CivilWar: Graphs & Charts. Union & Confederate Officer's Jackets. Union After the fall of Fort Sumter, the United States War Department was unable to make enough uniforms fast enough.
The northern states were told to dress their own companies. Some states could not get enough dark blue cloth. Some of the blue cloth faded to gray when the dye washed out. Many soldiers were given gray over shirts until the blue coats could be made. New York was able to give all soldiers a dark blue woolen jacket with 8 state seal buttons. It was in 1862 that the Union Army made strict rules about uniforms. Confederate Bet you think I'm wrong on the color! When the Civil War started in 1861, the Confederate Army did not have one style of uniform for all soldiers. At first uniforms were made of undyed wool. Some states followed state regulations. In Alabama, the governor had a factory make the first gray uniforms. Uniforms of the Civil War. The American Civil War. Battlefields of the Civil War. SAT Subject Test: U.S. History: Toward War. Toward War Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the election of 1860 began a chain of events that pushed the nation rapidly toward civil war.
Secession During the 1860 election, some Southerners threatened secession pending Lincoln’s victory, even though he promised that while he would forbid the extension of slavery into the territories, he would not interfere with slavery in the South. In December 1860, soon after Lincoln’s victory, a special South Carolina convention voted unanimously for secession. By February 1861, six more Southern states followed suit: Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
Lincoln refused to recognize the confederacy and declared the secession “legally void.” However, the nation’s rift only widened in the early months of Lincoln’s presidency. The Confederate attack on federal troops at Fort Sumter sparked the secession of the Upper South and the commitment of the North to war . Mobilizing for War Each side predicted an early victory for itself.
Glossary of Civil War Terms. Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints - About this Collection - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. All images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All This online collection provides access to about 7,000 different views and portraits made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and its immediate aftermath.
The images represent the original glass plate negatives made under the supervision of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner as well as the photographic prints in the Civil War photographs file in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room. These negatives and prints are sometimes referred to as the Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eaton Collection to indicate the previous owners. The Library purchased the negatives in 1943. Search tip for this collection: Try putting in very few search terms, particularly when searching for people (for example, try just the person's last name). Many additional Civil War images are in other collections, including drawings, prints, and photograph albums to name a few.
View a slide show of samples. Andrew J. The Civil War . In the Classroom . Using the Series . Discussion Questions.