Uniforms What regiment is this reenactor portraying?

[major bill]

Seen this uniform at a reenactments today. I figure that most form members can offer a good guess.

 

[Dan Kohli]

You forgot the picture.

 

[J. Rodriguez]

It looks like it's based on the iron brigade, maybe 6th or 2nd Wisconsin?

 

[major bill]

Another view.

It looks like it's based on the iron brigade, maybe 6th or 2nd Wisconsin?

It looks like it's based on the iron brigade, maybe 6th or 2nd Wisconsin?

Iron Brigade but 24th Michigan. He was a prop for a hour long presentation about the 14th Michigan. The talk was very interesting.

 

[7thWisconsin]

That´s a really nice frock coat. It might be just a touch too short, but it is nice. I think the 24th carried the 1861 Springfield rather than the Enfield but for reenacting purposes it´s a ¨tomato/tomahto¨ kind of thing.

 

[john alva'e]

The boots are very difficult to March in.

 

[FedericoFCavada]

Nice frock coat and Hardee hat with all the trimmings. Once I get the pre-1861 dark blue uniform trousers hemmed, I'll have to post myself in my "dressed" Hardee hat that includes Company B and "3" for the Bexar County, CSA Third Volunteer Infantry--Texas. Co. A was Anglo-Texan, Company B German-speaking, and so on. Company F were Spanish-speakers. Some others were totally mixed.

For duty inside Texas, they wore U.S. army uniform items looted, erm, uh, "surrendered" by Gen. Twiggs just before Lincoln's inauguration. For duty outside Texas, they had to put on gray outfits of course, lest they suffer "gray on gray" vs. "blue on blue..."

His boots are like full-on Marschieren stiefel jack-boots, no? I've seen some such boots in photos, but mostly the ankle-boot "Brogans."

 

[Irishtom29]

His boots are like full-on Marschieren stiefel jack-boots, no? I've seen some such boots in photos, but mostly the ankle-boot "Brogans."

Yes, in photos of western Federal infantry they're often wearing pull on boots, but usually not with the trousers tucked into them. Even today many rural Midwesterners like pull on work boots rather than those that use laces.

 

[FedericoFCavada]

Yes, in photos of western Federal infantry they're often wearing pull on boots, but usually not with the trousers tucked into them. Even today many rural Midwesterners like pull on work boots rather than those that use laces.

Ah yes, Red Wing work boots! Excellent boots, btw!

 

[Irishtom29]

Ah yes, Red Wing work boots! Excellent boots, btw!

Oh yeah, I wore the 877s, a popular boot with boilermakers and ironworkers. Those below were on their 3rd set of soles when I retired. My last few years in the trade I went out of the hall mostly as a foreman, GF or steward, so I was easy on the uppers. ;-)