Uniforms Union kepis on Confederate soldiers

I have a question for the expert's. I have discovered several photos of Confederate soldiers wearing Confederate battle shirts or uniforms but wearing union issued forage caps. Was this common? I live in Missouri and have dug metal detecting many union buttons in Confederate camps. I am getting into civil war reancting and plan to adorn a union forage cap with Missouri Confederate uniform.

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Those Individuals are Missouri State Guardsmen, the photo is prior to the MSG or rather a portion of the MSG " went south" so they aren"t actually Confederate Troops. As state troops the uniform was not regulated until later in the war no uniform policy was in place and no centeral issue was being made. Those men are the Duvall Brothers from Western Missouri.
 
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