First CSA Uniforms

[sonofmitch]

I was wondering if anyone knows how soon after the Civil War started were Confederate uniforms with buckles and buttons first furnished. Particularly in Texas where I'm located.
MITCH

 

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[SD51]

Mitch, saw this om Wikipedia...

"The Uniforms of the Confederate States military forces were the uniforms used by the Confederate Army and Navy during the American Civil War, from 1861 to 1865. The uniform initially varied greatly due to a variety of reasons, such as location, limitations on the supply of cloth and other materials, State regulations that were different from the standard regulations, and the cost of materials during the war.
Texas units, for example, had access to massive stocks of Federal blue uniforms, which were acquired after Confederate forces captured a Federal supply depot in San Antonio in 1861. These were worn as late as 1863.
Early on, servicemen sometimes wore combinations of uniform pieces, making do with what they could get from captured Union soldiers, or from Union and Confederate dead, or just wear civilian clothing.
There are some controversies about some of the exact details of a few of the uniforms, since some of the records were lost or destroyed after the Civil War ended".

I'm sure there's a ton of other information out there too.

 

[cammobunker]

Texas troops were wearing issued uniforms certainly as early as the battles of Pea Ridge and Shiloh in the spring of 1862, but issue was haphazard and not at all "uniform". It is a fact that Texas specific uniform items, buttons and such, existed and were issued by this date. It is also a fact that Texas troops wore captured Federal Blue quite a bit, and also what amounted to homemade copies of issue uniforms. Some troops never did receive a full uniform issue, and civilian clothing was used extensively under the "commutation" plan.