Uniforms Somber uniforms worn by the South Kansas-Texas Mounted Regiment at the Battle of Wilson's Creek

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Each company of the South Kansas-Texas Mounted Regiment at the Battle of Wilson's Creek wore a different style and color of uniform. However, the Rusk County Cavalry wore a somber uniforms of black coats and vests, brown jeans, black hats, and black boots
 
Sounds like the "Rusk County Cavalry" weren't wearing uniforms but regular citizen clothes. Each Company that early on just wore whatever they could from the local level, but it seems they got some Federal uniforms early on.

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Company G Oscar A Durrum, from Marion County if I remember right, wearing a US M1854 Inf. frock coat and standard pre-war dark blue trousers of the 1854 pattern and non-US kepi.

There's a lot of pictures of of men early on wearing citizen clothes and another of a man in a pre-war US uniform, for Mounted Rifles in a private collection.
 
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