Fair enough, but many journals and letters of the period indicate men being so hungry as to eat their own boots.  So while some soldiers/units may have been decently clothed, shod & equipped, others were most definitely not. 

And, as each militia was separately equipping, uniforms did not match state to state.  While Confederates are often thought of as wearing grey, a lot of the men wore butternut - or, especially toward the end of the war, whatever they had.

The stars and bars was part of many unit flags.  It was not necessarily the only thing on the flag though.  The Confederacy, under Davis, did make it the official flag of the CSA.  It was generally seen on the majority of battlefields and on all battlefields in one form or another.

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One thing I will agree with about the Civil War is the overuse of the Confederate Battle Flag -- which was not used by all Confederate troops but was the emblem of the Army of Virginia.  But it seems like it's the only Confederate flag Hollywood wants to use regardless of whether the units portrayed in the film carried it or not.

At one time movie studios used to have a researcher who checked all of the facts, and clothing, and colloquialisms of a period when the film was being shot.  I want to say; they were called a continuity experts, but have not been able to find anything through Google to back that up.  They also steal away from creative license of some directors when they tell them something was not invented or that people didn't speak that way.  As is shown in the Nancy Drew movie with the Bruce Willis scene.  I live in AZ and as a teen I did some extra work out at Old Tucson, when it was still a functioning studio.  While there I met a guy they called a plane handler (at least he called himself that) his only job was to tell them when aircraft were coming and would invade a shot.

I worked continuity on "A Boy & His Dog". At the end of each scene, I used a Polaroid and took photos of everything; every tabletop, every blanket scattered about, how every character's buttons were buttoned, shirt tails in or out... everything. The photos were left on each place they were and given to wardrobe personnel. After the cameras and lights were set up for the next shot, my bosses checked to make sure everything was exactly as it was in the previous take. then they labelled each photo with location and scene and take number (from the clapboard) and filed them if a scene needed to be reshot later.

Ever notice that you rarely see a clock on a set?

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Ever notice that you rarely see a clock on a set?

I hope they didn't have to shoot the opening scene of Back to the Future too often.