Just passing the time

[frontrank2]

Two Union Soldiers playing cards and drinking some whiskey.

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

They look like two 18 year olds who have broken loose from the homestead and are doing all those crazy things they couldn't do at home….

 

[Gandycreek]

Great Image !

 

[G Low]

That's a fancy bottle of whiskey almost like Crown Royal. This fella is feeling it.

 

[frontrank2]

They look like two 18 year olds who have broken loose from the homestead and are doing all those crazy things they couldn't do at home….

Indulging in some Oh Be Joyful.

 

[7thWisconsin]

Don´t worry about us, Mother. The army will not have an evil influence on us.
Yes - that is a lovely bottle. It looks like it has a molded design. I love 19th century whisky bottle and want one like that!

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

And they took a picture to prove to the guys back home that they really are bad hombres

 

[7thWisconsin]

Anybody with really good eyes make out what hands they have? All I see are a lot of face cards!

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

Speaking of soldiers, playing cards, and the passing of time, these two "jokers" reminded me of a story that appeared last week in The Gettysburg Times newspaper's daily "Out Of The Past" feature. In 1925 the Red Cross in Gettysburg solicited used decks of playing cards to send to wounded World War I soldiers in hospitals. A local woman donated a deck of cards from 1863 that soldiers in a Gettysburg hospital had used after the battle. Can't help wondering whatever happened to those cards.

 

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

Two Union Soldiers playing cards and drinking some whiskey.

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Both hands are loaded with face cards!