Sack Coat Question

[BishopLynch]

Pards,
Has anyone come across any sources in which a civilian found/modified/used military clothing, specifically jackets, for their own personal use. For instance, a US sack coat, in usable condition, found by a civilian and stripped of any military insignia. I cant seem to find anything on the topic, but I may have missed something.

[nick19thind]

Re: Sack Coat Question

Black ex-slaves would often wear old Federal uniforms like the sack coat.
During the war years many civilians wore kepis to show support for the military, they were popular among boys (there's a picture in another thread of a family in a cart, one of the children wears a kepi there)

[Curt Schmidt]

Re: Sack Coat Question

Hallo!

Some of the rail workers in images of the First Transcontinental Railroad, (leading up to when Leland Stanford officially joined the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869) at Promontory, Utah can be seen wearing army greatcoats.

Curt