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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike M. View Post
    All this being said, it occurs to me that if someone wanted to wear tartan, the most historic way would be as a vest. Confederate troops were especially prone to mixing civilian clothes in with their uniforms, and a civilian-cut vest in tartan would not be too out of place.
    I did that at my wedding in '96.



    The wife & I had an 1860's themed wedding. I wore a civilian-cut vest in Gordon tartan, while the wife wore a gown based upon one worn by John Hunt Morgan's bride. Our piper wore a Black Watch uniform (circa 1860 East Indian campaign).

    I later wore the vest with my CS uniform, and even with my 20th century clothing.
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    Thanks Terry for the articles & the great Pics!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike M. View Post
    All this being said, it occurs to me that if someone wanted to wear tartan, the most historic way would be as a vest. Confederate troops were especially prone to mixing civilian clothes in with their uniforms, and a civilian-cut vest in tartan would not be too out of place.
    Of course, one would need to research their tartan, to see if it even existed in the 1860s.

    A painting from the Mexican War (1846-48) by artist John L. Magee, depicts a Scottish-American family receiving the news that a member of the family has been killed in combat. One gentleman in the painting is wearing a cape of some kind, with a tartan lining, that almost looks like a Fraser tartan. The painting may be seen on pages 166-167 of David Nevin's The Mexican War, which was part of the Time-Life Old West series.

    Certainly any display of ethnic heritage would be like this one -- discreet. Anti-Immigrant feelings are high in the 1840s and 50s, and even the 79th received some criticism from Nativists for adopting "foreign garb" before the war.

    That being said, the Scots, being largely English-speaking Protestants, did not have as much trouble with the "Native Americans" as the Irish & Germans did.


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    Double-post.

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    Some extraordinary characters there, Todd.
    Thanks for posting them. (For once I had time to read through them all.)
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    There was a Regt. from N.C. that started out wearing kilts, I don't remember how long they wore them. I dought by end of 61 and the spring of 62 you would have seeen one. There was a book about them, I read years ago, I want to sat the name of it was, " Kilted soldiers in Gray", that was like 20 years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by charliec3006 View Post
    There was a Regt. from N.C. that started out wearing kilts, I don't remember how long they wore them. I dought by end of 61 and the spring of 62 you would have seeen one. There was a book about them, I read years ago, I want to sat the name of it was, " Kilted soldiers in Gray", that was like 20 years ago.
    I just did a very quick search in Worldcat/OCLC (a database for librarians) and no such title appears. If you can remember the author, I may be able to look up the book that way.

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