Lt. (Although Shoulder/Cuff Braids Indicate Captain) Greenwall

[Zuzah]

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[TerryB]

He looks like he's wearing gloves.

 

[Nathanb1]

And a fake nose. Actually it looks like a fake head stuck on a bigger body. He should have beaten his tailor to a pulp.

 

[Zuzah]

He looks like he's wearing gloves.

I did see that but I can see a nail on his finger.

 

[tmh10]

He looks more like an undertaker than a soldier.

 

[Nathanb1]

I know I'm going to feel bad when I find out he died performing some incredible act of bravery.

Why do I do these things?

 

[tmh10]

I know I'm going to feel bad when I find out he died performing some incredible act of bravery.

Why do I do these things?

Because you can.

 

[Nathanb1]

Holy Cow. Wonder if this is him. The description sort of fits.

http://www.mdgorman.com/Written_Accounts/Other_Papers/southern_opinion,_11_23_1867.htm

One of those whom we believe suffered imprisonment wrongfully was Captain Greenwall, a young Englishman of the British service, who, like a few others of his countrymen, prompted by a love of adventure, or a real desire to aid the South, came over and landed at Charleston in 1863. Here he found employment in the corps of Topographical Corps of Engineers, but falling under the evil eye of suspicion, was arrested and forwarded to Castle Thunder.

Here the writer made his acquaintance, and found him intelligent, and even learned to a degree only attained by the higher classes of English society. He was handsome as he was intelligent. He stated he had served in the Crimean and Indian wars, but unfortunately had nothing to support his professions save his own averments. A long confinement in the dreary Castle followed, varied only by his frequent examinations before the authorities. Nothing was proven, and he was discharged. But his proud spirits were broken; he was thousands of miles from home, penniless, and though his wants would, in a measure, have been supplied by entering the Confederate service, he had not the heart to aid in the defence of a Government that had so unjustly and cruelly suspicioned his first honest intentions, and injured his names and honor Many is the time we have seen tears come into his fine eyes when any allusion to the subject of his treatment was made in his presence.

In his great need he found a good friend in the late A. Judson Crane, of this city, who allowed him the use of a room in his office for a bed-chamber, and supplied him with money.
He was a strange young man, and there was a mystery about him that he would not, and nobody else could, explain.

One day an English advertisement appeared in one of the Richmond newspapers, calling for information of Captain Greenwall, and warning him, if that notice should reach his eye, to return to England immediately, as a fortune awaited him. – Whether this notice was the genuine emanation from his family, or whether it was a very clever ruse on his part, we never learned; but Captain Greenwald disappeared from his accustomed haunts, and we saw him no more. We trust he is at home, happy and rich.

 

[Nathanb1]

Aha.

http://www.fortdonelsonrelics.com/cgi-bin/Display_Item.asp?979

 

[jessgettysburg1863]

He looks more like an undertaker than a soldier.

Not wrong there Ted !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jessgettysburg1863]

Terrific colouring job once again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[BBland]

He looks like he's wearing gloves.

They are gloves...but of what? Very thin calf skin?

 

[zumbawithcindy]

And a fake nose. Actually it looks like a fake head stuck on a bigger body. He should have beaten his tailor to a pulp.

A 19th century Eenspector Clouseau, een one of Professor Balls deesguises - nes pas?
But your photo work is incredible! Cudos

 

[zumbawithcindy]

They are gloves...but of what? Very thin calf skin?

Thats what they look like to me

 

[zumbawithcindy]

Holy Cow. Wonder if this is him. The description sort of fits.

http://www.mdgorman.com/Written_Accounts/Other_Papers/southern_opinion,_11_23_1867.htm

Wow - he does have a look of English aristocracy about him - what an odd looking gentleman - Could he be somewhat disguised in that photo? That is really an odd looking uniform, he's not wearing a saber either, which seems to exacerbate the odd look. Thank you for the link - I was unaware of Castle Thunder. ~ Cindy

 

[TerryB]

He was also a special detective who came to the notice of CS authorities who were inquiring into his status---was he in the military or not? they wanted to know.

 

[TerryB]

Who is this guy?, they ask.

 

[TerryB]

"Mr. Greenwall's employment as special agent of the Bureau of Conscription ceased on the 25th of Jany, 1864."

He was actually getting paid to bring in deserters.

 

[zumbawithcindy]

Wow! A genuine man of mystery - that very well may be a disguise - or just a bounty hunter??

 

[TerryB]

It gets better. In Oct 1864, he applied for a passport in New York City, and was vouched for by someone from New York. He claimed to be a loyal US citizen. He got out of there a month before the New York fire-bombing incident. Lt. R. Cobb Kennedy, who was hanged for his part in it, was also from Louisiana. Coincidence?

I'm guessing he was a detective of some sort before the war. Born in 1838, he was 26 at the time he applied.