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Summary
Photograph shows identified Confederate soldier. More information is in "Glimpses of Soldiers' Lives," SoldierbiosJohnson.html
Case: Rinhart, no. 89
Other materials related to R. Cecil Johnson are in LOT 14034-5, including a letter from Thomas Screven to Johnson's father describing his death, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.31270.
Additional information in collections file.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
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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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