Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1896 — Confederate Uniforms. [ARTICLE]

Confederate Uniforms.

Though the regulation uniforms of the Confederate army were gray, tho close of the war found nearly all of the men and some of the officers wearlpg homespun suits of various colors, or, at least, of various shades of gray. Socalled “butternut” suits were in vogue, whole regiments being thus uniformed. Some of the uniform cloth was got from England con. blockade runners: some was made at the-waolen mills scattered here and there-through the S'outW,'aifd' a great deal was'the product, of hand looms, worked by the women of. the South, There \>;as a “cadet gray” cloth, very AnVHsofr, which* was made at the Creus woolen factory In Richmond.