Here in Canada we only get to see US Civil War reenactments either as a matter of luck or of good management; in my case it would be the former. But recalling the great book Confederates In The Attic, I seem to remember that there are degrees of historical accuracy, as indeed there are in all things, some lesser and some greater until you get to the point where you're actually living in the mid-1800s, but of course only according to your conception of them... my point being that noone really knows what was or is entirely accurate, especially with the Confederates who didn't have the big Northern industrial machine behind them and were a lot more catch-as-catch-can in the matter of dress. And surely if they often didn't have uniforms or even footwear, anything is possible?

I state all this as my impression, being an ignorant foreigner in this regard and not, you know, wanting to get in the middle of any family fights.