Very interesting, but also confronting pics of the US civil war.
http://www.themysteryworld.com/2010/09/ ... hotos.html
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Something I just have to share with you guys:
Sure, someone may one day kill me with my own gun.
But they'll have to beat me to death with it because it's empty.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
But they'll have to beat me to death with it because it's empty.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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Awesome thanks for sharing!
Many of them seem to be taken in the summer of 1863 but there are quite a few from 1862 and 64-5
interesting to see Washington pretty much a building site. The dome of the Capitol unfinished, and the Washington monument (the big Plinth) just a stub.
The one that really caught my eye is the emaciated figure in the chair. Thats a liberated Union POW from Andersonville. Its the closest the ACW came to a concentration camp. 12,000 Union POWs died there, mostly from disease.
The picture looks like something from the mid 20th century.
many of the casualty pictures are taken at Gettysberg. The ones with the big rocks. They seem to be little and big round top, the scenes of the most intense fighting, where the CSA nearly broke through.
The others seem to show casualties around the trenches at Petersburg and Richmond (?) in the last months. There is also a pic showing the "stone wall" where Jacksons brigade made their famous stand, earlier in the war.
The town with the river may be Vicksburg, which was beseiged by the Federal armies at the same time as Gettysberg was being fought summer 1863.
The coastal fortifications are especially interesting, I think most of them are in the Carolinas. Ft Wagner (from the film Glory) is pictured in one, pretty sure about that. There is a pic of Ft Sumter (with the CSA flag flying)
There is something strangely modern about many of them. From the attitudes of the subjects being photographed.
Thanks!
Many of them seem to be taken in the summer of 1863 but there are quite a few from 1862 and 64-5
interesting to see Washington pretty much a building site. The dome of the Capitol unfinished, and the Washington monument (the big Plinth) just a stub.
The one that really caught my eye is the emaciated figure in the chair. Thats a liberated Union POW from Andersonville. Its the closest the ACW came to a concentration camp. 12,000 Union POWs died there, mostly from disease.
The picture looks like something from the mid 20th century.
many of the casualty pictures are taken at Gettysberg. The ones with the big rocks. They seem to be little and big round top, the scenes of the most intense fighting, where the CSA nearly broke through.
The others seem to show casualties around the trenches at Petersburg and Richmond (?) in the last months. There is also a pic showing the "stone wall" where Jacksons brigade made their famous stand, earlier in the war.
The town with the river may be Vicksburg, which was beseiged by the Federal armies at the same time as Gettysberg was being fought summer 1863.
The coastal fortifications are especially interesting, I think most of them are in the Carolinas. Ft Wagner (from the film Glory) is pictured in one, pretty sure about that. There is a pic of Ft Sumter (with the CSA flag flying)
There is something strangely modern about many of them. From the attitudes of the subjects being photographed.
Thanks!
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I think they couldn't yet provide those rations as they were back then.
Simply because they didn't had reliable logistics yet. I think these were only guidelines that were supplimented with whatever they could get their hands on.
Simply because they didn't had reliable logistics yet. I think these were only guidelines that were supplimented with whatever they could get their hands on.
Sure, someone may one day kill me with my own gun.
But they'll have to beat me to death with it because it's empty.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
But they'll have to beat me to death with it because it's empty.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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For the enthousiasts:
http://pictureshistory.blogspot.com/
It contains LOADS of pictures from all kinds of conflicts. Unfortunatly no highres pictures.
http://pictureshistory.blogspot.com/
It contains LOADS of pictures from all kinds of conflicts. Unfortunatly no highres pictures.
Sure, someone may one day kill me with my own gun.
But they'll have to beat me to death with it because it's empty.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
But they'll have to beat me to death with it because it's empty.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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Re: Civil war
Thanks Ted 