The union wore blue as the confederates wore grey.
The color of the Union flag was red, white, and blue. It looks similar to the modern American flag.
These were ex-slaves. At first, they just performed fatigues for the Northern units. But gradually they were allowed into uniform and formed black regiments and brigades.
Freed slaves followed the Union armies because they had nothing else to do, and ended up working for them, some of them in uniform.
Many slaves were liberated by Union troops fighting in the South, so there was a labor shortage. These liberated slaves were used by the Union armies to perform manual labour, and presently some of them were put in uniform. (Low-ranking white soldiers realized that this could speed their promotion.) Near the end, the Confederates finally agreed to put slaves in uniform.
By paying a substitute - a bad system. Who were these substitutes? Why were they not already in uniform? Obviously because they had deserted.
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Union uniforms were blue; Confederate uniforms were gray.
Union uniforms were a dark blue.
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Blue, like always
Gray was Confederates Navy blue was Union Soldiers
the union soldiers wore blue uniforms, and the confederates usually wore grey
Blue, the confederates wore grey.
the confederate were a tanish gray color.. the union were a dark blue.. confederate believed in slavery.. union did not approve.. ANSWER. They wore gray uniforms but often also the "butternut" of homespun dyes.
In the American Civil War, the uniform of the Union was dark blue in color, and the uniform of the Confederacy was grey. It is often described as a war of the blue and the grey.
The Union uniform was blue, the Confederacy uniform was gray. Other than the color, the clothing was quite simple and ordinary. Uniforms were not elaborate.
depends on the union