4 Confederate Veterans

[Zuzah]

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[reading48]

Cool....

 

[donna]

Very nice.

 

[Championhilz]

Great picture! Captain Isaac James Howlett served in Company F, 48th Tennessee Infantry - A picture of his tombstone is on Findagrave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=11142859&df=all&

 

[msimmons]

Great picture.

 

[Joshua Horn]

That's really great!

 

[TinCan]

Great picture zuzah. Looks to be 3 officers and an enlisted man. From the right looks like a captain, then a general, the enlisted man and I believe the last is a colonel (I can't see his collar but I believe it's Colonel Harry Rene Lee of the Tennessee Pension Board)

 

[Zuzah]

Thanks a lot guys, I appreciate it.

Great picture zuzah. Looks to be 3 officers and an enlisted man. From the right looks like a captain, then a general, the enlisted man and I believe the last is a colonel (I can't see his collar but I believe it's Colonel Harry Rene Lee of the Tennessee Pension Board)

A guy on Reddit found this Tincan
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[AndyHall]

Ranks ascribed to Confederate veterans are very dicey, for a couple of reasons. First, there was a tendency use military rank as a title of respect for prominent or older men with any military service, regardless of the nature of that service or the rank held at the time. Second, there were ranks associated with holding office within the UCV. "General" Harry Rene Lee, for example, eventually became Commander-in-Chief of the UCV in 1935-36. He died in March 1938, at the age of 92. Even his Tennessee death certificate gives his title as "General," although his wartime rank in Co. K. of the 34th Mississippi was Sergeant.

I have an ancestor which was very active in UCV and Hood's Brigade Association activities in his later years, and known universally as "Colonel." His wartime rank, start to finish, was Private.

Almost a hundred years ago, an old Texas veteran with the improbable name of Valerius Cincinnatus Giles passed away, leaving a sprawling, fragmentary memoir of his Civil War service. A half-century and a lot of editing later, it was finally compiled and published as Rags and Hope, a volume that has since become a classic among Civil War enlisted soldiers' autobiographies. In closing Giles wrote:

It is over, and we are all officers now!​

It's General That and Colonel This​

And Captain So and So.​

There's not a private in the list​

No matter where you go.​

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The men who fought the battles then,​

Who burned the powder and lead,​

And lived on hardtack made of beans​

Are promoted now—or dead.​

I imagine that the GAR had a similar problem, though I know less about them than the UCV.

 

[shanniereb]

Nice clear photo!

 

[civilwarincolor]

I have an ancestor which was very active in UCV and Hood's Brigade Association activities in his later years, and known universally as "Colonel." His wartime rank, start to finish, was Private.

Are you telling me that Colonel Sanders was not a real Colonel???!!!!

 

[Karen Lips]

Awesome photo! Thanks for sharing!

 

[AndyHall]

Are you telling me that Colonel Sanders was not a real Colonel???!!!!

Well, he kinda was. The governor of Kentucky is authorized to appoint state citizens as official "Kentucky Colonels" in recognition of some good deed or service. Harlan Sanders was so honored in 1935.

I can't stand the product -- I'm strictly a Popeye's man -- but I find the story behind KFC fascinating.

We have a similar program in Texas, wherein the governor commissions Admirals in the Texas Navy, a rank that did not actually exist in the Republic of Texas' naval service of 1836-45.

 

[Zuzah]

Well, he kinda did. The governor of Kentucky is authorized to appoint state citizens as official "Kentucky Colonels" in recognition of some good deed or service. Harlan Sanders was so honored in 1935.

I can't stand the product -- I'm strictly a Popeye's man -- but I find the story behind KFC fascinating.

We have a similar program in Texas, wherein the governor commissions Admirals in the Texas Navy, a rank that did not actually exist in the Republic of Texas' naval service of 1836-45.

I've never had Popeyes or KFC.

 

[AndyHall]

I've never had Popeyes or KFC.

But you will outlive the rest of us who have, so there are compensations.

 

[Lazy Bayou]

Very nice picture. You do excellent work.

 

[junkcollector]

yo

I've never had Popeyes or KFC.

ur not missing much they all tast the same, blah!!!!!

 

[junkcollector]

yo

I've never had Popeyes or KFC.

ur not missing much they all tast

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very nice photo & piece of history

 

[Gandycreek]

WOW ! Great Job.

 

[Zuzah]

Thanks a lot guys.