[Group portrait showing Colonel John Singleton Mosby and some members of his Confederate battalion]
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Title devised by library staff.
Photographer attributed based on information from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Published in "Divided We Fought: A Pictorial History of the War 1861-1865", Milhollen & Kaplan, eds. New York: Macmillan Books, 1956, p. 354.
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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