Hessian Private, Erb Prinz Fusilier Regiment of Hesse-Cassel, during the American Revolution. 1910 illustration by Charles MacKubin Lefferts. Watercolor, gouache, black ink, graphite on board. (New York Historical Society)

Unidentified Soldier in Union Cavalry Uniform with Stocked Colt Pistol, Remington, and Cavalry Saber

[between 1861 and 1865] sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.4 cm (case)

Kentucky, being a border state, was among the chief places where the "Brother against brother" scenario was prevalent. Kentucky was officially neutral at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union for assistance, and thereafter became solidly under Union control. Kentucky was the site of fierce battles, such as Mill Springs and Perryville.

Notes: Soldier possibly from Kentucky. photo lightenedbyCivilWarParlor

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Civil War Re-enactors Fight to Right History at Gettysburg for 150th

The 6th Colored Regiment of the Union Army reenact battles, and takes it as an opportunity to educate people about the role of blacks in the Civil War that led to their emancipation.

Chuck Monroe belongs to a small group of black Civil War reenactors..  “People don’t realize that 209,000 blacks fought in the war,” he told NBC News.com 

“We do this to tell the untold story of the African-American experience,” said Monroe.

Steve James NBC News contributor

http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/civil-war-re-enactors-fight-right-history-gettysburg-150th-6C10489622

A carte-de-visite portrait of Isaac Newton Snively (1839-1913). According to the source, Snively “served as an assistant surgeon in the Twentieth Pennsylvania Emergency Infantry, a regiment organized after Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia invaded the North in the summer of 1863. Snively left the army after the Battle of Gettysburg ended the Southern threat, and rejoined the military after Confederate cavalry burned his Chambersburg home in 1864."

(Ronald S. Coddington)

Five Union Soldiers

With cigars gathered in a forest clearing. Quarter-plate image has gilt on frock coat buttons and tinting to cheeks. Soldiers wear slough and forage caps. Housed in separated case with embossed design covers and latch hooks. Tooled mat and frame. Interior padding and matting clean. Picture was up for auction in 2007 http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/3981684

“The Relief” by Henry Bunbury (British, 1781)

Source

Automobile Association 1930s | http://flic.kr/p/9gLv8u

An interesting photo which shows the Automobile Association’s Office in Southampton, Great Britain, ca. 1930.

Stood by her open top car (Morris?) is a lady identified on the back as Miss (Mrs.?) Scott who was at some time the Port officer for the AA here.

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Private Peter H. Bird of Co. D, 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment, in Uniform

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a gentleman of slight stature in military dress], John A. Winberg

via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

ca. 1880’s, [tintype portrait of a disgruntled mailman in uniform carrying leather satchel and a huge backpack of newspapers, parcels, etc.]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery #34

ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of a Union infantryman with regulation uniform]

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a young boy with a Chico shirt], H. H. Frye

via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

ca. 1860’s, [post mortem ambrotype portait of a Union officer in his coffin]

via Cowan’s Auction

It was not until the Civil War when embalming became commonplace in America. With soldiers fighting and dying sometimes hundreds of miles from home, the sanitary and aesthetic issues arising from transporting a body over several days, sometimes weeks on trains, was quickly resolved through a mortician’s hand and embalming procedures.

“The glamorous dancer Irene Castle wearing a World War I “Preparedness Uniform” of her own design. The dress was based on the uniform worn by her husband and partner, Vernon Castle, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. During their heyday, the Castles were the epitome of style and sophistication and Mrs. Castle’s wardrobe was frequently copied by society women.” (via)

Continental Army by Unknown

Continental Army Soldiers in Uniforms by Unknown