In the early days of the war, Civil War soldiers, both the Union and the Confederates wore a variety of uniforms in many different colors such as blue, red, gray, white and even tartan. There was no standardization of uniforms at the time and there was a lack of central organization to implement such a thing. It wasn't until after the war began that both sides started to standardize their uniforms due to the confusion these different colored uniforms caused on the battlefield, according to James Schouler in his book History of the United States Under the Constitution Volume VI 1861-1865: "The dress of the citizen soldier, North or South, changed with the character of the conflict. There was uniform before the first Bull Run, but not uniformity; armed bodies from either section hastened to the front in State militia dress or such other costume as pleased, and in that portentous battle were worn colors of a peacock variety such as never were worn again. For in no respect, before the war,