ewtaylor
03-18-2008, 02:44 AM
Someone always brings up some type of justification for wearing FEDERAL SKY BLUE TROUSERS. I thought this thread could gather all the info we have RESEARCHED and that way we know what events its "kosher" to wear them at as Confederates. We know CS troops were issued light or sky blue trousrs from the Quartermaster system, but I want this to be about FEDERAL ISSUED SKY BLUE TROUSERS.
As you can see I highlighted the what I want this thread to be about. Let's not make this a flame war or hijack session.
thanks,
ew taylor
This was written on Thursday, Sept 18, 1862.
“When our men were being sent off we couldn’t help comparing them, so clean and gentlemanly looking and looking so well fed to the half starved, half clothed, dirty wretches who guarded them. It looks so strange to see some of the dirty rebels dressed in our soldiers uniforms and they seem ashamed of it too, for if any one remarks about it they hang their heads and hurry by pretending not to hear.”
And this on Oct 4 1862
“A great many of the secesh soldiers wear the clothes that were found at the quartermaster’s and the hospitals when our own men left. The Union ladies teased them everywhere they went, about the “Lincoln britches” and wearing the “livery of Lincoln hirelings” and would pretend sometimes to think they were our men and ask them if they had been paroled and when they were going to be exchanged. One day when a lady had teased one in this way he turned to her and said Ma’am if you knew how much these pants cost us you wouldn’t call them “Lincoln britches” for we didn’t get them for nothing. We had to pay $5 a pair to the quartermaster and so we have a good right to them. A good many of them have had black stripes put down the sides.
The Diary of Frances Peter, Lexington, Kentucky
This was after the battle of Richmond, Ky and before the battle of Perryville.
As you can see I highlighted the what I want this thread to be about. Let's not make this a flame war or hijack session.
thanks,
ew taylor
This was written on Thursday, Sept 18, 1862.
“When our men were being sent off we couldn’t help comparing them, so clean and gentlemanly looking and looking so well fed to the half starved, half clothed, dirty wretches who guarded them. It looks so strange to see some of the dirty rebels dressed in our soldiers uniforms and they seem ashamed of it too, for if any one remarks about it they hang their heads and hurry by pretending not to hear.”
And this on Oct 4 1862
“A great many of the secesh soldiers wear the clothes that were found at the quartermaster’s and the hospitals when our own men left. The Union ladies teased them everywhere they went, about the “Lincoln britches” and wearing the “livery of Lincoln hirelings” and would pretend sometimes to think they were our men and ask them if they had been paroled and when they were going to be exchanged. One day when a lady had teased one in this way he turned to her and said Ma’am if you knew how much these pants cost us you wouldn’t call them “Lincoln britches” for we didn’t get them for nothing. We had to pay $5 a pair to the quartermaster and so we have a good right to them. A good many of them have had black stripes put down the sides.
The Diary of Frances Peter, Lexington, Kentucky
This was after the battle of Richmond, Ky and before the battle of Perryville.