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#43
Ooooooooooooooooooooooh Wilber, this is fantastic! Excellent job sir!!!
More details to savor....great for my diet as well Wilber--I look at these photos rather than eat. LOL
Seems the drummer is sitting on the 'side' of his drum, the fella below seems to have received a letter. The other seems to be on watch in "support arms."
M. E. Wolf
Thanks Wil! Interesting photo indeed! It is ashame the newspaper is not legible, at least we could see what the men were reading! It apppears to my old eyes that the photo may not be a reverse immage due to the capitol letters on the page facing us are to the left like they should be. Or maybe someone printed on the photo afterward.
Mr. Wolf,
you keep finding interesting things and I will keep blowing them up for us
Thanks for trying on the newspaper! And image in post 44 looked like colors to me as well, but now I think it is a rifle and the man flinched giving a ghost image. But like I said my eyes aint the best anymore!Could the man in #44 being carrying the colors , but the material is just hanging down? It looks like theres a staff in a support hanging from his belt..
Could the man in #44 being carrying the colors , but the material is just hanging down? It looks like theres a staff in a support hanging from his belt..
Wilber, sir;
I am inclined to think in #44, that it is a musket that has shifted and blurred into a double exposure sort of thing. Looking up top it seemingly looks to be a bayonet affixed to the end. The flag socket would be in front, distributed weight on the shoulder. The question arises as to why the pole of the flag is not resting on the ground and why the soldier is in the position he is in for manual of arms. In addition, the lack of the flag being held out as an identifier ...e.g. Corps, Regimental, Battalion ...even a guideon... pride of a unit would at least be a part of this picture.
Just some thoughts and opinions.
M. E. Wolf
Zylphy....u got passion going....what card game are they playing? IF IT IS ONE I know from that era....I may know the winning hand. Clue.....it is NOT poker. OR....they just held cards for the photo and means nothing....to not blurr the pic ya know. Them boys holding steadfast fer at least 15 secs. Good Sun...10 secs. This a great pic. Clear...etc.Mamacita! I go away for one day of Amish Market shoppin' and look what happens!
Wilber, FANTASTIC!!!! Just too great!! You have worked so hard and the results are totally amazing. Just wonderful. I have been intrigued by this particular pic for awhile because it does indeed show the guys just hanging out, doing what people do when they get a, well, a "coffee break"! So great to see what they are actually involved in. The guy reading the newspaper looks like the paper he is holding shows some kind of map... where the troops of both sides were that day?? Heh, maybe I'm just reading that into it. But didn't the newspapers get in trouble after awhile for publishing so much open news about troop movements? Just marvelous detail. The card came, the officer with his pipe (he's pretty cute!)... all just a real treasure trove! I will no doubt be looking at this thread, and looking at this thread again and again, for a long time.
Thank you so much!!!!
Zylphy....u got passion going....what card game are they playing? IF IT IS ONE I know from that era....I may know the winning hand. Clue.....it is NOT poker. OR....they just held cards for the photo and means nothing....to not blurr the pic ya know. Them boys holding steadfast fer at least 15 secs. Good Sun...10 secs. This a great pic. Clear...etc.