The yellow-brown trousers on this trooper are butternut, the color that came to stand for the Confederate soldier nearly as much as gray did. Southern mills and home weavers ran short of proper gray dyes early in the war, so they colored wool and cotton with what they had, often walnut hulls or butternut bark mixed with copperas. The result faded to shades anywhere from tan to yellowish brown. After Vicksburg fell in July 1863, Confederate forces west of the Mississippi were almost completely cut off from the depots in Richmond. Texas troops were clothed from state sources, including the textile mill at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, which produced cloth for soldiers throughout the war. Jackets and trousers seldom matched.

The figure kneels with his carbine at his shoulder and his eye down the barrel, in the moment before he fires. He wears a gray shell jacket with yellow cavalry collar and cuffs over butternut trousers and black boots, with a gray kepi banded in yellow. A revolver rides in a flap holster on his belt, and his saber hangs at his side. He's a trooper who could fight mounted or on foot. Add him to the dismounted line with Trooper Cocking Carbine and Corporal Loading Carbine, or face him off against the Federal Trooper Kneeling Loading for a cavalry skirmish.

King & Country model CW116. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure of a Confederate cavalry trooper kneeling and firing his carbine, on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.