Here is the CSA Marine uniform plate for the early Civil War years.
The color plate is too large to fit on my scanner, but I think this rather poor scan shows show the basic uniforms. The CSA Marine early war uniforms are simular to the US Marines. My question is the Confederate Marine second form the left. In general his uniform is not simular to US Marines and he also wears a sailor style cap (pancake cap, flat cap, or Donald Duck cap). I am not sure there are photographs of US Marines wearing "sailor" caps. Also why a cap pouch but no belt for his ammunition pouch?
For your information the woman in the illustration is not a female Confederate Marine.
The color plate is too large to fit on my scanner, but I think this rather poor scan shows show the basic uniforms. The CSA Marine early war uniforms are simular to the US Marines. My question is the Confederate Marine second form the left. In general his uniform is not simular to US Marines and he also wears a sailor style cap (pancake cap, flat cap, or Donald Duck cap). I am not sure there are photographs of US Marines wearing "sailor" caps. Also why a cap pouch but no belt for his ammunition pouch?
For your information the woman in the illustration is not a female Confederate Marine.