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UNITED STATES 1862

UNION INFANTRYMAN

The North American army federal, called also union, wore a simple uniform, with chepě and jacket turchini, straight pants of blue color over the boots, corrects black. 

The only ones ornament were represent you from the buttons of the jacket and from the fibbia of the cinturone, both gild to you, and from a fixed plate of yellow metal talora to the crossing of the bandoleers and over which the number of the regiment was recorded. During the winter the soldiers repaired from the cold with a coat turchino and one cape.

 

But the cadets of the Military Academies, all the nordisti soldiers wore a simple one conform formed from one jacket blue turchina, pants, black boots of leather. 

The jacket, much soft, was lacking in implications or polsini and only adorned from a row of buttons it gilds to you. 

The pants, rights and equip you of stirrup in order to fix them to the boots, had a sideband whose color varied based on the belongings body: turchino for the infantry, red for the artillery, yellow for the cavalry. 

The officials dressed richer uniforms, on which fregi of color of the regiment testified the caught up hierarchical degree; stars for the commanders, stanghette for the officials, gallons turn upside down to you on the elbow for the non-comissioned officers.

The hat of stiff felt to wide replaced the chepě of the troop, a scarf of the same color of the degrees was fixed under the cinturone of the officials.

During the secessione war as well as the nordista army how much that sudista schierarono unit of zuavi, the been born in France and known body of light infantry all over the world for its wide tightened slacks to sbuffo under the ginocchio from an elastic one.

THE ARMS 

The infantry of the federal army was equipped with Springfield guns supplied bore 1,4 milimeter of bayonet. To their place some joining had in equipment the carabina Spencer, of the same bore, but to repetition and with it loads with seven blows. The officials carried handguns and one sabre curve. The commanders one Colt 1860 bore 11 to six blows.

The soldiers of the nordista cavalry were armed with sabre and carabina 13 Sharp milimeter. To breechloading. The artillery was organized in batteries from six pieces largest of which was the Napoleone and the Parrott: the first one had smooth spirit and could shoot blows mitraglia or grenades, the second to striped spirit concurred greater precision, had pear tree a serious defect, talora exploded because of one imperfect fusion.

 


Gruppo Murat