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"The force in our front is Jenkin's Brigade composed of the 3rd Ark.Regt., 6th So.Car. Regt., and the 1st, 4th, 5th Texas Regts....The Carolinian's uniform is a bluish grey..." The Rough Side of War, the Civil War Journal of Chelsey A. Mosman, p. 94.
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"The army has drawn comfortable winter clothing & blankets, the coats are light and dark gray (mostly w/ blue collars & cuffs)..."
Civil War Letters of Washington Ives, 4th Fla., by Jim R. Cabaniss (Tallahassee, FL, 1987), p.47
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I know of two artillery Tait jackets, one like this with only the red collar and another with both collar and epaulettes in red. This one is from our #K1 kersey. Of course, we also make the infantry version with or without epaulettes.
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Right: Two views of a North Carolina jacket based on the Tucker jacket. This garment was one of the samples made for "Cold Mountain."
Conjectural reconstruction of Henry Hollyday, 2nd Maryland Battalion, March 1865.
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"You wrote to me sometimes since to know whether I wanted a coat or a jacket this winter, & also expressed the belief that you would have to have my suit dyed black or brown...I see clothes in the army dyed a light color which resembles grey at a distance. I wish that you could get it dyed that color. Any other color is preferable to brown or black as neither resembles grey."
Letters & Recollections of a Confederate Soldier, by Robert David Jamison, Co. D, 45th Tenn. Inf., p. 102
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This four button style jacket is patterned after one in a county historical society here in Ohio and is virtually identical to jackets in the Museum of the Confederacy collection (the T.V. Brooke jacket), one in the NPS collection at Gettysburg and another at the Smithsonian. All are made up in light colored wool/ cotton fabrics but no two of the fabrics are quite the same. This one is of #9 jeans. NOTE: This is NOT a sack coat!
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Murphree Jacket, front and side views.
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