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Showing posts with label fixed bayonet. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Union Soldiers Posing at a Wharf in Yorktown, Virginia, During the Peninsula Campaign (1862)



Union soldiers posing at a wharf in Yorktown, Virginia, during the Peninsula Campaign, May 1862. A steamer named Robert Morris is visible docked in the background. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Two Staged Photographs of French Casualties From the Battle of Buzenval During the Siege of Paris (1871)


A similar photograph from Tips Images. At least two of the men look like they are also in the photograph above.

Two staged or reenactment photographs showing scenes of French casualties from the Battle of Buzenval during the Siege of Paris, France, c. 1871. Other sources say the photographs are of casualties actually during the Paris Commune or Franco-Prussian War, but this seems quite unlikely.

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Time-lapse Photographic Portrait of Union Soldier Francis E. Brownell (1862)


Time-lapse photographic portrait of Union Zouave Francis E. Brownell, 1862. Brownell killed secessionist James W. Jackson shortly after Jackson shot Union Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth in the Marshall House in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 24, 1861. Brownell is possibly standing on the large Confederate flag captured in the incident for which he was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

A Reviewing Stand Seating a Crowd of Spectators Next to the Treasury Building During the Grand Review of the Armies (1865)


A reviewing stand seating a crowd of spectators located next to the Treasury Building during the Grand Review of the Armies, Washington, D.C., May 1865. Attributed to Mathew Brady. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014

A Union Soldier With a Bayoneted Musket Posing in Front of a Cannon


"Pvt. T.H.P. Inslee." A Union soldier with a bayoneted musket posing in front of a cannon during the Civil War. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

A Union Slaughterhouse at City Point, Virginia


A pile of cattle horns in front of a Union slaughterhouse at City Point, Virginia. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Two Union Soldiers Strike Boxing Poses in a Camp in Petersburg


A group of Union soldiers posing in camp, two of whom are striking boxing poses, Petersburg, Virginia, April 1865. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Sunday, June 22, 2014