Government to clothe and equip their armies. However, this had no great affect on the southern Undoubtedly, there were periods of shortage that affected production However, chain of command was ceded to the Confederate Armies with Jefferson Davis as Commander-in-Chief who then approved decentralized strategies for his armies. State and the latter created distinctive patterns, trimmings and colors. Their Constitution celebrated the ideal of the independence of each Standardization and the independent judgments of their several states. These leaders were conflicted with the need for Themselves with Cadet gray and the range of uniform design necessary for Many of theĬonfederate leaders as well as Jefferson Davis, the President of theĬonfederate States, were graduates of West Point and were fully aware of the

Preparations were underway to equip the troops. Shot of the Civil War, an Act was passed by the Confederate Congress to form a Quartermasterĭepartment. When the men came to houses, the tale of starvation, often told, was theĬourtesy of Kentucky Military History Museum, Geoff Walden & Laura Cook To some extent anywhere, and thriftlessness is found in armies as well as at

Thriftless men would get barefooted and ragged and waste their rations Time it was not any more than falls to the lot of all soldiers in an activeĬampaign. In books written since the war, it seems to be the thing to represent theĬonfederate soldier as being in a chronic state of starvation and nakedness.ĭuring the last year of the war this was partially true, but previous to that They produced a pictorial history that heavily relied upon the images of the dead Confederate soldier whose uniform always reflected a tattered appearance.Ī contemporary member of General J.E.B. Resources (as described above) and portrayed by the image of 'Johnny Reb' Southerners oral history of the war as a defeat predicated on limited The rationale for the loss was first explained in the It was not that they were ultimately beaten inīattle not that their strategies failed not their generals wereįallible. TheirĬonclusion, based on their studies, is that the image helped explain That the Confederate records reveal facts to the contrary. However, recent examination ofĬonfederate documents, mainly in the early years, indicate thatĬonfederate shortfalls in resources were less significant when applied The Confederate states began the war with several impediments thatĭiminished financial resources, and a nascent industrial base would

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