A military coat or a cocked hat was the only semblance of uniform possessed by some of the officers.

Rank was often indicated by ribbons of different colors tied on the arm.

Lads from the farms had come in their usual dress; a good many of these were hunters from the frontier wearing the buckskin of the deer they had slain.

Sometimes there was clothing of grimmer material.

Later in the war in American officer recorded that his men had skinned two dead Indians "from their hips down, for bootlegs, one pair for the Major, the other for myself." The volunteers varied greatly in age.