For the connoisseur or the newcomer to the study of military uniforms there are few more evocative subjects than the American Civil War. In those terrible years, in which the North fought the South, more American lives were lost than in any other conflict in which the US has been involved. World War II, Korea, Vietnam - none compared with the carnage of the American Civil War. For the military historian, the enormous variety of uniforms and equipment to be seen on the battlefield and behind the lines provide endless opportunities for modelling, re-enactment and wargaming. Wrongly christened the ragged rebels, the soldiers of the Confederate States' of America were as finely equipped as their enemies as this book details. It provides a state-by-state analysis of uniform issuance from initial local supply through to state quarter-master manufacture for South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland.