Lieutenants

Military Images, May/Jun 2003

>Generally, company grade line officers may have posed in regulation uniform for their photographs, but actually wore a variation of the enlisted dress in the field, both for comfort and safety, as well as lower clothing costs. By the war's end, due to rising costs, officers were allowed to buy cloth necessary to make jackets from the Quartermaster Department at cost, putting most of them in jackets, at least while serving in the field.