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Basic Federal Guidelines
Infantry | Cavalry | Artillery
General standards for all Federal participants. Click above for details for your specific arm.
- Uniform
- Insignia: correct period crossed cannon, crossed sabres as the case may be. Infantry should refrain from using the branch insigina on headgear.
- regimental number
- company letter
- For infantry and artillery: red (1st division) 6th corps badge.
- Headwear
- Forage Cap
- Finely woven dark blue or royal blue wool (not navy blue) with painted leather brim and chin strap.
- Plain US regulation, small size buttons. Black or brown polished cotton liner.
- Slouch & other non issue headgear - Period types only!
- Sewn-on edge binding.
- Proper lining & sweat band.
- Made of fine wool felt without a `fuzzy' appearance.
- Medium to dark gray, medium to dark brown, or black, with black preferred.
- Hat brass: unadorned, crossed sabres, regimental numeral, company letter.
- Hardee turned slouch.
- 1/4 inch ribbon at base of crown.
- 2 rows of stitching on brim.
- shellacked with proper label inside.
- leather chin strap (optional for cavalry)
- Hat brass: unadorned, regimental numeral, company letter, branch badge.
- Forage Cap
- Coat
- Fatigue blouse:
- Wool flannel with a visible diagonal weave (wale) in the fabric.
- A shade between a medium and dark blue color (not navy blue).
- A short collar, faced lapels and cuffs.
- Four evenly spaced US eagle buttons should fit into hand-worked buttonholes.
- Sleeves should have a small, scalloped vent in the rear of the cuff.
- Unlined versions have all seams flat-felled.
- Lined versions should have a one-piece body lining of wool or wool/cotton weave and a sleeve lining of muslin.
- Fatigue blouse:
- Trousers
- Made of sky-blue kersey-weave wool.
- Top of the waist band should reach the wearer's navel.
- Thin, tapering waist band.
- Five button fly.
- Yoke in back.
- Raised back.
- Side pockets that start below the waist-band.
- Right-side watch pocket.
- Facings on vented cuffs.
- All buttonholes & grommets finished by hand.
- Shirts
- Domet or gray flannel US Issue Shirts
- Domet flannel shirt will have three tin buttons: one at the neck and one at each cuff.
- Domet flannel is a cotton warp and wool weft, off-white in color.
- Gray wool flannel shirt will have 4 or 5 buttons, with two or three on a placket front and one on each cuff.
- Civillian Pattern Shirt
- Made of 100 percent natural materials in woven check or plaid material, or with a printed geometric pattern on them.
- Small metal, bone, wood, shell, or mother-of-pearl buttons.
- Fall down collar or a banded collar, with or without a detachable collar.
- One, two or no pockets.
- Domet or gray flannel US Issue Shirts
- Suspenders/Braces: A civilian pattern of proper period materials and attachments.
- Drawers
- Canton flannel, cotton flannel, wool knit, and wool flannel all acceptable.
- Button closure.
- White, natural, colored acceptable.
- Footwear
- Socks: of solid-color yarn: off-white, gray, buff, blue, or bluish-gray. Wool, cotton or a wool/cotton union.
- Shoes: Issue brogans with pegged or sewn soles. Heel plates optional.
- Boots: single piece vamp with pegged or sewn soles. Heel plates optional.
- Insignia: correct period crossed cannon, crossed sabres as the case may be. Infantry should refrain from using the branch insigina on headgear.
- Accouterments
- Haversack: US issue tarred.
- Canteen: any Federal issue type.
- cotton strap or undyed leather strap with iron roller buckle and leather safe.
- Wool covered with jean, or blanket material - bull’s-eye types may be uncovered.
- Blanket: Gray/brown US Issue with black/brown stripes properly woven.
- Shelter half: Cotton drill or light canvas with hand sew grommets and buttonholes, bone or paperback-tin buttons.
- Gum blanket and/or poncho: Black rubberized cloth with reinforced edges and small grommets.
website: GTodd
October 19, 2004