The basic uniform, so called battledress consisted of woolen khaki blouse with insignia and the same kind of trousers worn along with black leather boots with gaiters.
Before the war there had been few cotton factories, woolen mills, arsenals and machine shops south of Maryland — a fact of which all Southerners were proud.
One morning years ago, an angry customer stormed into the office of Julian F. Detmer, founder of the Detmer Woolen Company, which later became the world's largest distributor of woolens to the tailoring trade.