Mr King Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Union standard bearer Alex Rogers of the 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment holding what is left of the standard after the Battle of Gettysburg 1883 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted November 16, 2014 Author Share Posted November 16, 2014 A Confederate field hospital in Petersburg Virginia that has been captured during the Siege of Petersburg June 15, 1864 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 Members of a engineering battalion near Petersburg, VA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKTanker Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Members of a engineering battalion near Petersburg, VA The guy in the middle back row, he lives. He lives in every unit I've ever had the pleasure of serving, and I imagine he lives in all other units. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 I was thinking he was the spitting image of a young Peter Falk. I can also see a demonic Buster Keaton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kennedy Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Totally -- an aggro short guy, probably real mean and funny. Great picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 I was thinking he was the spitting image of a young Peter Falk. I can also see a demonic Buster Keaton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 Union Soldier with a former slave.1863 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 Robert E. Lee on his horse Traveler 1866 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Eastes Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I've spent an awful lot of time with my nose buried in Civil War books, and you've managed to find a couple of pictures that I hadn't seen before. Good finds. I agree on "the forever soldier" in the picture of the engineers. One of him was in my basic training company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 My pleasure Michael. Confederate troops 1862 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Eastes Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 My pleasure Michael. Confederate troops 1862 This is, reputedly, the only photo extant of Confederate troops on the march, during a campaign. As you can see, they are fairly individualistic in appearance. The hats are pretty much free-style. I can only discern a couple of the forage caps/kepis which just about every Hollywood Confederate is equipped with, and there are many variants of slouch hats evident. Most of the men in the two ( I am presuming ) companies closest to the camera are carrying their muskets at "right shoulder shift", which, I can attest, is the most comfortable way to carry them long-distance. Companies tended to be well below their authorized strength, especially so in many of the Army of N. Virginia's brigades, which had seen a lot of action, and not many replacements. There does look like there might be some degree of uniformity, at least regarding the jackets. The lead company, or companies, seem to have darker uniform jackets than the ones closer to the camera. IIRC, this picture was taken during the Antietam-Sharpsburg campaign, somewhere in Maryland, prior to the battle. At least, that's what one of my sources said. Col. Lindquist might have better information, although I believe that he was still at VMI during this part of the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 My pleasure Michael. Confederate troops 1862 This is, reputedly, the only photo extant of Confederate troops on the march, during a campaign. As you can see, they are fairly individualistic in appearance. The hats are pretty much free-style. I can only discern a couple of the forage caps/kepis which just about every Hollywood Confederate is equipped with, and there are many variants of slouch hats evident. Most of the men in the two ( I am presuming ) companies closest to the camera are carrying their muskets at "right shoulder shift", which, I can attest, is the most comfortable way to carry them long-distance. Companies tended to be well below their authorized strength, especially so in many of the Army of N. Virginia's brigades, which had seen a lot of action, and not many replacements. There does look like there might be some degree of uniformity, at least regarding the jackets. The lead company, or companies, seem to have darker uniform jackets than the ones closer to the camera. IIRC, this picture was taken during the Antietam-Sharpsburg campaign, somewhere in Maryland, prior to the battle. At least, that's what one of my sources said. Col. Lindquist might have better information, although I believe that he was still at VMI during this part of the war. Corner of Market and Patrick Streets in Fredneck (Frederick), Maryland. Ironic that they think it was taken from the building which now houses the Museum of Civil War medicine. Some troops on that march literally went through what is now my aunt's and uncle's backyard before they crossed the Potomac. Alas, no relics ever found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Confederate private Henry Moore 1861 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 John Brown holding the flag of the Subterranean Pass - Way, an armed sister organization to the Underground Railroad 1846 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Confederate private Henry Moore 1861 Looks like he's part of a Roman legion with that gladius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 Wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and his wife Varina Howell. 1845 Supposedly his wife is of Welsh ancestry. I will admit not being very familiar with Wales, but is it common for the Welsh people to have such prominent African facial features? She looks like any number of white / black mixed race girls I went to school with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varina_Davis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendist Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and his wife Varina Howell. 1845 Supposedly his wife is of Welsh ancestry. I will admit not being very familiar with Wales, but is it common for the Welsh people to have such prominent African facial features? She looks like any number of white / black mixed race girls I went to school with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varina_Davis http://robotsinmasquerade.blogspot.se/2011/05/ethnic-origins-of-confederate-first.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendist Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Private Henry Moore seem to have a belt buckle with the letters US on. Did he perhaps wear it with his confederate uniform because it was the only belt he owned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Eastes Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 (edited) Confederate private Henry Moore 1861 Looks like he's part of a Roman legion with that gladius. Not a gladius, as such, but a US artillery short sword. Wendist, Confederate troops often used US equipment of all sorts. Generally, however, if a US belt buckle was worn, it was worn upside down. If anyone is interested, that image taken very early in the war ( obviously; 1861 ) , when most Confederates were using whatever they had captured from US armouries, which were all over the country, to service both the regular Army and the state militias. Initially, many units on both sides turned out in grey uniforms, since grey had been the designated colour for militia units, in most cases. This soldier's shell jacket is of a type that stayed in service throughout the war, but the extra trim, most likely for a local militia company, disappeared from most CS garments fairly quickly, due to scarcity of material, and the need for larger than expected quantities of such garments. True uniformity took a while to get going on both sides, with the south lagging behind because of shortages of all sorts. Depending on the state from which the unit came, and what theatre of the war that they served in, some Confederate units never really achieved uniformity to the same extent as the Union did, and some units with specialised uniforms ( e.g., Zouaves ) retained them throughout the war, although most eventually ended up in more drab uniforms as the cost and impracticality of gaudy dress became more apparent. Edited January 11, 2015 by Michael Eastes Stating the obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Interesting that all of the pictures on this page are flipped left-to-right, judging by the buttons (and the US being backwards on the belt). Means that the lad is holding the sword in his left hand. Unless the convention for men's coat buttons has changed in the last 160 or so years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 Interesting that all of the pictures on this page are flipped left-to-right, judging by the buttons (and the US being backwards on the belt). Means that the lad is holding the sword in his left hand. Unless the convention for men's coat buttons has changed in the last 160 or so years? Yes I noticed it to, perhaps it has to do with the camera lens technology of the time? Union troops march in Washington DC, 1865 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 Confederate soldier, William M. Hogsett of Texas c. 1862 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Steele Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Confederate private Henry Moore 1861 Looks like he's part of a Roman legion with that gladius. And the picture is printed backwards. Look at hisbelt buckle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Steele Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 And "Battle of Gettysburg 1883 " Hummm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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