Confederate Navy Uniforms. For a boatswain, gunner, carpenter, and sailmaker, shall be of steel grey cloth, lined with the same; Union and confederate sack coats, shell jackets, officers frock coats, great coats, wool trousers, muslin.
The design of the garment featured several. The uniforms for staff officers was covered by a single paragraph in the 1862 order: Frock coat (frockcoats), dress coats, sack coat (sackcoats), shell jackets (shelljackets).