I agree.

To clarify, though, I am not suggesting that the current repro color is correct, nor that the name was necessarily used during the period, either. But, some have questioned whether wool ever even came from Tuscaloosa. At least that part can be documented by the 1850 and 1860 manufacturing census.

In fact, Leach and Avery has not the only facility producing such. Another facility in Tuscaloosa called, Useke Works, was producing 6,260 wool hats per year in 1860. I also believe that {first name unreadable} Ray was still making hats in 1865. He is shown in the 1850 manufacturing census as making wool hats and fur hats. According to a period account of home guard uniforms, fur hats were still being made in Tuscaloosa in late 1864/early 1865, just before Croxton's Raid. Neither Leach and Avery nor Useka are shown in the census records as making fur hats. At any rate, there was a rather large wool industry in Tuscaloosa during the CW period.

On a related note, Northport Manufacturing (just across the Warrior River) was producing cotton goods in 1860. This may have been the facility shown as Warrior Company in the 1850 census, which was at that time producing 600,000 yards per year.