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I'm going to have to paint stripey trousers aren't I?
Yes you are
Just go for the stripes...it will be fun!
Stripes! Might not be so hard after the first 50 figures
If you mix and match you could end up with a very colourful and unusual unit wearing all the styles that I have seen illustrated, which would certainly suit their 1862 appearance. They may well have appeared in the Wilderness, but only as part of the Peninsula campaign in Spring/early Summer 1862, but never let a too dogged approach to history get in the way of a good wargame (after all, how often do tabletop Napoleonics go to war in their parade finery.
Paint stripes they said, it'll be fun they said...
Just keep telling yourself 'at least they didn't wear tartan'