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Summary
Photograph shows identified sailor Midshipman and Acting Master's Mate Francis Bartow Beville (also known as Frank, with surname spelled at times as Boville or Bevill) of the C.S.S. Atlanta, Confederate Navy, in uniform. Formerly served in Co. H, 8th Georgia Infantry Regiment.
Date based on when Beville was located at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, as a prisoner of war between 1863 and 1864.
Originally from an album compiled by prisoner George A. Preston of Signal Corps Confederate States Infantry Regiment.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202)
More information about F.B. Beville is available at https://medium.com/faces-of-war/captured-on-patrol-5dc82eb12001
Purchased from: The Virginia Confederate, Waldorf, Maryland, 2013.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Coddington, Ron. "Captured on Patrol." Civil War News (June 2015).
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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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