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10thMountain05 May 2016 3:30 a.m. PST

I am trying to get an idea of uniforms for the Georgia Battalion, Duval's Kentucky Mustangs etc, during the Texas Revolution.

Rudysnelson05 May 2016 6:38 a.m. PST

The Alabama units did not have formal uniforms. Often they would have distinctive armbands or shirts. Many wore armbands. IIRC they were the Red Rovers so I would guess that they had red armbands or shirts. The images from Alabama Red Rovers re-enactors show them wearing red dyed hunting frocks with wide brim slouch hats.

Tricorne197105 May 2016 11:37 a.m. PST

While not directly answering the Georgia inquiry, I recommend you purchase Uniforms of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution by Bruce Marshall published by Schiffer, 2003.

10thMountain05 May 2016 12:05 p.m. PST

I have the book and am familiar with the Red Rovers. I was wondering if there were any other units.

Secsesh05 May 2016 1:47 p.m. PST

Texas History online says that the Georgia Battalion was outfitted from state arsenals. I know too that contemporary with the Georgia Battalion there was a unit of Georgia volunteers fighting the Seminoles called the "Macon Greys". Macon was where the GA Battalion seems to have sprung from so I'm putting all those snippets together and painting a "Georgia" unit in grey militia uniform (using New Orleans Greys figs) with (mostly) white belts. If I make headway I plan to use these in Texas and Seminole games using Sharp Practice II. A basic Grey uniform seems a reasonable place to start in the absence of other information.

Rudysnelson05 May 2016 3:17 p.m. PST

The comment that the frock hunting coats were of mud-blue can be confusing. In the parts of Alabama and Georgia where Macon is located (recruitment center) mud is a red shade. In other places it is a gray mud color. So I suspect that the blue-gray frock coat would have been worn though it could have been a red-blue shade.
Frock hunting coats were popular in the South in the War of 1812 and later.

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