Sailor with telescope

[frontrank2]

A Union Sailor poses with a telescope on the deck of the USS New Hampshire, circa - 1864.

 

[Larryh86GT]

Great photo. Serious telescope. Neat threaded elevation gadget on the cannon.

 

[Robert Gray]

This is one of a series of photos photographer Samuel A. Cooley made of the New Hampshire crew when the ship was stationed off Port Royal, South Carolina. The gun in the picture is a 100-pounder Parrott rifle. The ship was armed with four of these in addition to
six 9 in Dahlgren guns. This is from the negative.

 

[frontrank2]

This is one of a series of photos photographer Samuel A. Cooley made of the New Hampshire crew when the ship was stationed off Port Royal, South Carolina. The gun in the picture is a 100-pounder Parrott rifle. The ship was armed with four of these in addition to
six 9 in Dahlgren guns. This is from the negative.

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I like seeing all those cutlasses mounted on the wall, ready for action at a moment's notice.

 

[Larryh86GT]

I like seeing all those cutlasses mounted on the wall, ready for action at a moment's notice.

That is neat.

 

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

That is neat.

I didn't even notice them the first time I glanced at the photo.

 

[Larryh86GT]

I didn't even notice them the first time I glanced at the photo.

I didn't either. Now I like to imagine that the 2 I have hanging up were in the photo

 

[Dan Kohli]

That's a pretty thick rope to restrain the cannon.

 

[Pollaco]

Confederate $5.00 with a Sailor holding a telescope

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[Rhea Cole]

The badge on the sailor's sleeve indicates that he is a petty officer.

During the Civil War there was no badge that indicated petty officer's specialty.

Regulations;

Boatswain's mates, gunner's mates, carpenter's mates, sailmakers' mates and ship's cook, will wear, embroidered in white silk, on the right sleeve of their blue jackets, above the elbow, in front, and eagle and anchor, of not more than three inches in length, with a star of one inch in diameter one inch above. The same device, embroidered in blue, to be worn on the sleeves of their white frocks in summer.

All other petty officers, except officers's stewards, will wear the same device on their left sleeves.

Petty officers had to embroider their own sleeve patch or purchase them from a sutler / chandler.

Unless the image is flopped, the image is of an ".., all other… " petty officer.

 

[Lampasas Bill]

Unless the image is flopped, the image is of an ".., all other… " petty officer.

You can tell that the image has not been flopped by the hand guards on the cutlasses and the lettering on the case below them.

 

[Rhea Cole]

You can tell that the image has not been flopped by the hand guards on the cutlasses and the lettering on the case below them.

"All Other Petty Officer" it is then.