ID this uniform.

[major bill]

I was moving items about in my library and thought it might be interesting to let our uniform experts identify this Civil War era uniform. I know what is being depicted, but how long will it take our uniform people to come up with the right answer? Way too many clues, I am guessing this one will not take long.

 

[Legion Para]

Bandsman U.S Marine Corps 1859

By George Woodbridge, Company of Military Historians, 1974.

 

[major bill]

Is this Confederate image harder?

 

[major bill]

This is from a Company of Military Historians, Uniforms in America plate series. OK it is not really Civil War era and although it is a uniform worn in America I am not saying it has to be North America.

I am moving a bunch of old uniform plates around. I am not sure where to store this plate.

 

[Legion Para]

This is from a Company of Military Historians, Uniforms in America plate series. OK it is not really Civil War era and although it is a uniform worn in America I am not saying it has to be North America.View attachment 112322 I am moving a bunch of old uniform plates around. I am not sure where to store this plate.

Attention Moderators: Please feel free to delete since this not Civil War related. With that said, seventeen Legionnaires later served in the Union Army. This has been fully documented.

 

[GELongstreet]

I´d say the last one looks pretty French Foreign Legion to me ... though it's been quite some time since they were in North America.

 

[Legion Para]

I´d say the last one looks pretty French Foreign Legion to me ... though it's been quite some time since they were in North America.

It is the Legion, the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment and they are in Guyana.

 

[Waterloo50]

Any thoughts on which regiment these two chaps come from? I have no clue myself, I'm not sure if its an artist interpretation or if these are real uniforms. They look like infantry uniforms from the Crimea. The rule of thumb for working out the facings and colours on uniforms is,
blue for Royals, white for English & Welsh, green for Irish, and yellow for Scottish.

 

[tbuckley]

Any thoughts on which regiment these two chaps come from? I have no clue myself, I'm not sure if its an artist interpretation or if these are real uniforms. They look like infantry uniforms from the Crimea. The rule of thumb for working out the facings and colours on uniforms is,
blue for Royals, white for English & Welsh, green for Irish, and yellow for Scottish.

I'm very confused by this picture.

 

[Waterloo50]

I'm very confused by this picture.

You have every right to be confused, it was taken from the cover of a book, a 'What if Britain had entered the Civil War'.
That's why I was asking about the uniforms.

 

[Waterloo50]

This is from a Company of Military Historians, Uniforms in America plate series. OK it is not really Civil War era and although it is a uniform worn in America I am not saying it has to be North America.View attachment 112322 I am moving a bunch of old uniform plates around. I am not sure where to store this plate.

That's modern legionnaire isn't it?

 

[7thWisconsin]

They have green facings. I would wager that cover art is based on the Inneskelling Fusiliers, which I think is the 27th Foot. Not that you can trust cover art...

 

[Waterloo50]

They have green facings. I would wager that cover art is based on the Inneskelling Fusiliers, which I think is the 27th Foot. Not that you can trust cover art...

2nd Warwickshire also had green facings.

 

[Legion Para]

That's modern legionnaire isn't it?

Yes.

 

[zburkett]

Is this Confederate image harder?

View attachment 112321

8th Alabama, Company I, "Emerald Guards"

 

[Waterloo50]

Is this Confederate image harder?

View attachment 112321

Kentucky Militia perhaps? Lexington rifles.

 

[Waterloo50]

Yes.

Apologies for going off topic, but would you happen to know of any links with images for the Devils Guard. I've read the book of the same name but I've never seen any pictures of them.

 

[major bill]

That's modern legionnaire isn't it?

Yes a legionnaire, but from 30 years ago or so.

 

[major bill]

I wonder if the British uniforms show Irish units? They way they are facing off makes me think the art work is about the Irish immigrants of the Union and the Irish immigrants of the confederacy fighting each other.