No finer description of this style of jacket can be found other than the one in Les Jensen's article on Confederate Jackets...
"The last group of jackets to be covered here are all associated with units of the Army of Tennessee that were assigned to Richard Taylor's Department of Alabama after the abortive Nashville campaign. Taylor noted the efforts to resupply these troops in his memoirs as occurring in February 1865.
All of these jackets are made of woolen jean, with a six-piece body and two-piece sleeves. All have linings of cotton osnaburg, and all have collars made of dark blue wool jeans, (dark blue woolen weft on a brown cotton warp). All have five button fronts, and all have one exterior pocket, though they vary from one side of the jacket front to the other. Two have small single belt loops, shaped like shoulder straps on the left side only. One is missing the original buttons, one is missing all its buttons, but the remaining two are equipped with wooden buttons like those seen on the Columbus jackets. Taylor's main source of supply, particularly to troops on the Meridian, Mississippi- Mobile, Alabama line appears to have been the large depot operating at Columbus, Mississippi. In July, 1864, the Quartermaster there, Major W.J. Anderson, was disbursing approximately $130,000 per month. He boasted that "...The clothing material is excellent and the workmanship superior to any I have seen made elsewhere..." The depot at Columbus was operating as late as November 1864, but by 15 March 1865, Anderson was being listed as a "Manufacturing Q.M." at Demopolis, Alabama. It is therefore possible that the jackets described here were made in either Columbus, Mississippi or Demopolis, Alabama."
Made of our own jean cloth custom dyed to replicate the common defect of color banding as seen in originals, and custom woven collar fabric is of indigo blue jean cloth. Closed with our own two-hole buttons of Pennsylvania walnut. Each jacket is a one of a kind as the banding is different on each one, each jacket has one inside pocket and one outside pocket with much hand stitching. These are vegetable dyed and the color will fade after some exposure to sunlight.
No finer description of this style of jacket can be found other than the one in Les Jensen's article on Confederate Jackets...
"The last group of jackets to be covered here are all associated with units of the Army of Tennessee that were assigned to Richard Taylor's Department of Alabama after the abortive Nashville campaign. Taylor noted the efforts to resupply these troops in his memoirs as occurring in February 1865.
All of these jackets are made of woolen jean, with a six-piece body and two-piece sleeves. All have linings of cotton osnaburg, and all have collars made of dark blue wool jeans, (dark blue woolen weft on a brown cotton warp). All have five button fronts, and all have one exterior pocket, though they vary from one side of the jacket front to the other. Two have small single belt loops, shaped like shoulder straps on the left side only. One is missing the original buttons, one is missing all its buttons, but the remaining two are equipped with wooden buttons like those seen on the Columbus jackets. Taylor's main source of supply, particularly to troops on the Meridian, Mississippi- Mobile, Alabama line appears to have been the large depot operating at Columbus, Mississippi. In July, 1864, the Quartermaster there, Major W.J. Anderson, was disbursing approximately $130,000 per month. He boasted that "...The clothing material is excellent and the workmanship superior to any I have seen made elsewhere..." The depot at Columbus was operating as late as November 1864, but by 15 March 1865, Anderson was being listed as a "Manufacturing Q.M." at Demopolis, Alabama. It is therefore possible that the jackets described here were made in either Columbus, Mississippi or Demopolis, Alabama."
Made of our own jean cloth custom dyed to replicate the common defect of color banding as seen in originals, and custom woven collar fabric is of indigo blue jean cloth. Closed with our own two-hole buttons of Pennsylvania walnut. Each jacket is a one of a kind as the banding is different on each one, each jacket has one inside pocket and one outside pocket with much hand stitching. These are vegetable dyed and the color will fade after some exposure to sunlight.
