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How did civil war uniforms look?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The Union Forces wore dark Blue and the Confederates Grey, However there where exceptions to this. At this time people did not believe in Camouflage and wanted the enemy to see them so that they would be scared and might run away.

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