Did Confederate soldiers actually wear gray uniforms instead of blue ones as seen in movies about the Civil War?

In movies Confederate soldiers were frequently depicted with gray uniforms during the Civil War. Gray uniforms were expensive though, and so not every soldier had them. By early 1862, butternut dyed Confederate soldiers mostly wore homemade cotton clothes. In their camps, some of the soldiers who didn’t get clothes from home wore wool Union uniforms, dyed butternut. Because of the war effort, all supplies for the Union were stretched thin and "shoddy" cloth (a mixture of old and new wool) was used to make union uniforms, which were low quality. Eventually the word 'shoddy' came to mean 'poor quality.'

What soldiers looked like then were two photos, colorized with an in app, from the National Archives. The photos show some soldiers who don’t even have shoes, proving how difficult it was to get shoes for Confederate soldiers. Of course, they didn’t go off to Gettysburg because they didn’t have shoes.

Two other photos show the soldiers in the Trans-Mississippi region in various uniforms, some in butternut, some in gray, some in the faded blue shoddy uniforms. In one, Confederate prisoners, including some civilians held as prisoners of war, are at Fairfax Courthouse. The photo shows darker skinned Confederate soldiers, showing that there wasn't always war between the Confederates because of race. For some people, when they took their food, killed their animals, destroyed their crops, these people would have no food and their families would starve, then the Union’s promise of freedom didn’t matter.