Tennessee C.S.A.

[TayNinh46]

Is anyone familiar with metal insignia consisting of the letters "TG" on the front band of kepis worn by members of the 20th Tennessee Cavalry C.S.A.? If so, what does it designate, Tennessee Guard perhaps? Any help is appreciated, Lee

 

[Salterr]

Is anyone familiar with metal insignia consisting of the letters "TG" on the front band of kepis worn by members of the 20th Tennessee Cavalry C.S.A.? If so, what does it designate, Tennessee Guard perhaps? Any help is appreciated, Lee

Any photos?

 

[Rhea Cole]

The "Tennessee Guard" or "Tennessee State Guard" was a reconstruction era force. There are no references to a Confederate Tennessee Guard. Read more here.

Link:

https://repository.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2962&context=cwbr

The 20th ( or 15th ) Tennessee ( Russell's ) Cavalry was organized in February 1864. It was recruited from six counties which would likely preclude the often fanciful monikers given early war companies.

Link:

Battle Unit Details - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

Reference to 20th TN Cavalry with photo w/o badge on kepi. Read more here.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/981784787523425145/

In the absence of a photographic reference, there isn't anything to go by for further research.

 

[Sheltowee]

The "Tennessee Guard" or "Tennessee State Guard" was a reconstruction era force. There are no references to a Confederate Tennessee Guard. Read more here.

Link:

https://repository.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2962&context=cwbr

The 20th ( or 15th ) Tennessee ( Russell's ) Cavalry was organized in February 1864. It was recruited from six counties which would likely preclude the often fanciful monikers given early war companies.

Link:

Battle Unit Details - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

Reference to 20th TN Cavalry with photo w/o badge on kepi. Read more here.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/981784787523425145/

In the absence of a photographic reference, there isn't anything to go by for further research.

Nice photo. Looks like he has some kind of "neck beard" going on?

 

[Salterr]

Nice photo. Looks like he has some kind of "neck beard" going on?

10/10 on that beard, that stare though

 

[Trooper "D"]

Is anyone familiar with metal insignia consisting of the letters "TG" on the front band of kepis worn by members of the 20th Tennessee Cavalry C.S.A.? If so, what does it designate, Tennessee Guard perhaps? Any help is appreciated, Lee

Is there possibly a town or county starting with "T" that would fit before the "Guards" idea. Edmin Ruffin wore a hat with "FG" for Fayetteville Guards in one of his famous photos. Maybe there is something up that neck of the woods.
Cheers!

 

[Rhea Cole]

Is there possibly a town or county starting with "T" that would fit before the "Guards" idea. Edmin Ruffin wore a hat with "FG" for Fayetteville Guards in one of his famous photos. Maybe there is something up that neck of the woods.
Cheers!

As an illustrator I had to spend all kinds of no internet hours chasing down obscure details at the library & wherever. Sometimes something like the letters should be his honey's initials… who knows?

 

[Trooper "D"]

As an illustrator I had to spend all kinds of no internet hours chasing down obscure details at the library & wherever. Sometimes something like the letters should be his honey's initials… who knows?

Yes. Sometimes we chase our tails. Hey, whatever happened to that illustrator kid? I cant find his original question. I haven t tried that hard but I thought you might know something.
Cheers!

 

[Rhea Cole]

Yes. Sometimes we chase our tails. Hey, whatever happened to that illustrator kid? I cant find his original question. I haven t tried that hard but I thought you might know something.
Cheers!

I don't know. Obviously, it iis a subject of interest interest to me. We certainly gave him a lot of excellent source material.

 

[Trooper "D"]

I don't know. Obviously, it iis a subject of interest interest to me. We certainly gave him a lot of excellent source material.

Yes. Interest to me as well. Still thinking of doing that impression. Bohemian Brigade used to have a website where artists could show their work and folks could brainstorm ideas. Might still be up.
Here's one of my sketches from the "Battlefield of the Mind". Thought you might appreciate it.
Cheers!

 

[TayNinh46]

Any photos?

The image is too dark to reproduce but is identified as Benjamin Franklin Blackmon

 

[Salterr]

The image is too dark to reproduce but is identified as Benjamin Franklin Blackmon

Thanks for trying. I don't think I could help without a photo unfortunately. I'm the insignia person on this forum but couldn't find pictures online.

 

[DixieRifles]

Yes. Interest to me as well. Still thinking of doing that impression. Bohemian Brigade used to have a website where artists could show their work and folks could brainstorm ideas. Might still be up.
Here's one of my sketches from the "Battlefield of the Mind". Thought you might appreciate it.
Cheers!

Years ago, I saw a photo of a reenactor artillery crew firing a cannon similar to your sketch. The image captured the second of anticipation waiting for charge to ignite.
I was interested in Napoleonic uniforms so I used the photo to design a small diorama of French artillery gun crew.
I would post a photo of it but that may be considered off topic — and I cant upload photos from my iPhone. I uploaded in the Games and Miniatures folder.

 

[Trooper "D"]

Years ago, I saw a photo of a reenactor artillery crew firing a cannon similar to your sketch. The image captured the second of anticipation waiting for charge to ignite.
I was interested in Napoleonic uniforms so I used the photo to design a small diorama of French artillery gun crew.
I would post a photo of it but that may be considered off topic — and I cant upload photos from my iPhone. I uploaded in the Games and Miniatures folder.

I'll have to look that up.
Cheers!

 

[DixieRifles]

I'll have to look that up.

Well, I may have fixed a setting in my iPhone that lets me post an image. This is only a test.

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Note the guy with his finger in his ear.

 

[Trooper "D"]

Well, I may have fixed a setting in my iPhone that lets me post an image. This is only a test.

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Note the guy with his finger in his ear.

Oh cool. Waiting for the next shoe to drop. Nice work! It feels just like when firing artillery when there is a lag on the firing. Flintlocks are the same and even percussion after much fighting and firing the nipple gets clogged and the little passage way to the chamber is the same.

 

[Trooper "D"]

Well, I may have fixed a setting in my iPhone that lets me post an image. This is only a test.

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Note the guy with his finger in his ear.

My sketches has the guns captain tapping the trail to get on target. The guy with the hand spike is ready to move the trail in the direction the gun captain taps.
For making that up in my head and drawing it. I think I have a good feel for the sketch. It needs finalizing so until then its just a scene sketched from memory. I like the sketchy illustrations that those correspondents did. Alfred Waud made many of those. So it seems we both have a knack for creating art with human details as your two guys on the left are leaning away from the blast and once plugging ear. Great detail

 

[DixieRifles]

I like the sketchy illustrations that those correspondents did. Alfred Waud made many of those. So it seems we both have a knack for creating art with human details as your two guys on the left are leaning away from the blast and once plugging ear. Great detail

Don't include me in that. I need something to trace. My elementary school buddy held drawing class during recess in 4th Grade. He taught us how to draw a B-17. That kid could draw a WW2 fighter a/c and you could recognize if it was a B model or a E model. He also added a 3-D effect with a vanishing point.
I just stuck with painting the figures.

Notice, I included one figure as the observer. He is hidden behind the two on the left with his shako in his arms and just watching.

 

[Trooper "D"]

Don't include me in that. I need something to trace. My elementary school buddy held drawing class during recess in 4th Grade. He taught us how to draw a B-17. That kid could draw a WW2 fighter a/c and you could recognize if it was a B model or a E model. He also added a 3-D effect with a vanishing point.
I just stuck with painting the figures.

Notice, I included one figure as the observer. He is hidden behind the two on the left with his shako in his arms and just watching.

The painting and positiining of the figures is an art form that not everybody can do. And then creating the diorama thing. That powder smoke from touch hole really captures the tension of the moment. Closest things to bring to life the past before cameras is painting. You. Paint in 3 dimensional canvas and create a scene that captures a moment that could have been. You have period accurate clothing. The hair styles. The equipment, and how it was used and positioned on the field. I think it as extremely well done.
Do your mold your own soldiers or buy model kits.