The butternut region is a civil war term that refers to the areas of southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. These states were non-slaveholding, but mainly settled by people from the slaveholding south. So the population of this region was suspected to be sided with the south and oppose an anti slavery war.
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Confederates= gray Union= blue
The Unionists wore blue or sky blue uniform. The Confederates wore grey and also, after the early stage of the war, "butternut" uniforms.
If it is singular: a Fed If it is plural: Feds
the confederate were a tanish gray color.. the union were a dark blue.. confederate believed in slavery.. union did not approve.. ANSWER. They wore gray uniforms but often also the "butternut" of homespun dyes.
The Appalachian region