Tintype Tuesday #5

[Manassas 1861]

A Union Volunteer with frock coat, pistols, a fighting knife, and white buff leather accoutrements. LOC.

 

[scooter748driver]

Wow. He's loaded for a whole sleuth of bears!

 

[Pollaco]

Yankees carried knives?

 

[Pollaco]

This could almost fit on your last thread about skinny soldiers

 

[Manassas 1861]

This could almost fit on your last thread about skinny soldiers

I guess I could. But this guy isn't nearly as skinny as the other guy.

 

[Manassas 1861]

It looks like he's also wearing a rubberized kepi.

 

[Nathan Stuart]

It appears that this featured young soldier seemed determined to not limit his options in anticipation of close quarter fighting - the bayonet, two pistols and a combat knife.

Or was the display of such a wide array of handheld weaponry merely for show in the photograph.

 

[Manassas 1861]

It appears that this featured young soldier seemed determined to not limit his options in anticipation for any close quarter fighting - the bayonet, two pistols and a combat knife.

Or was the display of such a wide array of handheld weaponry merely for show in the photograph.

Most photographers (in my opinion northern photographers) took photos of soldiers with weapons as props. Ive seen with 1-3 pistols, or 3 knifes as props. So they were probably just props.