Uniforms of volunteer militia of union and confederate states

Hi there,
I am looking for books and web sources for Uniforms of volunteer militia of union and confederate states, please. Can anyone help me please?
Regards
Shams

As you probably already know, at the out-break of the civil war the Confederacy with the exception of a few regiments didn’t really have any formal dress regulations.  Add to that the number of regiments and each regimental variations within the regiment and it could be thousands of different variation.  Especially since a of the Confederacy records were destroyed during the war and the some of the remaining has over time been lost.  For example, states made uniforms for other states, so in the beginning you had different regiments in the same uniform and other regiments in what they left home in.  
With many of the images of the civil war without any records for them it’s quite hard to say, unless the image has a soldiers details, what the regiment is or what colour trims the uniform had.  Then some regiment that did exist within states pre war, went to war for the Confederacy weary their pre war Federal uniform.
The Union army isn’t quite as bad as the Union army seems to be a little better documented.

Web sources, google search should bring up a few sites, one it's always pushing is Pinterest.

Just a few of the many titles available are;

Uniforms of the American Civil War (Blandford colour series) -Haythornthwaite.
Haythornthwaite’s book is also available under a different publisher.

Don Troiani's Regiments and Uniforms of the Civil War.
There’s also a few titles about the Civil War by Don Troiani.

Combat Uniforms of the Civil War - Mark Lloyed.

American Civil War Infantry 1970 - Michael Blake.

Osprey have quite a few titles covering the civil war.

Brassey’s have a couple of titles covering the civil war.
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Confederates of the Rutledge Rifles, a Tennessee light artillery battery.
A group photo taken at Nashville shows the early war problems with uniformity of dress.
Their commander, Captain A.M. Rutledge is leaning on the 6 pounder cannon.
If this picture was unknown,  I wouldn’t have any idea that they were all in the same regiment.
The other picture is of Confederate cavalry.
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Both images are taken from Time Life Book's, Civil War Series.

There doesn't appear to be any interest here, so I'll just ask if you have 'Uniform and Dress of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States'. Richmond 1861. It's the dress regulations published by the Confederacy.
It's for the regular army and navy but if you haven't seen it, then it may still be of interest to you.

It was available on archive org but since Daisy have taken over the site, nothing is now easily found.

Here's a link for the army regulations that still seems to be available for download.
https://archive.org/details/62430330R.nlm.nih.gov

Something like this, a couple of pages with a brief description.

https://ia800206.us.archive.org/27/items/ordersofmilitary01miss/ordersofmilitary01miss.pdf

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From left to right.
A photograph of Colonel Carnot Posey of the 16th Mississippi Infantry.
Mississippi and Georgia uniform regulations substituted their own symbol for the rank of colonel, Mississippi a gold crescent and Georgia a silver Phoenix rising from flame.

A photograph of a Louisiana volunteer identified by his state belt plate.  Like Mississippi, Louisiana  generally supplied troops only with arms and accoutrements.  Uniforms were left to the individual company.

Member of the Petersburg Riflemen, the uniform is similar to the Federal uniform although it has gold trim on the collar and cuffs and a French style kepi.

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Pre war Georgia Hussars from Savannah Georgia.   Unknown Georgian wears a jacket trimmed with tape.

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Officers of the West Augusta Guard, a militia company from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Dark blue uniforms from the Federal army as in the Virginia militia regulations.

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From; American Civil War Cavalry, Michael Blake.

1. Hampton’s Legion, South Carolina Volunteers 1861.
Uniform trimmed in cavalry colour and hat with plume. Red vest and cravat was a personal choice.

2.  1st Texas Cavalry, Hood’s Own 1861.
As with most Texas units they wore a variation the the CSA Regulations. They also generally used the ‘Lone Star’ device on their uniforms, here on the buckle.

3.  8th Texas cavalry, Terry’s Texas Rangers (1st Texas Rangers) 1864.
This unit wore a variety of uniforms, Hat could be black or grey.  Jacket could be grey, brown or blue, with plain collar and cuffs or scarlet.  Trousers could be grey, blue or brown with or without seam stripes.  More often than not they could be seen in captured Union uniforms trimmed with scarlet or just civilian clothing.

The uniform should have been, Grey kepi with yellow base band, light grey shell jacket with yellow collar and cuff, darker grey trousers with yellow seam stripe.

4. 28th Texas Cavalry, Debray’s Mounted Riflemen 1861.
It’s not certain if this uniform was issued to the whole unit.

5.  Beaufort District Troop, South Carolina 1862.
Hussar style in grey with black trim.

Plate 4. from; American Civil War Cavalry, Michael Blake.

1.  Charleston Light Dragoons, South Carolina Volunteer Militia 1860.
Dress Uniform, a grey fatigue uniform was issued in 1860.
2.  1st Virginia Cavalry, Black Horse Cavalry 1861.
Hussar style with black trim although NCO rank chevrons appear to have been yellow and black shoulder straps were not worn by all men.  Black horses at the beginning of the war were replaced by what was available.
3.  Sergeant, 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles 1861.
Confederate regulation uniform with added Indian touches.
4.  CSA Cavalryman 1862-1865.
Regulation fatigue jacket and trousers with captured Union kepi.
5. CSA Officer 1862-1865
A variation on the regulations with an additional strap to support the weight of the sabre.

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Many Virginia volunteers during 1861 didn’t have any uniform other than a cap, common colours were dark blue and green with black peak and chinstrap.

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Ambrotypes and tintypes photographs were reversed. The belt should be ‘TS’ not ‘SL’ for this Tennessee volunteer.

Both images from; Confederate Forces of the American Civil War - P. Katcher

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Officers of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers (Turney’s). Captain N.C. Davies and Lt. Sugg.
Dark blue frock coats, Davis wears a US style black hat and Sugg a kepi.
From Johny Reb The Uniform of the Confederate Army 1861-1865 – Jenson.

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Sgt. Benjamin Barton, 8th Georgia Volunteers.

From; Jonny Reb The Uniform of the Confederate Army 1861-1865 – Jensen.

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Left, Cross Anchor Volunteers, 3rd South Carolina Infantry, volunteered for 12 months state service in 1861.
The 3rd Carolina received roundabout jackets and pants during July/August of 1861.

Right, William A. Penden, dress grey uniform of the Kemper Guard organized in Kemper County on June 13 1861.  
The unit was designated Co K, 6th Battalion Mississippi Infantry.
The grey cloth pattern 1851 cap is based on the National Guard shako.

From MAA 423.

Battle shirt,
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sbintayab wrote:Hi there,
I am looking for books and web sources for Uniforms of volunteer militia of union and confederate states, please. Can anyone help me please?
Regards
Shams

Since you've been back and haven't answered my query, I must assume that you don't want further posts.
Regards.
WF