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This article covers military uniforms during the American Civil War (1861–1865). During the years 1860–1865 there were three distinct types of uniform in use by the United States Armed Forces. Styles used were traditional similar to those used in the Napoleonic Wars, a regimental dress such as used during the American Revolutionary War and ...
Uniforms of the Union Army. A plate showing the uniform of a U.S. Army first sergeant, circa 1858, influenced by the French army. The military uniforms of the Union Army in the American Civil War were widely varied and, due to limitations on supply of wool and other materials, based on availability and cost of materials. [1]
Confederate uniforms, plate 172 of the Civil War Atlas. Each branch of the Confederate States armed forces had its own service dress and fatigue uniforms and regulations regarding them during the American Civil War, which lasted from April 12, 1861, until May 1865. The uniform initially varied greatly due to a variety of reasons such as ...
Uniforms for the War of 1812 were made in Philadelphia.. The design of early army uniforms was influenced by both British and French traditions. One of the first Army-wide regulations, adopted in 1789, prescribed blue coats with colored facings to identify a unit's region of origin: New England units wore white facings, southern units wore blue facings, and units from Mid-Atlantic states wore ...
Civil war uniforms for armoured units, [l] just as it was during World War 1, were defined by the rich use of black leather. Service caps with larger than normal crowns and squared visors in either leather or olive-khaki cloth were worn however, so were more typical caps of less exaggerated proportions; when not in use, goggles would often be ...
Corps badges in the American Civil War were originally worn by soldiers of the Union Army on the top of their army forage cap (kepi), left side of the hat, or over their left breast. The idea is attributed to Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny, who ordered the men in his division to sew a two-inch square of red cloth on their hats to avoid confusion on ...
Ranks were worn as chevrons on the right and left sleeves above the elbow. They were colored according to service branch: Infantry = Blue. Artillery = Red. Cavalry = Yellow. Engineers = Yellow (or gold) Ordnance = Crimson. Militia = Black (or gray) Enlisted rank structure.
At the start of the war, the entire United States Army consisted of 16,367 men of all branches, with infantry representing the vast majority of this total. [2] Some of these infantrymen had seen considerable combat experience in the Mexican–American War, as well as in the West in various encounters, including the Utah War and several campaigns against Indians.