Mr King Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 Union troops in front of the still in construction US Capitol Building. 1861 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Tucan Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 That would be what, a company? Two companies? Looks like some 100 soldiers, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Chin Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Photo cameras at the time require the subjects to stand still for many minutes, accounting for the stoic expressions they wore on the developed film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 Men of Company B, Petersburg Virginia 1864 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Seems like every face in that photo has a story. Thanks for posting Mr King. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 You're quite welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Lindquist Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 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. Guy second from left in the middle row has a "thousand yard stare". Wonder what those engineers have been doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 The quality of that Company B photograph is astonishingly high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiloMorai Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 many interesting photos,http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-1-the-places/100241/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wick92 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 (edited) The quality of that Company B photograph is astonishingly high.High enough quality to see that it's Company C, at least according to the hat brass. 😀 The soldier lounging in the front row has an absolutely epic stem on that clay pipe. Edited February 22, 2015 by Wick92 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 CSS Alabama and in the foreground her captain, Raphael Semmes, and his First Lieutenant, John Kell, behind him. The photo was captioned as being taken in South Africa in August 1863 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted March 6, 2015 Author Share Posted March 6, 2015 Sherman's men destroying a Southern railroad thing outside Atlanta, 1864 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Some great photos of UCV and GAR veterans here: http://mashable.com/2015/04/10/civil-war-oldest-veterans/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 I realize I really butchered that caption of my last post. It was supposed to read Sherman's men doing their thing , destroying a Southern Railroad outside Atlanta. I can into big words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 150th Pennsylvanian Infantry camp, Belle Plain, Virginia, March 1863 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swerve Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 The quality of that Company B photograph is astonishingly high.Yep. I'd guess a nice big smooth glass plate, with a good & even emulsion. You could get excellent quality like that. The soldiers at the point of focus are very clear indeed. No depth of field to speak of, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Files Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 (edited) Wonder what those engineers have been doing? In front of Petersburg, 1864? http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/42272 Edited May 19, 2015 by X-Files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Files Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 (edited) 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? As a negative shows lights as darks and darks as lights, a black backing was put behind the image to correct the contrast. The negative's mirror image could not be corrected, so all images including writing are in reverse.More technical stuff at http://www.cycleback.com/1800s/earlyphotos.htm This was the first war where photographers were able to capture the nightmares and bring them back to the public. Happy Memorial Decoration Day. Union and Confederate dead, Gettysburg Battlefield, Pa., July 1863. Photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Edited May 19, 2015 by X-Files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 Cherokee Confederate reunion, New Orleans, 1903 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted June 25, 2015 Author Share Posted June 25, 2015 This is an awesome photo. Men of Company E, Fort Lincoln, District of Colombia 1864 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 This is an awesome photo. Men of Company E, Fort Lincoln, District of Colombia 1864 That would still be, ahem, an accurate picture of Fort Lincoln today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 Washington, District of Columbia. Tent life of the 31st Penn. Inf. (later, 82d Penn. Inf.) at Queen's farm, vicinity of Fort Slocum. Civil war 1861 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swerve Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 This was the first war where photographers were able to capture the nightmares and bring them back to the public.Apart from the Crimean War,https://www.thirstt.com/media/images/tbooks/53f484ea07b2be845b72e1fa/uploads/e76839_1000.jpgthe Second Opium War,http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/images/imagewar2lge.jpgthe Indian Mutinyhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Image-Secundra_Bagh_after_Indian_Mutiny_higher_res.jpg& any other wars around that time, such as the Franco-Austrian war.https://vintagephotosjohnson.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/dscn23883.jpg There was a world outside the USA, & it had wars & photographers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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