My first cowboys

[Erwan]

Great colors (and painting), Erwan!  Actually some of the better color choices I've seen (historically) for some old west. Moss green? A forest green was actually used in the Civil War by Berdan's Sharpshooters:

http://www.geocities.com/wr2usss/2ndusss.jpg

And Mousy- great source for the bushwacker clothing! Also-I've seen the steamboat Arabia (or what remains of it.) Talk about a treasure trove of old west items:

http://www.1856.com/

Curly

Wow thank you very much for this link. This green is really beautifull. I will try to do it but I believe that it is very difficult...

[PeteMurray]

It was really hard to get a colorfast green dye in the US for a long time, so the green would quickly fade into a grassy color. Green jackets were the uniform of the US riflemen and sharpshooters from just after the American Revolution to the end of the Civil War. So don't worry about trying to get the green just right!

Out West, where the bulk of the regular Army presence was cavalry, there weren't a whole lot of green uniform tunics in the militia. States mostly bought what was cheap. The whole blue = North/ gray = South wasn't even a hard and fast rule. For the first few battles of the Civil War, there were gray-clad Northerners and blue-clad Southerners, and boy did that confuse the hell out of things.