Larry Shields
1st Alabama Uniforms
Mon Jul 16 02:45:56 2001


This might help. It's from
HISTORY
OF THE
FIRST REGIMENT
ALABAMA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
C. S. A.
BY
EDWARD YOUNG McMORRIES, Ph. D.
A Private of the Perote Guards, Co. C., 1861, Co. G.,
1862-1865; and an Original Member of both
the Company and Regiment.
MONTGOMERY, ALA.:
THE BROWN PRINTING CO., PRINTERS AND BINDERS.
1904.

UNIFORMS.
On reaching Barrancas no two companies were uniformed alike. As a rule each company had two suits, full dress and fatigue. The former was made of high grade material, that of the Perote Guards costing $50 a suits. It was full dress style, heavy gray cassimere, trimmed with blue, three rows of buttons in front of coat, and red plumes tipped with white. This suit the company bought at its organization, each member paying for his own uniform. The fatigue suit of the same company presented by the ladies of Perote on our leaving home was of very dark cassimere, heavy weight, trimmed with light gray, single row of buttons and frock skirts.
About the first of July we were furnished by the ladies of Alabama with a regimental uniform. This was made of blue jeans, frock skirt reaching down to our knees, and with a single row of button in front.

CHAPTER III.
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PORT HUDSON CAMPAIGN, 1862-1863.
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ORDERED TO PORT HUDSON, AND CAMPAIGN THERE.
The regiment was armed with old flint-lock muskets.
Our daily rations were "blue beef" and "corn bread," to which were occasionally added sweet potatoes and syrup. The ladies of Mobile presented each member of the regiment with a full suit of clothes, including overcoats and blankets; comfortable log cabins were erected for winter quarters; and the regiment was in fine health and spirits

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