"Southern Commanders"

[E_just_E]

Not quite sure the origin of this item (but I suspect that it was a souvenir-type celebratory thing). Pretty certain that this is a massed produced composite and these gentlemen never sat in a room together like this:

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Interesting to see who is included and who is missing.

and the devil is in the details. Here is the bottom words, with upped contrast and enlarged:

The origin of this is pretty amusing...

 

[1950lemans]

Who's in the picture?

 

[Drew]

They didn't sit for the picture together. It's a post-war composite. I've forgotten the officer standing at the extreme left, but the rest standing are Hood, Longstreet, Jackson, Lee, Johnston and Beauregard. Seated are Jeff Davis and That Guy. It never happened that way.

 

[E_just_E]

They didn't sit for the picture together. It's a post-war composite. I've forgotten the officer standing at the extreme left, but the rest standing are Hood, Longstreet, Jackson, Lee, Johnston and Beauregard. Seated are Jeff Davis and That Guy. It never happened that way.

Other than Davis:

Anderson (I think), Hood, Stuart, Jackson, Lee, Forrest, J. Johnston & Beauregard.

 

[roberts]

Raphael Semmes on the left...

 

[Drew]

You're right, E, I missed Anderson and mixed JL with Stuart. It's a neat pic, though.

 

[AndyHall]

Extreme left is Rafael Semmes, of C.S.S. Alabama and blowing-up-the-James-River-Squadron fame.

 

[AndyHall]

Albert Sidney Johnston's picture is on the wall at right.

 

[Drew]

OK, stand corrected. Here's another of Semmes, pretty well matches.

 

[E_just_E]

Extreme left is Rafael Semmes, of C.S.S. Alabama and blowing-up-the-James-River-Squadron fame.

Thank you! I just could not figure how JR Anderson can make it into this. I declare massive ignorance of the faces of confederate navy officers.

 

[roberts]

Union Commanders...also from Notman Photo, 1885

Farragut, Sherman, Thomas, Meade, Lincoln, Grant, Hooker, Sheridan, Hancock

 

[AndyHall]

Grant in mufti? Maybe this was done during his presidency?

 

[ole]

Grant in mufti? Maybe this was done during his presidency?

There was no tree for him to lean against.

 

[Lost Cause]

They didn't sit for the picture together. It's a post-war composite. I've forgotten the officer standing at the extreme left, but the rest standing are Hood, Longstreet, Jackson, Lee, Johnston and Beauregard. Seated are Jeff Davis and That Guy. It never happened that way.

Longstreet did not make the cut.

 

[Drew]

Longstreet did not make the cut.

Not after the war, he didn't. But he made it when it was being waged. At least I think General Lee thought so.

 

[Lost Cause]

Not after the war, he didn't. But he made it when it was being waged. At least I think General Lee thought so.

I meant in the picture.

 

[E_just_E]

Grant in mufti? Maybe this was done during his presidency?

Yeah. That is a fat Grant.

 

[Lost Cause]

Ha, ha! Farragut's in there twice! In your face, Sheridan!

They certainly decorated Sheridan.

 

[E_just_E]

Here is a recent rendition, with much more "wow" factor on the choices:

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[roberts]

Albert Sidney Johnston's picture is on the wall at right.

Covering the other art work shown on the Southern Commanders, the Confederate Capitol in Richmond is shown upper left, the seal of the Confederacy with its equestrian George Washington is centered on the arched tableau, on the right is a photograph of the Capitol Square statue of Stonewall Jackson newly (1875) presented to Virginia by a group of English gentlemen, lower left is the CSS Alabama, and lower right is the CSS Virgina versus the USS Cumberland. I believe that the center painting shows the bombardment of Fort Sumter. I don't have a clue on the other two...

You got your money's worth on this free giveaway from Traverler's Insurance! There was an earlier version that had A B Hill instead of Semmes and Longstreet in place of Forrest.