"Supplier of the Confederacy" English Import Uniform Set

As part of the wide range of goods imported into the Southern Confederacy, finished garments made their way to the armies in the last year of the war. These jackets were primarily produced by the Peter Tait company and ranged in various patterns and trim styles. The first batches of the Tait Jackets would reach the Army of Northern Virginia in late 1864 and early 1865, however, these garments would arrive in the various coastal departments and Trans-Mississippi Theater early in 1864.

While the more famous Tait Jacket is more recognizable to the modern living historian, the Southern Confederacy equally imported large number of trousers for her forces in the final year of the conflict. 

Based on the surviving original, the trousers are made from English Army Cloth, trimmed in branch piping, closed with tin buttons, and have mule-ear pockets. While the jackets from Tait were machine sewn, the trousers that were imported appear to have been handsewn, with this feature being replicated. 

CS Issue wool shirt based on e on worn by Private John MacRae of Starr's Battery and worn during the North Carolina Campaign of 1865. The garment is typical of wool shirts madre from mixed blue wool flannel. There is some historical speculation that this cloth was imported by the Confederacy, but could also be domestic product. It is also believed that this may have been a product of the North Carolina State production goods.

While the famed Tait Jacket is most commonly associated with English imported clothing, the Confederacy imported a wide range of jackets, shirts, trousers, and overcoats. This reproduction is based on the only known example of such English overcoats imported from S. Isaac, Campbell throughout the war. Earliest shipments of overcoats occur in late 1862 and would continue with the availability of the Southern ports. Like many English goods, they made their ways into the hands of nearly all armies of the Confederacy. 

The coat is made from English Army Cloth, closed with English script I buttons, and lined in white wool flannel. The garment was hand sewn - but relatively crudely when compared to other imported goods. The coat has a standing collar that can be buttons, and has the European overocoat feature of the ability to pin the skirt of the coat up for active use (much like that of the M1858 US Dress Coat). 

The original coat does have one amazingly strange error in construction, that being that the original coat has two right arm sleeves. This appears to have been an error on the part of the original tailor and not part of any sort of intended patterning design.