Captains

Captains and lieutenants were to wear collar insignia consisting of embroidered gold bars. The bars were to be a half inch wide and the captain's top bar was to be three inches long. The front of the bars were to incline to match the angle of the collar, and were to be set back three fourths of an inch from the front collar edge. The line of the back edges of the bars were to be vertical.

The bars worn by a first lieutenant and the second lieutenant were to be placed so as to divide "equally the vertical space of the collar."

The collars on which the bars were placed, as with all officers, were to be in branch of service colors. These were black for Medical Department officers, red for artillery, yellow for cavalry, and light blue for infantry. Moreover, according to regulations, "The tunic for all officers to be edged throughout with the facings designated." In fact, many officers used all gray coats, sometimes with edges piped with the correct branch of service colors.

At first many officers used U.S. Army officers' shoulder straps for their rank insignia. An item in the Richmond Daily Dispatch on March 21, 1862, noted wearing these instead of collar badges was forbidden by orders. Still, one of Jackson's staff officers was photographed in Richmond in May 1863 wearing them.

On June 3, 1862 the War Department authorized officers to wear either a frock coat or jacket "without embroidery," apparently with just the collar insignia and not the sleeve insignia, to make them less conspicious to enemy sharpshooters.