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Confederate artillery near Charleston, S.C. in 1861 [i.e. 1863]
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No. 4389.
Caption log entry for no. 10358: Palmetto Battery, near Charleston, S.C. Photo by Cook.
Hand written on verso: "See p. 281, Divided We Fought, and Miller, vol. I, p. 107".
Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 79.
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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