Interesting Photo

[Dale Beasley]

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?

[Iceman]

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.

[Mark Lewis]

Re: Interesting Photo

Could he have bloated enough to pop those trouser buttons?

[lwtaggart]

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.

[lwtaggart]

Re: Interesting Photo

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

[Fred Adolphus]

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

[yeoman]

Re: Interesting Photo

Sir, here is the "link" to the other thread of this image and more images of the man in the background.

[halem2]

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