And in Troiani's book he is wearing ankle boots.
What started my post was a discussion I had with a Civil War reenactor about a painting that was on the cover of North and South magazine several years ago. The scene depicts Confederate soldiers in battle, some wearing shirts and no jackets, at least 2 wearng bandanas on their head, and all the soldiers were firing 3 band Enfields with blued barrels. The painting was done by a veteran of that particular battle. My fellow reenactor argued that there was no way that could be true because the painting was so "inaccurate". He feels that if the artist was indeed a veteran, then he must have forgotten most of what he saw and experienced.
As far as using a Hollywood movie as documentation, we can pick apart any movie out there, even the good ones. Remember the scene in Man in the Wilderness, where one of the guys left with Richard Harris is holding a flintlock weapon, with no flint in the lock? And I am frightened by the amount of people I have spoken with who think that Oliver Stone's JFK is true.