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[Captain William F. McRorie of Co. A, 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment in uniform with sword]

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[Captain William F. McRorie of Co. A, 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment in uniform with sword]

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Photograph shows identified soldier.

Inscription in case: "My dear cousin, Captain Wm. McRorie, killed at Spottsylvania Court House, Va., 1864. Oh what a desolate pride this Civil War is making in the hearts of our nation. P."
Case (half): Grapes design.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:180)

Purchased from: Old South Military Antiques, Ashland, Virginia, 2014.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).
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There are not many details distinguishing the Confederates from the Union soldiers in many of portrait photographs - they really were from the same country, the same culture. One of the differences that you do find is the less uniform appearance of Confederates: they are much less standard, often wearing bits and pieces of cast-off Union Army uniforms and often, even weaponry. One thing that’s specific to the Confederates is huge Bowie knives, humorously called ‘Arkansas toothpicks,’ often made by local blacksmiths.

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01/01/1861
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Rees, Charles R., photographer
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