Posted on 01/08/2011 6:13:36 AM PST by real saxophonist
Faces of the Civil War Previous Next 1 of 28 . Faces of the Civil War: The Library of Congress recently acquired a rare collection of nearly 700 Civil War-era ambrotype and tintype photographs, donated by the Liljenquist family. The collection includes photographs of Union and Confederate soldiers, as well as the women and children they left behind. (Photo Credit: Library of Congress)
Amazing, most of the soldiers on both sides were just boys between the ages of 17 and 25.
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A few years ago I was browsing through a bookstore in Decatur, Alabama and on their sale table were two new copies of Civil War, A Complete Photographic History, for $11.99 each. I bought them both, gave one to a friend and kept the other. It’s 9”x12”x2” and probably weighs 10 pounds with nearly 4,000 images of the war, well captioned and interlaced with essays.
“Amazing, most of the soldiers on both sides were just boys between the ages of 17 and 25.”
This is the case in most wars. It wasn’t 40 year old Tom Hanks’ that stormed Normandy Beach. It was 19 and 20 year old boys.
A great read
The Confederate Soldier:
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/reb.htm
A typical company of soldiers (100 men) was raised in the county where they lived. Once they were organized and offered to the state, the company went to a training camp usually located near the state capitol. They were then organized into regiments, elected officers, received clothing and arms, and began the long process of becoming soldiers. When regiments from the Confederate states first arrived in Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, there was a big difference noticed by everyone. Every state had chosen a different design for their soldiers’ uniforms and no two organizations looked the same. Many were carrying state flags or home-made flags. Some regiments were poorly armed or had no weapons at all. Providing for the volunteer regiments was left up to each state that raised the regiments, whether the soldiers were in their home state or away. As uniforms and equipment wore out, the quartermasters of each regiment discovered that they could not get replacements. It took months for the Confederate War Department to organize a supply system to issue clothing and equipment to all of the volunteer regiments and despite their efforts, the Confederate soldier suffered from shortages throughout the war.
Excerpt............
My dad was 22 when he landed on Utah Beach.
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"Spoiler warning - the north won the war... the south won the reconstruction... the north won the civil rights movement... the south continues to calculate it's next move."
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