WASHINGTON [ARK.] TELEGRAPH, Newspaper

January 29, 1862

"To our lady friends in the country, we would earnestly recommend the propriety of industriously pursuing the manufacture of cloth. The winter is now more than half gone and the time for making jeans is pretty well over, but as summer comes on, we will want summer cloth for clothing. Let any one examine the stores, and they will see that the goods are all gone suitable for clothing. We have worked energetically, gloriously for our soldiers, but they will need summer clothing, and we must work just as though we never expected peace. Those of us who have stayed at home have been wearing our old clothes and letting all the new "truck" go to the soldiers, but the old coats and pants are almost gone, and we will have to have some new ones. So let all the ladies go to work. If they make more than they need for the "dear ones" at home, send it to town and sell it; the purchasers will be plenty, and every yard will be consumed."

OK; now all of us who reenact knows about the jeans wool used for Uniforms, coats and pants. But this newspaper article clearly speaks of changing from making Jeans to the manufacture of "Summer Cloth".

Now we all know about Linsy woolsy, but my understanding is that this would not have been very serviceable as pants and coats for Uniforms. Is the writer here talking about making clothes and uniforms out of cotton and canvas, and the manufacturing of this kinds of cloth?