American Civil War - The Regiment from country roads West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River

Just a quick update. The next regiment I’ve completed was one from Louisiana. Again I wanted to keep it simple and have a uniform regiment, this time all in a light grey.

I later saw a picture of a Louisiana regiment re-enactment that was all in grey and read an interesting article that talked about how the lack of uniformity in the confederate army is over-exaggerated. So naturally i’m glad the decision I made to make things easier for me is also somewhat historically accurate.

Reading this and doing by my own research I’ve come to the conclusion that each regiment had a uniform, depending on where it was from that was usually butternut and/or grey with a few more exotic uniforms. It also seems that the regiments will start off uniform and will degrade over time as supply of replacement uniforms was hard to do, so soldiers supplemented/replaced theirs with civilian clothes or pieces taken from Union Soldiers. I’d also like to see more bare footed soldiers in the Perry Plastics as this seems a common condition on campaign.

Additionally the hats used seemed to be the preference of the individual wherther they used the cap, the forager hat or a brimmed hat.

Random fact I came across was the Union army standardised the sizing of mens clothes at this time and shoe size so that the factories making uniforms could tailor them to these standards.

I’ll likely explain the focus of this project, it will be based loosely around Antietam and Jacksons Corp on the left. I’m deciding on the specific brigades Im using and  what infantry and cavalry regiments and artillery batteries I will be representing in my project.