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  • Re: Interesting Photo

    - The right hip is broken. The right leg is shorter and turned out, could be why his pants are unbutton checking his hip in the process. ..."Up and Out" is the triage rule.
    - Could he have fallen? Thus causing the fractured hip and the large amount of blood to is head, brain injuries will cause this, especially if there is a wound which is caused by blunt force.
    - Could he have fallen from Mule/horseback? Or could it have been a percussion explosion with the broken swab to his right?

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    • Re: Interesting Photo

      Here's the story on the black guy in the background; yes, he is black, but he's a live and well. He was a teamster / assistant to the photographer who laid down in this photo for dramatic effect. In other photos taken that day by the photographer, you can see this same black man, wearing the same clothing, etc., alive and well. He was a living prop for a staged photo. He's not a black Confederate, or a Confederate wearing a civilian vest, or anything like that. And yes, the real KIA Confederate took a piece of shell between the eyes. On a close up view of his body, you can make out the chunk of iron sticking out from his forehead.
      Nic Clark
      2017 - 24 years in the hobby
      Proud co-founder of the Butcherknife Roughnecks

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      • Re: Interesting Photo

        Could he have bloated enough to pop those trouser buttons?
        Mark G. Lewis

        Formerly with the "State's Rights Guard" & the 10th Texas @ Pickett's Mill

        "I was told that even if a regiment was clothed in proper uniform by the Government, it would be parti-colored again in a week, as the soldiers preferred wearing the coarse home-spun jackets and trousers made by their mothers and sisters at home. The Generals very wisely allow them to please themselves in this respect"~Freemantle~

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        • Re: Interesting Photo

          My first glance at this strikes me that the civilan clothed gent looks african american. Anyone else seeing ths?

          George Taggart
          Lee Lodge #30 F.& A. M.
          George Taggart

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          • Re: Interesting Photo

            Originally posted by RyanBWeddle View Post
            I don't believe I am being hasty, maybe it's reading that way, we just need to keep our options open, as this is all guesswork.

            As to the background fella, look at the close up I posted earlier... The skin tone is light around the face, etc. I believe that is whitey.

            Very comman skin pigment disorder in blacks is called vitiligo. The skin shows large areas of white from pigment

            breakdown. Some cases even in white people.

            George Taggart
            Last edited by lwtaggart; 01-08-2011, 10:10 PM. Reason: spelling error
            George Taggart

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            • Re: Interesting Photo

              The black "body" in the background is posed by a live man for effect. Roche took a photo of this same individual, wearing the same clothes the following day, and he was quite alive.

              Needless to say, the Confederate body is not posed.

              v/r,

              Fred Adolphus

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              • Re: Interesting Photo

                Sir, here is the "link" to the other thread of this image and more images of the man in the background.
                Last edited by yeoman; 01-09-2011, 10:44 AM. Reason: "link"
                Mel Hadden, Husband to Julia Marie, Maternal Great Granddaughter of
                Eben Lowder, Corporal, Co. H 14th Regiment N.C. Troops (4th Regiment N.C. Volunteers, Co. H, The Stanly Marksmen) Mustered in May 5, 1861, captured April 9, 1865.
                Paternal Great Granddaughter of James T. Martin, Private, Co. I, 6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment Senior Reserves, (76th Regiment N.C. Troops)

                "Aeterna Numiniet Patriae Asto"

                CWPT
                www.civilwar.org.

                "We got rules here!"

                The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

                Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Being for the most part contributations by Union and Confederate officers

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                • Re: Interesting Photo

                  This photo is part of a series that was shot by Roche. In another of the photos the man in the background is very much alive, as he is Roche's assistant. Thus the reason he is wearing civilian clothes.

                  Mark Hale
                  Dept. of Georgia & South Carolina
                  SUVCW
                  Last edited by Eric Tipton; 01-29-2016, 09:37 PM. Reason: Added signature.
                  Mark Hale
                  Dept. of Georgia & South Carolina
                  SUVCW

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