Most were all shades of Grey coats on Grey trousers with Grey kepi (artillery units wore Red) or (with mostly cavalry units) Black or Gray felt or straw stag hats , but some of the Zouaves wore Grey or Black coats on either Red or White and Grey stripped "chasseur" trousers with Red or Black fez or beret. The piping color of their collar and the outer stripes on their trousers differed according to the military affilliation, such as, Light Blue for infantry, Yellow for cavalry, Red for artillery, and Black for medical branch.
Some units, however, did not take the correct color for their uniforms, such as the 8th Texas Cavalry, aka Terry's Texas Rangers. They wore Red (artillery) pipped coats and trousers with grey kepis and stag hats, even though they were cavalry.
Early in the war some Confederates wore a butternut colored style uniform.
Confederate uniforms were grey. The Union Army wore dark blue.
The color(other than gray) most often mentioned is "butternut" which was a shade of brown.The color was made by boiling nutshells,which would release the pigment(color), and then the fabric was immersed in it.
The Union Army always wore blue uniforms, while the Confederate Army always wore gray uniforms. The Confederate Army, however, were not as wealthy as the Union Army, and therefore couldn't always afford uniforms for all their soldiers. Many Confederates wore their own clothes during combat.
At the beginning of the US Civil War, some of the the Confederate army uniforms were a butternut color. Grey was introduced as soon as these color uniforms could be produced. The US army already had blue uniforms and remained with that color.
The majority of the soldiers wore dark blue jackets with light blue pants. US Sharpshooters wore green uniforms.
Union uniforms were blue; Confederate uniforms were gray.
Their uniforms were grey.
Confederate uniforms were grey. The Union Army wore dark blue.
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Soldiers wore uniforms during the civil war so that they would know who was the union and confederate.
The Southern (Confederate) Army wore grey uniforms.
They wore gray uniforms
During the American Civil War, soldiers on both sides of the conflict earned (or suffered from) nicknames of various kinds. Because of the "butternut" color of their uniforms, Confederate soldiers could be called "Butternuts," in addition to many other nicknames heard during the war and beyond.
the uniorm was gray, blue, and it had some yellow in it.
The confederate soldiers (of the new Confederacy of the United States) wore grey uniforms versus the union soldiers who wore blue uniforms.
Confederate uniforms, gray wool uniforms