Send a Rider!

[Nathan Stuart]

Excellent photography to capture these facial expressions.

In such a grim affair, it seems incongruous to witness so many soldiers in a line formation actually smiling or otherwise looking joyous. (We are so conditioned to viewing serious looking period portraits).

 

[Pollaco]

"Yeah but those men in blue could be policemen "'

 

[Gettmore]

I don't think she made it...

 

[bayouace]

Look of despair.

 

[gary]

Waiting for Uber-eats.

 

[Library Lady]

In connection with a prior picture (flock of 7 birds): "Tower to all incoming craft: Go around! Crash on field. Rolling ARFF. The field is closed."

 

[bayonet]

She didn't make it because he ate her! Buttons about to burst on that coat!

 

[JOHN42768]

What was that about cutting rations again?

 

[TerryB]

"Missy, I don't care if they do call you Omar the tent maker, that thang needs a lot more work."

 

[bankerpapaw]

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The tent or the dress?

 

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

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Ma'm, those columns extend way past the far mountain. There must be more than sixty thousand of them, maybe eighty thousand.

 

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

The tent or the dress?

Haha!

 

[Gettmore]

We are marching so slow, the drummer doesn't need to BEAT!

 

[bayouace]

Good facial expressions of feelings.

 

[bayonet]

you know thinks ain't going great when Great Grandpa in the middle joins the ranks to fight. And why is the drummer boy better feed than the rest of us?

 

[JOHN42768]

I can hear softly humming in the background "When Johnnie Comes Marching Home Again"

 

[gary]

Let us cross the river and rest beneath the shade of the tree - for the rest of the day!

 

[TerryB]

"How long did you say you was asleep, Grandpa Van Winkle?"

 

[JackADriscoll]

The war of the blue and gray and salt and pepper

 

[rebelatsea]

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Some he front rank seems to be looking for nasties in the grass, but I get a general impression of defeat.