Friendliest Officer

[ColonelBuckwalter]

I've seen who is the scariest looking officer. But who is the friendliest looking? My vote goes to McPherson. He looks like he heard a good joke.

 

[Sivart]

I've gotta go with this guy posted by @SDolson822

He looks like he's a pretty fun guy!

Union officer clowning around in a portrait | Period Photos & Examinations

A photo that I recently found online. It is very interesting, and shows that all of these men were human, too. They are not all the overtly serious and imposing figures we often see in photos, they had emotion and a sense of humor. The photo is reportedly a quarter-plate tintype of an unknown...

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[ColonelBuckwalter]

I've gotta go with this guy posted by @SDolson822
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He looks like he's a pretty fun guy!

Union officer clowning around in a portrait | Period Photos & Examinations

A photo that I recently found online. It is very interesting, and shows that all of these men were human, too. They are not all the overtly serious and imposing figures we often see in photos, they had emotion and a sense of humor. The photo is reportedly a quarter-plate tintype of an unknown...

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I love that photo.

 

[121st PA Vols]

 

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

I'll go with the friendliest looking being Admiral Farragut.

 

[ColonelBuckwalter]

I'll go with the friendliest looking being Admiral Farragut.
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I never thought he could smile.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

I've seen who is the scariest looking officer. But who is the friendliest looking? My vote goes to McPherson. He looks like he heard a good joke. View attachment 542245

When @Sivart posted the fun thread about the scariest looking officer, I was hoping someone would start a thread about the friendliest looking.

 

[ColonelBuckwalter]

Sibley

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

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Sibley

Yes indeed.

He looks like a Grandfather watching his Grandchildren about to bust into the room on a Christmas morning.

 

[ColonelBuckwalter]

Yes indeed.

He looks like a Grandfather watching his Grandchildren about to bust into the room on a Christmas morning.

Or waiting for happy hour.

 

[Nathan Stuart]

Given the era norm for stern looking poses with military bearing, thought it difficult to identify a friendly-looking officer's portrait from their photographs alone. (McPherson above, is probably the closest to be found).

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Or waiting for happy hour.

Yep.

Kind of like Confederate General William Barksdale hearing the Quartermaster's report that five wagon loads of Kentucky Bourbon had been captured earlier in the day.

 

[nc native]

Yep.

Kind of like Confederate General William Barksdale hearing the Quartermaster's report that five wagon loads of Kentucky Bourbon had been captured earlier in the day.

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This painting gives William Barksdale a head full of hair he didn't have in real life but he does look like he knows how to have a good time. During the 1850s when Barksdale was in the House of Representatives, a fist fight that was on the verge of becoming a full scale riot broke out. When someone knocked Barksdale's topuee off of his head, the resulting laughter brought the brawl to an end.

 

[TallTallMan]

Ol' Rosey.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

This painting gives William Barksdale a head full of hair he didn't have in real life but he does look like he knows how to have a good time. During the 1850s when Barksdale was in the House of Representatives, a fist fight that was on the verge of becoming a full scale riot broke out. When someone knocked Barksdale's topuee off of his head, the resulting laughter brought the brawl to an end.

Very true.
I personally know many of his offspring.
All of these Barksdales are brilliant and wild.

But I do think General William appears to be a friendly looking fellow.

 

[TallTallMan]

Very true.
I personally know many of his offspring.
All of these Barksdales are brilliant and wild.

But I do think General William appears to be a friendly looking fellow.

You mean the guy who played him in Gettysburg?

 

[ColonelBuckwalter]

Yep.

Kind of like Confederate General William Barksdale hearing the Quartermaster's report that five wagon loads of Kentucky Bourbon had been captured earlier in the day.

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I had extended family in the 17th Mississippi under Barksdale at Gettysburg.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

You mean the guy who played him in Gettysburg?

Not sure.

Ive never properly watched that flick from "start to finish" .
It's way too long for my taste.

Plus the goofy fake beards/fake accents only made me laugh.

 

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

Not sure.

Ive never properly watched that flick from "start to finish" .
It's way too long for my taste.

Plus the goofy fake beards/fake accents only made me laugh.

I would love to watch a well-done 5-hour movie about any major campaign or battle, with a couple of 5-minute breaks of course.

 

[ColonelBuckwalter]

Ol' Rosey.

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Rosey was a notch under Early for general (pun intended) vulgarity.