Was the North vs. South civil war made visual by opposing colors?

Question

I thought that the South was associated with red and that the North was associated with blue . . . ??? . . . maybe I'm just getting confused with democrates vs. republicans . . . . . can someone clarify for me please?

Answer 1

Union soldiers were outfitted with heavy, cotton uniforms dyed a midnight blue. The Confederate Army would usually wear cotton uniforms that were dyed grey although butternut (sort of a tannish-brown) was alittle more predominant. For the most part Confederate soldiers wore whatever they could lay their hands on or remove from the corpses of both their own or Union soldiers. Shoes especially as they were in terribly short suply for the south. As a matter of fact, the battle for Gettysburg started because the Confedrate Army was on their way to claim a cache of shoes that were being stored there by the Union Quartermaster Corps.
You just seem to be confusing the colors of the Confederate Flag (the national flag and the starts and bars...the battle flag) which the predominant color was red with the blue of the Union soldier's uniform.

Answer 2

North was Blue and the South was Grey. although if you look at fighting pictures or war photos it is hard to tell with how dingy some of the uniforms were. By that I mean that the South didn't always have uniforms a lot of them were dirt poor farmers and hill folk who just wore whatever they could find.

Answer 3

The North wore Blue wool, Enlisted men wore either a type of "sack" coat, the officers wore "Frock Coats and sometimes had dark blue trousers, the enlisted men sometimes wore "Kersey Blue". The uniforms were trimmed in Red for Artillery, light Blue for infantry, Yellow for Cavalry. The Union officers wore gold epaulets on their shoulders.
The South wore Grey Wool. Some of the western theater wore a butternut "jean wool" (half cotton half wool) which was sometimes dyed grey but faded to "butternut" in the sun. They wore grey wool trousers or even "kersey blue" if they found a Yankee that didn't need them anymore. Toward the end of the War, they dressed in anything they could get their hands on as the blockade had severely depleted their stores of fabric, boots and other sorely needed supply. The services wore the same colors as the Yankees, Red, Blue and Yellow and the officers wore the same unless they were General Staff. Then they wore Buff Trim. They also wore the "French Knot" in gold soutache on their sleeves, commonly referred to as "Chicken Guts".
Both sides wore Kepis, (hats) but the Southern soldiers often wore a "slouch" hat that kept the sun and rain off their face.

Answer 4

The north was indeed blue uniformed. The south wore gray uniforms with red trim. The norths blue uniforms were trimmed in white and gold.

Answer 5

Blue and gray were the associated colors. Guess who's battle flag my avatar is, its from the Civil War...

Answer 6

You're close! The North and South had their own flags. Look it up!

Answer 7

the north had blue and south had grey uniforms