Well, that was only their condition before the war. After it started, they all got a gray uniform and a rifle.
a GREAT many got ZILCH from the Richmond government stores/uniform depots.
my ancestor, PVT William James (Little Thunder) Freeman, late of the 1st Mounted Cherokee Rifles & the 4th Missouri Partisan Rangers, was armed with a 13-Guage (NOT a misprint), double barreled, British-made, sporting-pattern, shotgun for most of the WBTS. he took it with him to war in April 1861 brought it home with him in June 1865. (fwiw, my cousin Beverly still owns it.) and, as far as i can tell from his letters to his mother/sister/aunt, he never was issued a uniform either.
for most of the western & trans-misississippi theaters, there was NOTHING but HONOR, DUTY, DEVOTION to family/tribe/state/CSA/Almighty God & "make do".
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Not really. The Confederate supply system was abysmal. They often wore parts of captured Union uniforms, and uniforms weren't, well uniform, on either side. Some Union units had gray uniforms, and some Confederate units had blue ones. Both sides had many other colors and styles of uniforms as well. It was a hell of a mess, especially in the first couple of years.