Originally Posted by
Luke MacGillie
Here are a couple of Quotes from the 2/42 Orderly Book:
"The officers of both battalions... a pair of blue leggans each to be uniform with the mens."
"The men to be completed as soon as possible in leggans and fellewbeggs..."
Thanks, that's very interesting. Stuff like that is why I love imagery; verbal descriptions are open to wide interpretation (now, but back then everyone would have known exactly what was meant).
Officers, being mounted or even if on foot often dressed as they would be for riding, would be expected to have their lower legs covered.
What fascinates me is the men having the combination of "leggans and fellewbeggs" which I suppose is a phonetic rendering of feile-beag. What date is that document? It's one of the earlier references to the feile-beag in the army, I would think.
But why did your re-enactment unit go with brown, when the document above specifies blue?
Last edited by OC Richard; 15th July 16 at 05:02 AM.
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