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Supposedly taken during the Union occupation of Raleigh. Actually, it is a re-enactment of the establishment of the signal station on the dome of the North Carolina State Capitol. The original signal station was set up by 2nd Lt George C. Round of the US Army Signal Corps in April of 1865 during the occupation of Raleigh. This photo appears in the 27th Annual Reunion of the Signal Corps, USA, Washington, DC, October 1902, from PC.142.2. This copy negative is in the General Negative Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.
I took this photo while walking around a Civil Re-enactment that took place in a park near my home in NJ. I didn't arrange these items. This is exactly how I found them.
Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The West Woods were the sight of a flanking assault by the Union army attempting to swing right and crush the Confederate left flank near the Dunker Church.
All items common to the typical Union Civil War soldier.
Clockwise from top left:
Enfield Bayonet
Kepi Hat Buckle
Eagle Breast Plate
Two Eagle General Service Buttons
US Cartridge Box Plate
Cartridge Box Finial
Tin Trouser Button
Two .58 Caliber Minie Ball Bullets
1864 Indian Head Cent
Two Knapsack Hooks
I have been recently working with a Civil War Re-enactment model who has been very patient and enthusiastic. Certainly not straight out of camera but I felt it appropriate to have the image look as period as possible.
I hope that this will draw some positive attention. Definitely a departure from my previous work. Another Flickr account is starting to become a favorable choice for my portrait and theme imaging.
Thank you all for your patience, understanding, favs and comments. You are all great artists.
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Fall Colors near the 71st and 72nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Monuments at the Angle on the Gettysburg Battlefield.
I saw this lovely gentleman wandering through the crowd this weekend at a civil war reinactment. EXPLORE
See madisonhistory.org/allis-bushnell-house/ for historical info.
See other views of this historical site at flic.kr/s/aHskdwmbMp. (Photo credit - Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
Kentucky civil war reenactment .
Approximately 620,000 soldiers died from combat, accident, starvation, and disease during the Civil War. This number comes from an 1889 study of the war performed by William F. Fox and Thomas Leonard Livermore. Both men fought for the Union.
On April 9, 1865, the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia in the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia signaled the end of the Civil War in the United States (1861-1865). House where printing press was kept. Pardons were printed for ex-Confederate soldiers to allow them to go home.
Smoke fills the air after several cannons were fired during a civil war reenactment in Naperville, Illinois
In Explore: May 20, 2007
Henry Hopkins Sibley
Henry Hopkins Sibley (May 25, 1816 – August 23, 1886) was a career officer in the United States Army, who commanded a Confederate cavalry brigade in the Civil War. In 1862, he attempted to forge a supply route from California, in defiance of the Union blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf ports, while also aiming to appropriate the Colorado gold mines to replenish the Confederate treasury.
Dawn of the anniversary date of the historic Civil War battle in 1862 outside Sharpsburg, MD, the single bloodiest day in U.S. military history.
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[There are 9 images in this set] Briery Presbyterian Church in Prince Edward County, Virginia, is just over the Charlotte County boundary line. It is a beautiful Carpenter Gothic church, built about 1855, designed by Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898). Dabney was a professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary (at that time part of Hampden-Sydney College) and the author of a biography of Stonewall Jackson, noted Confederate general in the Civil War. Dabney designed three other churches—College Church at Hampden-Sydney, Farmville Presbyterian Church and Tinkling Spring Church in Augusta County, Virginia, all in Greek Revival style rather than the Gothic Revival style of Briery. He also designed his home in Hampden-Sydney; “Westmerton” is an Italianate house dating from 1856, from the same time period as Briery Church. A set of three images is at www.flickr.com/photos/universalpops/sets/72157628611503173
Briery Church is a one-story frame board-and-batten structure with a very noticeable steep gable roof, emphasizing the verticality of lines. Built on a T-shaped plan, the front of the building has three cross gables, which create an impression of great length. The eaves are wide with simple bracketing. Each of the gables is topped with a turned finial. There are four entrances, two on the front (entrances for men and for women) and one at each side. There is no rear entrance. Each entrance is covered with a small canopy porch with barge boarding of simple curved strips of wood. Windows are 1/1 sash except for the fixed central window on the front façade; they have diamond panes. The foundation is masonry, probably brick covered with stucco. The deep swoop of the gables provides a dramatic look to this structure. I’ve not been inside but have been told it has a beautiful interior with pine ceiling. The first church on the site was about 1750 and replaced in 1824; this church replaced the latter building. Briery Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places November 29, 1969 with ID#69000371.
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