Another Confederate Ambrotype.

[Robert Gray]

I found this ambrotype and the accompanying text from an anonymous source and thought I'd share it.

"This soldier is a study of the prototypical Confederate infantryman. He is wearing a six-button shell jacket with epaulettes and matching trousers cut from coarse material. The leather cartridge box and sling appear russet rather than blackened. The canteen is a drum style, rather than oblate spheroid. The waist belt does not appear to have a brass plate. Visual evidence suggests the weapons he holds are a U.S. Model 1816 flintlock musket converted to percussion, and a Model 1858 Remington or Whitney revolver."

 

[Old Soldier]

Mirror-image, as usual. The kit has been swapped around to make it look right but the givaway is the jacket fastening - and the lock on the longarm is on the wrong side., A long exposure too - you can see the posing stand behind his boots. Studio props? Probably not as this is not a 'studio' photo but one with canvas screens. The carpet was often put down to hide the grass or dirt.

 

[Trooper "D"]

I found this ambrotype and the accompanying text from an anonymous source and thought I'd share it.

"This soldier is a study of the prototypical Confederate infantryman. He is wearing a six-button shell jacket with epaulettes and matching trousers cut from coarse material. The leather cartridge box and sling appear russet rather than blackened. The canteen is a drum style, rather than oblate spheroid. The waist belt does not appear to have a brass plate. Visual evidence suggests the weapons he holds are a U.S. Model 1816 flintlock musket converted to percussion, and a Model 1858 Remington or Whitney revolver."

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Collar and cuffs have an interesting stripe.