General William A. Quarles - C.S.A. of Tenn. Wounded in Hood's charge at Franklin / Ben Oppenheimer, Photograph Gallery, 56 Dauphin Street, Mobile.
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Photograph shows Brigadier General William Andrew Quarles of 42nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment and Gen. & Staff Confederate States Infantry Regiment in uniform standing in front of painted backdrop showing landscape with trees.
Notation on verso: With the best wishes of your friend. Wm. A. Quarles.
Negative numbers on verso: LC-BH821-5823, LC-B8184-10684
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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