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SC Republicans Play Confederate Dress-Up, Complete with Slaves

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Vicious Babushka9/15/2010 12:04:10 pm PDT

re: #7 steve

Dressed as a Confederate General? And here I thought that the Yankees only wore blue.

At the beginning of the woah, the Confederates also wore blue (made for a bunch of confusion at the First Battle of Bull Run) but changed to butternut/gray (actually undyed) when the Yankee blockade cut off their supply of indigo from the West Indies.

I think there were also indigo farms in South Carolina but apparently not enough to supply the entire Confederacy.