SI Neg. 2002-3852.02. Date: na....Dark blue wool fatigue jacket with a roll down collar, four buttons. Light blue kersey cloth trousers. Dark blue wool forage cap. Should belt with cartridge box and waist belt with percussion cap box and bayonet. Canteen.. At the start of the Civil War enlisted men in the U.S. Army were issued two coats. One was a frock coat which had a standing collar, reached almost to the knees and was closed in the front with nine brass eagle buttons. The frock coat was…

General Ulysses S. Grant - the south could use another visit from him! (The south sucks.)

American politician and military officer General Daniel Sickles, who served as a Union Army General in the American Civil War, wearing a Union Army uniform and hat in a studio portrait, location unspecified, United States, circa 1862.