Colorized Images

[TerryB]

Let's see if I can upload the sketch version...nope. Guess I'll have to downsize them.

 

[TerryB]

The original...probably taken in Dallas about ten years after the end of the war.

 

[Nathanb1]

Terry....I know who it is, but are you going to tell everyone else? And maybe refer them to earlier threads about him? I still have a girlish crush on him.

 

[wilber6150]

Very nice image...

 

[TerryB]

Terry....I know who it is, but are you going to tell everyone else? And maybe refer them to earlier threads about him? I still have a girlish crush on him.

Silly me! This is Col. Marcellus Pointer of Wheeler's staff and also the 12th Ala Cav. All I did was a real quick layer or two and tried to give it the painted or charcoal look using those filters. The TSLA made the high-res scan. Pointer was accused of shooting a prisoner, but when word of his death came out, no one who was there that day repeated the charge. They did accuse him of knocking a man down with the butt of his pistol during the raid in question. In 1878, he participated in a gunfight in Dallas, was tried for murder and acquitted after 25 minutes of jury deliberation. I believe there is a link here somewhere to that story.

http://myrebelroots.blogspot.com/search/label/Gunfight

 

[wilber6150]

Layers are wonderful things aren't they

 

[TerryB]

Pointer did not belong to a veteran's organization in Dallas, or at least his name is not on published lists. So I believe this is a uniform he actually wore late in the war. His official promotion to full colonel did not go through until April 1865.

 

[prroh]

I don't know if this has been seen already here, since I'm new. It seems likely given the subject is one of the South's more awesome heros. I um, keep this magazine in my car for those annoying times you're stuck with nothing to do. I didn't look to see whose work it is, please excuse!

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I subscribe to CWT and have done so for over 30 years. The new format makes the magazine even more enjoyable.

The picture of Mosby shows missing buttons on his coat. Two, maybe three. Coat buttons were often given away to admirers , in much the same way as was locks of hair. Wonder who got the buttons?

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

I'm going to subscribe to it. I can never find it anywhere except this teeny gas station 10 miles from here- guess the owner must be an addict also, way too funny to find it there. I hope they keep doing the colorized photos for cover pics!

 

[wilber6150]

 

[wilber6150]

Just a question, would Lee's uniform been more of the blueish grey style (sorry forgot the term), then the regular grey?

 

[M E Wolf]

Just a question, would Lee's uniform been more of the blueish grey style (sorry forgot the term), then the regular grey?

I think the Museum of the Confederacy has Lee's uniform on one of their display pictures....

Another site would be Virginia Historical Society.......

I think its just fine!

M. E. Wolf

 

[wilber6150]

Tried this version as well...

 

[wilber6150]

Thanks for the tip Mr. Wolf, glad you enjoyed...

 

[oldpete63]

Change that to "Masterpiece By Will Coffey"

 

[wilber6150]

Thank you...

 

[M E Wolf]

Change that to "Masterpiece By Will Coffey"

Agreed!

Glad you have embedded your name and copyright to the colorized photos. You deserve the credit.

M. E. Wolf

 

[wilber6150]

Agreed!

Glad you have embedded your name and copyright to the colorized photos. You deserve the credit.

M. E. Wolf

Well, after I found my Stuart picture on ebay and another site being passed off by someone else, it was either do that or not post any more of them...I usually embed something in the image that allows me to make sure it was mine, and sure enough it was there, so I just added name and copyright as added level...

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

No way! On ebay? That's just tacky, I'm so sorry! I suppose it's a compliment in a way but still Good Grief!!! I know copyrite exists with the creator but it's a pain in the neck and expensive to prove, I know. Who knew it'd be an issue?

 

[wilber6150]

No way! On ebay? That's just tacky, I'm so sorry! I suppose it's a compliment in a way but still Good Grief!!! I know copyrite exists with the creator but it's a pain in the neck and expensive to prove, I know. Who knew it'd be an issue?

Yupp, and only $9.99 a copy, they denied it was mine until I proved I hid my initals in the image lol