"Block-I" buttons (both foreign and domestic makes) were the most common being issued on uniform jackets out of the Richmond Depot by this time. Also evidence of captured Federal Eagle buttons also found on some surviving jackets and noted in period photos. Further down the chain we can occasionally find examples of wooden and flat gilt buttons being purchased off local commercial markets and used on uniforms to fill temporary gaps... Also noting that there were some excess uniforms stocks coming up out of North Carolina and Columbus shipped up and being distributed at random to troops in the ANV in the spring and summer of 1864...

Wises Brigade had previously been serving most of the preceding year in South Carolina up until May 1864... They had previously been issued replacement items out of the regional depot supply system which would have been Charleston or maybe Columbia SC... Many of the units brought up or back from the deeper south received new or replacement issues around May-June 1864, which would have been from Richmond.. Records are incomplete and too fragmented to determine which the majority may have had exactly in June 1864...

Armies run on paperwork... Confederate Army was no different... however... majority of the records that would give us more detailed information such as company books.. requisitions... and regimental QM returns Every item requested and issued was accounted for and whom received it on what date.... Each soldier had a clothing allotment.... if you didn't get something you had a credit on your account... if you went through more than what was allotted.. the item was charged against your next pay.... Unfortunately most of these records didnt survive.... or at best very fragmented... records and accounts sent to Richmond were mostly destroyed by fire at the end of the war.

Majority of what did survive were copies of secondary invoices, receipts, lists, and vouchers that had been signed, turned in and sent back up the QM paperwork chain... These are somewhat like what today we would call a packing slip... its not the original order, nor gives the same level of details the original might have notated... only numbers of a given item usually as requested by a Company or Regiment... not to whom it was intended to be issued to on these documents... The Regimental or designated Company QM or clerks books would be the ones reflecting that data... which mostly didn't survive... If they did most are still lost in the piles of undocumented and unsorted masses of captured papers still in the archives... 150 years later and historians are still trying to identify and figure them out...