This essay discusses the uniforms and accoutrements of the Civil War by focusing on publications, primary sources like museum collections and web resources for the various sub topics including general publications, buttons, image sources, Confederate accoutrements, Confederate uniforms, Union accoutrements, Union badges and insignia, Union uniforms, museums and more. Shorter surveys are available through Ron Field’s Uniforms of the Civil War and artist historian Don Troiani’s Regiments and Uniforms of the Civil War. The volumes are arranged by topics and each individual state’s variation of issued uniforms, accoutrements and equipment is identified. The illustrated three volume work is enhanced by the drawings and research of museum curators, artists and historians: Maria Todd, George Woodbridge, Lee Wallace, Jr. The best single study about Civil War uniforms and equipment is by a founder of the Company of Military Historians and former West Point Museum Director, Fred Todd: American Military Equipage, 1851-1872.
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