The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of troops wearing the gray and butternut of the CS regulations and quartermaster issues. By contrast, this book examines the variety of uniforms worn by the Virginia and Arkansas militia and volunteers brought together in the Confederate field armies, and the continuing efforts to clothe them as wear-and-tear gradually reduced this wide range of uniforms. A mass of information from contemporary documents is illustrated with rare early photographs and meticulous color reconstructions.

Ron Field is an internationally acknowledged expert on US military history. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1982, he taught History at Piedmont High School in California from 1982 to 1983, and was then Head of History at the Cotswold School in Bourton-on-the-Water, UK, until his retirement in 2007. In 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, based in Washington, DC, and was awarded its Emerson Writing Award in 2013.

Virginia: Antebellum volunteer militia, 1861 · State uniforms, 1858-61 · Virginia volunteers, 1861-62 · Confederate States volunteers, 1861-62 · State-issue clothing, 1861-63 · Uniforms provided by Ladies' Aid Societies · Arms & equipage · Arkansas: · Antebellum volunteer militia · Confederate States volunteers, 1861-62 · State-issue clothing, 1861-63 · Clothing provided by Ladies' Aid Societies · Arms & equipage