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    Beautifully Tinted Image of a Connecticut Soldier

    I just stumbled across this beautifully tinted CDV of a Connecticut soldier. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it before!

    There seems to be something written on the back towards the top. Can anyone make it out? All I can make out for sure is "D" in the middle of the second line...part of a name maybe?

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    Last edited by FootsoreFederal; 11-28-2011, 09:34 PM.
    [B]Zachary Whitlow[/B]
    Liberty Rifles

    [I]"Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad I weigh a ton."[/I] - Thomas Starr King

    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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    Re: Beautifully Tinted Image of a Connecticut Soldier

    The top line says "blue overcoat"
    [B][/B][B][/B][B]Bill Slavin[/B]
    SUVCW, SVR,
    Liberty Guards Mess

    GG Grandson of [B]Pvt. Willis Shattuck[/B] (1842-1912), Co. F, 16th NY Vol Inf and Co. K, 73rd Ohio Vol Inf

    "[I]Dig [I]Johnnies! We're coming for you!"[/I][/I]
    Six foot seven inch tall Union Brigade Commander Newton Martin Curtis as he tossed a handful of shovels over the traverse at Fort Fisher. The shovels had been sent from the rear with the suggestion of entrenching for a siege.

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    • #3
      Re: Beautifully Tinted Image of a Connecticut Soldier

      Second line "Prints (?) D. (deep?) blue"
      Perhaps tinting instructions?
      [B][/B][B][/B][B]Bill Slavin[/B]
      SUVCW, SVR,
      Liberty Guards Mess

      GG Grandson of [B]Pvt. Willis Shattuck[/B] (1842-1912), Co. F, 16th NY Vol Inf and Co. K, 73rd Ohio Vol Inf

      "[I]Dig [I]Johnnies! We're coming for you!"[/I][/I]
      Six foot seven inch tall Union Brigade Commander Newton Martin Curtis as he tossed a handful of shovels over the traverse at Fort Fisher. The shovels had been sent from the rear with the suggestion of entrenching for a siege.

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        Re: Beautifully Tinted Image of a Connecticut Soldier

        Thanks Bill! I confess....I've always had trouble making out what period handwriting says.
        [B]Zachary Whitlow[/B]
        Liberty Rifles

        [I]"Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad I weigh a ton."[/I] - Thomas Starr King

        [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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        • #5
          Re: Beautifully Tinted Image of a Connecticut Soldier

          I think the second line is "Pants D blue." Bill Slavin's right, they're tinting instructions, and his overcoat is blue, while his pants are deep/dark blue.
          Yet another example, also, of how trousers weren't always called trousers.

          Hank Trent
          hanktrent@gmail.com
          Hank Trent

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          • #6
            Re: Beautifully Tinted Image of a Connecticut Soldier

            I agree- makes more sense
            [B][/B][B][/B][B]Bill Slavin[/B]
            SUVCW, SVR,
            Liberty Guards Mess

            GG Grandson of [B]Pvt. Willis Shattuck[/B] (1842-1912), Co. F, 16th NY Vol Inf and Co. K, 73rd Ohio Vol Inf

            "[I]Dig [I]Johnnies! We're coming for you!"[/I][/I]
            Six foot seven inch tall Union Brigade Commander Newton Martin Curtis as he tossed a handful of shovels over the traverse at Fort Fisher. The shovels had been sent from the rear with the suggestion of entrenching for a siege.

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            • #7
              Re: Beautifully Tinted Image of a Connecticut Soldier

              Originally posted by Hank Trent View Post
              Yet another example, also, of how trousers weren't always called trousers.

              Hank Trent
              hanktrent@gmail.com
              Actually just thought the same thing while reading one of the letters in the appendix in "Private Elisha Stockwell, Jr. sees the Civil War" (ed. B.R. Abernathy)....That's all.
              Bob Roeder

              "I stood for a time and cried as freely as boys do when things hurt most; alone among the dead, then covered his face with an old coat I ran away, for I was alone passing dead men all about as I went". Pvt. Nathaniel C. Deane (age 16, Co D 21st Mass. Inf.) on the death of his friend Pvt. John D. Reynolds, May 31, 1864.

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