Caren Since during the civil war the states were volunteering forces, in the beginning each state dressed pretty much the way it wanted and many were militias converted to State regiments, when the federal government supplied the uniforms they would look like US Army issue. In the end all Union forces gravitated towards some form of the US Army uniform. As was mentioned the CSA were much more varied. Mike Caren Gimper wrote: > Thank you for letting me know...I'll go check it out...Caren > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "keith d bailey" > <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 7:00 AM > Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] Pictures of Civil War uniforms > > >> Look for the Library of Congress website. They might have a good bit >> on the >> subject. I know my wife looks there to find pics of clothing to >> emulate the >> style for the civilian re-enactment clothing. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >>> Can someone tell me where I can find a good site that shows what >>> civil war >> >> uniforms looked like??...I searched all over the internet and couldn't >> find >> one...I have a couple photos of a relative that is shown in military >> uniforms, and we're thinking it might be from the civil war... >> >>> >>> Thanks SO much for any help... >>> >>> Caren Gimper >>> Knotz Made >>> [email protected] >>> www.knotzmade.com >> >> >> >> ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== >> To search our list archives since 1996, go to >> http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> and enter Civil-War in the list name >> >> > > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To search our list archives since 1996, go to > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > and enter Civil-War in the list name > > >