Tintype Tuesday #19

[Manassas 1861]

Sorry for missing TTT for the past two weeks. This Union cavalry soldier carries the 1818 Nathan Starr cavalry saber. LOC.

 

[on again]

Not the only Civil war Soldier with a 50 year old sword!

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and Virginia sword belt plate with revolver and cavalry sword]

1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.2 cm (case)

www.loc.gov

 

[on again]

Union soldier with 50 year old Hall Rifle!

File:Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and Company B hat, with Hall breech loading carbine rifle, Colt revolver, and cavalry sword LCCN2012648979.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

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[on again]

Union cavalryman with a modern sharps rifle...but I think his sword dates to the war of 1812!

File:Corporal Elias Warner or Warnear of Company K, 3rd New York Cavalry Regiment with 1852 Slant Breech Sharps carbine and cavalry saber LCCN2011648538.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

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Some More pictures of the Blue
16th New York Infantry

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/348747564866788787/

And the Gray [including VMI]

behind AotW » Blog Archive » Captain Morrison’s red day at Sharpsburg

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