Confederate prisoners at Five Forks

[high_private78]

I've never seen this image and wondered if any of you have seen it. It has some great details, unfortunately I could not zoom in without losing clarity. Found it on the LOC site and it was titled "Confederate prisoners taken at Five Forks" enjoy

Jason Reasor

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Confederate prisoners at Five Forks

This photo has been published in a number off books. The silver bound time life series comes to mind.

[Charles Heath]

Re: Confederate prisoners at Five Forks

There is a nice enlargement of this photo printed and hung on the wall of the Five Forks visitor center. It shows some incredible detail, such as those uncovered bullseye canteens hanging off the rebs. It's almost worth a visit just to closely eyeball that old photograph once in a while.

Charles Heath

[Nighthawk]

Re: Confederate prisoners at Five Forks

There is a nice enlargement of this photo printed and hung on the wall of the Five Forks visitor center. It shows some incredible detail, such as those uncovered bullseye canteens hanging off the rebs. It's almost worth a visit just to closely eyeball that old photograph once in a while.

Charles Heath

Charles-
Last sumer Dean Nelson and I were looking at some of his stereo cards through his original stereo viewer. This photo was just incredible in stereo! The dips and depression in the terrain make the Confederates appear much smaller than they actually are, as they are on a downward sloping piece of ground. There is one man in the middle right, turned around glaring at the camera, and in stereo you can tell that he was one huge boy. I also loved the Yankee guard in the foreground picking his nose!
:tounge_sm

[RyanBWeddle]

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Charles-
Last sumer Dean Nelson and I were looking at some of his stereo cards through his original stereo viewer. This photo was just incredible in stereo! The dips and depression in the terrain make the Confederates appear much smaller than they actually are, as they are on a downward sloping piece of ground. There is one man in the middle right, turned around glaring at the camera, and in stereo you can tell that he was one huge boy. I also loved the Yankee guard in the foreground picking his nose!
:tounge_sm

It is a great photo, I always like the;

Beaten headgear (one man is wearing a dutch cap/ visor cap)
Blanket rolls & Knapsacks (don't start that BS line about 'rebs loaded up on gear before going to prison' :sarcastic )
The prevalence of federal canteens
The stupid federal guards turning away from the prisoners so they can get their picture taken (WATCH OUT boys! The rebs will escourglagate you! :tounge_sm )

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Confederate prisoners at Five Forks

See if my blow up turns out any better.

[CJSchumacher]

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See if my blow up turns out any better.

Charles' is right...there really is no better blow-up of that than at the Five Forks visitor center. Dean Nelson has a true gem in that original.

[markj]

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Speaking of prisoner photos, the below attachment shows interesting extracts from "Chattanooga, Tenn. Confederate prisoners at railroad depot]" from the LOC site. This image, as far as I know, was made in either late 1863 or sometime in 1864. Of most immediate interest are the blanket roll worn by the Federal guard, in the right foreground of the first image, and the "belt bag" worn by the Confederate POW in the center of the second image (the one leaning on a walking stick with his back to the camera).

Regards,

Mark Jaeger

[RN_PAC]

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That is a great picture. I have seen it before as well, in at least a couple of publications. I sure wish I could get it blown up clearly on my computer; images of confederates as they appear in the field are so few, precious, and far between; there is a lot to be learned from them. I have to chuckle, though; the federal guard at middle-distance ("nose-picker") looks like he is in the middle of a cell phone conversation! Not a very scholarly observation, but worth a smile ;-)

Tom Scoufalos

[JStiles]

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Can anyone provide some blown up portions of this image for us to examine? There's got to be literally hunderds of details in there! Jason W., can you hook us up bro?

Jerry Stiles

[Yellowhammer]

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Here are two details I used with Dean's permission in my article, "A Photographic Analysis of Federal Canteens in Confederate Service 1863-1865."

This one focuses on a group of uncovered US (or possibly CS copies) canteens on a group of prisoners.



Here is the bulk of the image:



Note that the Federals are heavy artillery troops and the foremost Yank is picking his nose.

[Minieball577]

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Here are two details I used with Dean's permission in my article, "A Photographic Analysis of Federal Canteens in Confederate Service 1863-1865."

John, Where or by whom is your article published? I would like to read it. Thanks.

[Yellowhammer]

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Chris,

It is on the SGLHA website at: http://www.southernguard.org/education/articles.html

[Minieball577]

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Chris,

It is on the SGLHA website at: http://www.southernguard.org/education/articles.html

Thanks John, I look forward to reading it!