Tintype Tuesday #25

[Manassas 1861]

Here's an ambrotype of two Johnnies and one civilian. Possibly brothers. I have to say it, the guy on the left has some awesome hair! LOC

 

[RedRover]

Here's an ambrotype of two Johnnies and one civilian. Possibly brothers. I have to say it, the on the left has some awesome hair! LOCView attachment 542162

Citizen's clothing was commonly worn in the Confederate Army. Prisoners from Island No. 10:

From Virginia in mid-1862...

From Louisiana in the Summer of 1862, the 31st Massachusetts recalled,

Here's some prisoners from Ashby's Virginia Cavalry in the spring of 1862, before receiving any government uniforms...

Col. Higginson of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers (USA) noted of Confederate prisoners in 1863 near the Florida border...

Among some of the 5th Virginia Cavalry captured at Aldie in June, 1863 several in citizen's clothes etc.

Among Mosby's Battalion of Partisan rangers, the uniform was simply "something gray" on the person...

Conrad Wise Chapman of Wise's Brigade painted this image of a "picket" in a citizen's coat, 1863...

Here is a photo of Walton Coffman of the 11th VA Cavalry, taken just days before his death at Fisher's Hill in April, 1863.

Some of the rebs of the Army of Tennessee captured near Atlanta in mid-1864.

During the march to the sea, veterans of the 92nd Illinois noted many rebs just wore common "butternut" colored homespun clothes yet...

In early 1865 Allen C. Redwood visited his old friends of the 55th Virginia Volunteers of Lee's army in the lines about Richmond and Petersburg...

 

[Caddo Militia]

In May 1863, Col. Arthur Lyon Fremantle observed Walker's Texas Greyhounds: "On approaching Munroe, we passed through the camp of Walker's division (8,000 strong), which was on its march from Arkansas to meet Banks . . . The men were well armed with rifles and bayonets, but they were dressed in ragged civilian clothes."