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Johney Reb, American Civil War.. American Civil War 1861-1865.
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Photograph shows unidentified Confederate prisoner of war at Fort Lookout in tattered and torn uniform.
Handwritten on verso: "A reble [sic] prisoner getting his likeness taken to send home."
Place of production from information in article: The day history died, by J. Dennis Robinson, http://www.seacoastnh.com/history/as-i-please/the-day-history-died/ which used as sources Historic Portsmouth by James Garvin and Susan Grigg, 1995, and an obituary for Lafayette V. Newell in the Portsmouth Herald, April 8, 1914, indicating that he worked at Fort Lookout, Maryland, during much of the Civil War.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202)
Purchased from: The Virginia Confederate, Waldorf, Maryland, 2013.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (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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