Video – Curator Lecture Series 2011: All Indifferently Clad
Confederate Uniforms in The Charleston Museum’s Collections
by Grahame Long
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Curator of history, Grahame Long, discusses the uniforms preserved
within the collections of The Charleston Museum and how they reflected
the needs, means, and, in some cases, priorities of the individual
soldier who wore them. Early war uniforms frequently incorporated
ostentatious and non-functional ceremonial elements, but, as the war
dragged on, concerns for appearance quickly fell away and these aspects
were discarded. With the Confederacy struggling to supply its soldiers,
bare necessity determined the attire. By war’s end, preferences
concerning uniforms had drastically shifted so that merely having a
shirt and trousers was fortunate, a coat in the colder months was a
gift, and shoes an all out luxury.
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