Blue and Gray
Union and Confederacy
Blue and Gray refers to the opposing sides in the American Civil War—Union forces wore blue uniforms, Confederate forces wore gray.
The phrase evokes the conflict as a whole or reconciliation between former enemies: Blue and Gray reunions brought veterans together decades after the war.
Sometimes appears as the Blue and the Gray.
- memorialsTributes to the departed
- regimentsMilitary units under colonels
- uniformsStandardized institutional clothing
- brother against brotherRelatives warring against each other
- battle flagMilitary unit's identifying standard
division · Abraham Lincoln · Gettysburg · monuments · unity · battlefields · loyalty · Robert E. Lee · Antietam · fallen soldiers · old soldiers · lost cause · harmony · mood · contrast · Emancipation Proclamation · Ulysses S. Grant · reenactments
Blue and GrayUnion
Named political entity
Confederacy · Yankees · Federal forces · Confederate forces · North
Blue and GrayUnited States
North American federal republic
one nation · E pluribus unum · reconciliation · brotherhood · Reconstruction
blue, gray, blues, grays, blued, grayed, bluish, grayish, blueness