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I just recently purchased this photo on Ebay. I have not seen many pictures of fifers.
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[I][COLOR="Blue"][SIZE="2"][FONT="Garamond"]Scott Davis
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Re: CDV Photo of Federal Fifer
Sir, I find your Carte de Visite interesting in several ways, his coat has a nice cuff detail along with the collar. Is that a corps badge or medal he has over his left breast? I can't tell what sort of brasses (if any) he is using, and can you tell what accouterment is on his belt. Nice photo to share, thanks.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"
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Re: CDV Photo of Federal Fifer
It almost looks like some sort of fife case! I haven't ever seen leather fife cases in period images...Tyler Mink
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Re: CDV Photo of Federal Fifer
Looks to me like the edge of fringed photographer's chair! Wicked awesome image, though.
Isn't that a Model F he's holding?! :tounge_smJason R. Wickersty
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Received. “How now about the fifth and sixth guns?”
Sent. “The sixth gun is the bully boy.”
Received. “Can you give it any directions to make it more bully?”
Sent. “Last shot was little to the right.”
Received. “Fearfully hot here. Several men sunstruck. Bullets whiz like fun. Have ceased firing for awhile, the guns are so hot."
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Re: CDV Photo of Federal Fifer
Originally posted by ThehosGendar View Post
hmm.... I will say this though...a quick recreation sitting, in a chair with fifes on hand... I bet thats a "c" fife
trying to recreat his positioning I found the b flat fife came up higher, the "c" seems to fit the bill
very cool pictureJoe Korber
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way to much to list
have a good one
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Re: CDV Photo of Federal Fifer
I too believe it is a "C" Firth and Pond. The ferrules look as if they are long as that model commonly had.[I][COLOR="Blue"][SIZE="2"][FONT="Garamond"]Scott Davis
Lost Drummer and Fifer[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/I]Comment
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Re: CDV Photo of Federal Fifer
Sir, was wondering if you had received your CDV and could you make out whats on his coat? Sir,as I take notice I also believe he is on a chair. If I may leave a small quote from Francis A. Lords "Civil War Collector's Encyclopedia" on the fife. "There was no finer inspiration for the men at the front than the first burst, crash, and roll of reveille, when a good fife and drum corps, with melodious shrill fifes rallied upon the color line and roused an entire regiment. The effect was intensified when, in a great army stretching out for miles, a single bugle-note gave the signal, and then, as by magic, from every direction broke out the accelerating roll of drums, the screech of fifes and the blare of bugles".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 officersComment
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