Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], December 7, 1860
Week before last we urged the propriety of the military companies now being formed throughout the State uniforming themselves in home made jeans. Last Monday our enterprising friend, Wm. T. Patton, of Flowerdale, Freestone county, orderly sergeant in a new company organized in that neighborhood called the Prairie Wake Ups, called on us dressed in the uniform of said company. It consists of a frock coat and pants made of homemade jeans, with red and white worsted stripes on the breast and [legs?]. It looked neat and comfortable, and instead of the money being sent North to feed our enemies, it was distributed at home. The spirit of this company is worthy of imitation, and we would urge the propriety on all companies being formed throughout the State, of having their uniforms made of goods of home manufacture.