- Joined
- Aug 25, 2012
I may have seen those particle board stretchers before in period photographs, the question is we're the edges painted orange or some other color. We will never know due to the B&W photography sadly...wink.
They might not have cared. After all, Dan Sickles himself lit a cigar when he was carried off the field at Gettysburg after getting wounded. And according to this post he drank three cups of coffee while waiting for the docs.A while latter I walked by and he had a cigar in his mouth and a bottle of beer in his hand. I am not sure how period correct this was. It seems like Civil War soldiers would have known smoking while drinking in bed is dangerous.
His clothes are too clean, must be a new recruit!