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Re: Your Choice: Standing Post-Mortem, or nice regulation armed soldier portrait.
What the heck, might as well throw in too.
Did anyone try to find into on the man thisis suposedly of, Elias A Whipple? Here's what I found through a quick Google:
"39.Whipple, Elias A., Home: Almer, AAE: 19, Rnk: Pvt., DLE: 22 March 1864 Almer, Other Info: Died while on furlough, TLDD: Died Almer Mich. 20 December 1864. Cemetery Almer Township Caro Mich."
Source: http://www.oocities.org/pvtchurch61/2inf/I/BioQtoZ.html
I believe it was taken when he enlisted, not when he died. The evidence is all there: Clean uniform, shoulder scales, tiddy hair and face, black leathers, shiny rifle, shiny brass. And that the goofy-looking-left-hand, it's not so goofing looking if he's doing it by the book and if he's a fresh fish, everything was more likely "by-the-book":
OK, ok, I know, he could have polished up while on leave to get this image done for his wife, sweetheart or mother. However, according to Michigan soldiers' records of service, he enlisted on March 22nd, BUT didn't join the regiment until June 27th, 1864
Source:http://books.google.com/books?id=SnN...page&q&f=false:
He had some ample time to get a nice studio shot in his new duds! The regiment traveled from big city to big city early in 1864 - Detroit, Annapolis and Washington.
The puffy face. My dad gets that sort of face in photos, where the chin tucks in and makes it look a bit puffy at the throat; yes, I fear I may have this look at some point in my life! haha
Anyhow, my few barks.
Best,
What the heck, might as well throw in too.
Did anyone try to find into on the man thisis suposedly of, Elias A Whipple? Here's what I found through a quick Google:
"39.Whipple, Elias A., Home: Almer, AAE: 19, Rnk: Pvt., DLE: 22 March 1864 Almer, Other Info: Died while on furlough, TLDD: Died Almer Mich. 20 December 1864. Cemetery Almer Township Caro Mich."
Source: http://www.oocities.org/pvtchurch61/2inf/I/BioQtoZ.html
I believe it was taken when he enlisted, not when he died. The evidence is all there: Clean uniform, shoulder scales, tiddy hair and face, black leathers, shiny rifle, shiny brass. And that the goofy-looking-left-hand, it's not so goofing looking if he's doing it by the book and if he's a fresh fish, everything was more likely "by-the-book":
OK, ok, I know, he could have polished up while on leave to get this image done for his wife, sweetheart or mother. However, according to Michigan soldiers' records of service, he enlisted on March 22nd, BUT didn't join the regiment until June 27th, 1864
Source:http://books.google.com/books?id=SnN...page&q&f=false:
He had some ample time to get a nice studio shot in his new duds! The regiment traveled from big city to big city early in 1864 - Detroit, Annapolis and Washington.
The puffy face. My dad gets that sort of face in photos, where the chin tucks in and makes it look a bit puffy at the throat; yes, I fear I may have this look at some point in my life! haha
Anyhow, my few barks.
Best,
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