civilwarincolor
2nd Lieutenant
- Joined
- Oct 27, 2012
- Location
- California
OK, I have to admit some bias on this image. This is the image I am using for my avatar and is my GGG Grandfather. He was a private in Company A, Sixth North Carolina State Troops.
According to the records I found he enlisted on September 15, 1862 and his unit participated at Antietam on the 17th. I would be surprised if he personally had managed to make it from North Carolina to Maryland in two days, but I do know that he did participate at Gettysburg the following year. In November of 1863 he was captured at Rappahannock Station and basically set out the rest of the war being paroled in February of 1865 and showing on the hospital muster role on March.
I had done this image before from a scan of the image that had been uploaded by Bruce Zigler, also a descendant of Knott and a distant relation to me. Last year he contacted me and had seen the color version that I was using as my avatar. I asked him if he had a larger scan and he was kind enough to send one to me.
The larger version though had the same issues with the missing portion of the rifle. I had done some of the restoration work, but really had wanted to be able to have the entire rifle showing. With the end of the barrel missing I put the project aside till this week.
What I decided to do was to find an image of the Spencer rifle he is holding and overlay it onto the B&W. With it enlarged to the proper size and turned to match the angle I traced the outline of the rifle and then carefully copied the missing portions from the existing rifle out to the end of the gun. I also traced out the butt of the rifle so that I had the proper size and shape for that as well.
Overall I am happy with the results and decided to show the various versions, the B&W I had used for my original avatar, a color version that Bruce Zigler had done a few years ago, my original avatar version and finally my current version of the image.
Please let me know what you think.
The B&W version used for my original avatar:
Color version done by Bruce Zigler (descendant of Knott)
Color version I used for my original avatar:
Larger version with restoration to the rifle:
According to the records I found he enlisted on September 15, 1862 and his unit participated at Antietam on the 17th. I would be surprised if he personally had managed to make it from North Carolina to Maryland in two days, but I do know that he did participate at Gettysburg the following year. In November of 1863 he was captured at Rappahannock Station and basically set out the rest of the war being paroled in February of 1865 and showing on the hospital muster role on March.
I had done this image before from a scan of the image that had been uploaded by Bruce Zigler, also a descendant of Knott and a distant relation to me. Last year he contacted me and had seen the color version that I was using as my avatar. I asked him if he had a larger scan and he was kind enough to send one to me.
The larger version though had the same issues with the missing portion of the rifle. I had done some of the restoration work, but really had wanted to be able to have the entire rifle showing. With the end of the barrel missing I put the project aside till this week.
What I decided to do was to find an image of the Spencer rifle he is holding and overlay it onto the B&W. With it enlarged to the proper size and turned to match the angle I traced the outline of the rifle and then carefully copied the missing portions from the existing rifle out to the end of the gun. I also traced out the butt of the rifle so that I had the proper size and shape for that as well.
Overall I am happy with the results and decided to show the various versions, the B&W I had used for my original avatar, a color version that Bruce Zigler had done a few years ago, my original avatar version and finally my current version of the image.
Please let me know what you think.
The B&W version used for my original avatar:
Color version done by Bruce Zigler (descendant of Knott)
Color version I used for my original avatar:
Larger version with restoration to the rifle: