,AMERICA REVOLUTIONS
RARE PHOTO COLLECTIONS
A very young Yankee private with a very large knife and checkered civilian trousers. Source: Horse Soldier Collection, Fold3.com
eccentric-antiquities:
Antique Victorian human hair in a decorative frame #freaky #hair #morbid #museum #face #skull #scientific #medical
I consider this neither morbid nor freaky. The impulse to cling to some piece of a departed loved one is as natural as it is beautiful. Death was a more regular visitor in those days, its inevitability a pervasive fact, and life itself a visceral reckoning with mortality. There is a power in such remnants of abandoned architecture, a secret the elephant knows as it caresses familiar bones before returning once more to the migrations of its living herd. We held fast to what we could, when we could, cherishing such reminders of a love that does not die, until that day when we too left all earthly things behind.
“OUR rattlesnake flag.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 28 Sept 1861.
historylover1230:
“Freedom To The Slave” USA, 1863, flyer by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, distributed by Union troops in the South
colonel-kurtz-official:
A member of Berdan’s Sharpshooters poses with his Colt Model 1855 Revolving Rifle. Although it proved to be a devastating weapon, it ironically doomed the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry when the volume of fire it provided goaded the Confederates into sending an entire division to roll up their single regiment at the Battle of Chickamauga. Chain-fires were rare, but engendered distrust of the weapon and it was phased out by 1863. They were resold on the civilian and world market for 42 cents each, from the original price of 44 dollars.
Many members of Berdan’s Sharpshooters were furious over being issued these rifles (to the point of even threatening to mutiny!). They had been promised single-shot, breech-loading Sharps rifles, which were generally more reliable and accurate. They got their Sharps in May-June of 1862 and most were happy to make the switch.
sammytramp:
twippyfan:
Beautiful Bowie
The lounging lad of Connemara. Betw 1860-1883. Details from NLI originals: here and here.
mallhistories:
Near the Mall and @nmaahc , Lincoln’s second inaugural parade on Pennsylvania Ave was the first to include African Americans as participants.
After weeks of wet weather, thousands of spectators and participants trudged through the mud along Pennsylvania Avenue for President Abraham Lincoln’s second Inauguration. This inaugural parade was
Portrait of a Young Sailor.
Artist/Maker: Unknown maker, American
Date: about 1848
Medium: Daguerreotype, hand-colored
chubachus:
Tintype portrait of a group of unidentified Union soldiers during the American Civil War, c. 1860′s.
Source.
I love the sloppy “shoulder arms!” No judgement.
shewhoworshipscarlin:
Ambrotype portrait of a woman wearing a Union sash, 1860s.
Lindner 1859 1st Type carbine
Designed by Edward Lindner and manufactured by Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire c.1859-61 - no serial number.
.58 paper cartridge with percussion cap, single shot bolt action - the breech block springs up and forward when the bolt handle is rotated up, and can be loaded before being pushed down and maintained there for the bolt to rotate back above it.
One of the approximately billions of breech loading carbines made during the Civil War. This system had both the advantages of being applicable to old muzzle loading muskets and of looking good.
Portrait of a Baloch tribesman 1870, full length standing, he wears a white turban over his long curling hair, a cloth wrapped around his shoulders, knee-length baggy pajamas, he carries a traditional sword talwar and a lacquered round dhal shield decorated with four bosses.
chubachus:
Portrait of Union officers of the 120th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment in Kingston, New York, June 3, 1865.
Details from a photograph of Confederate prisoners captured during the Overland Campaign, White House Landing, Virginia, June 1864. Source.
the first to include African Americans as participants, not just spectators.
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