SZCO Supplies Blue Union Civil War Kepi (Medium)

this simple history episode is brought to you by world of warships why were soldiers wearing American revolutionary uniforms in the Civil War the general perception of the American Civil War was that the Confederate Army wore a large variety of uniforms some would wear civilian clothing or anything they had captured and a lot of what they wore was simply produced with local butternut bark resulting in many of the Confederate uniforms being a yellow brown butternut color some early Confederate units wore dark blue uniforms which caused confusion at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 the Union forces meanwhile had some uniformity as they continued to wear a more professional blue uniform that was worn before the war by the undivided United States forces but often there were units on both sides which had uniforms heavily influenced by their individual heritage fashioned crazes or special