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    I hate this guy.



    I hate this guy.

    Perhaps I'm being totally ignorant to the fact that he could have been major player in Washington during the war, but, at this moment, I don't care who he is. He's really on my nerves.

    He's in practically every picture taken in Washington! At least 8! He's like one of those annoying "woo!" guys that walk by a news reporter, realizes that "Cripes! I was just on T.V.!" and runs back into frame to make faces and thuggy hand gestures. And look! He's even got the thuggy hand gestures! He's the original "woo" guy!

    Get the hell out of the picture! I'm sick of seeing you! Lens hog!

    I'm sorry. That's been brewing for a while, and I needed to get it out. Ahhh... Back to rotting my eyes out.
    Jason R. Wickersty
    http://www.newblazingstarpress.com

    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."

    - O.R.s, Series 1, Volume 26, Part 1, pg 86.
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  • #2
    Re: I hate this guy.

    Jason,
    Maybe you should nap more often :)
    Don Smith (non-sewing)

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    • #3
      Twilight zone

      I dunno... he looks a little on the farby side. Could he be some guy from the Future who went behind the scenes in D.C. to manipulate the Present? :p


      Tom Smith 4th Dimensional Mess
      Tom Smith, 2nd Lt. T.E.
      Nobel Grand Humbug, Al XXI,
      Chapt. 1.5 De la Guerra y Pacheco
      Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus
      Topographer for: TAG '03, BGR, Spring Hill, Marmeduke's Raid, & ITPW

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      • #4
        Re: I hate this guy.

        Farby? Nah
        [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

        Aaron Schwieterman
        Cincinnati

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        • #5
          Re: I hate this guy.

          Jason,
          Could you post some other images of him?
          Bill Lawson

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          • #6
            Re: I hate this guy.

            I noow have two people to kick the s*** out of, this guy, and the Easter Bunny!

            Happy Halloween

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            • #7
              Re: I hate this guy.

              I think our "Mystery Woo Guy" is Walt Whitman
              Tom Smith, 2nd Lt. T.E.
              Nobel Grand Humbug, Al XXI,
              Chapt. 1.5 De la Guerra y Pacheco
              Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus
              Topographer for: TAG '03, BGR, Spring Hill, Marmeduke's Raid, & ITPW

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              • #8
                Re: I hate this guy.

                Cripes! you guys aren't going to believe this, but I think he's holding the apple from the Antietam picture and missing the sole of his shoe. This is most strange.
                [FONT=Century Gothic]Alan Poor/Independent[/FONT]

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                • #9
                  Re: I hate this guy.

                  I think he is really a rock.
                  Robert Johnson

                  "Them fellers out thar you ar goin up against, ain't none of the blue-bellied, white-livered Yanks and sassidge-eatin'forrin' hirelin's you have in Virginny that run atthe snap of a cap - they're Western fellers, an' they'll mighty quick give you a bellyful o' fightin."



                  In memory of: William Garry Co.H 5th USCC KIA 10/2/64 Saltville VA.

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                  • #10
                    Re: I hate this guy.

                    I'm serious guys, I think he is Walt Whtman. Walt spent most of the war in D.C. as a nurse, spent some of that time in the Smithsonian when it was converted over to a hospital.
                    Tom Smith, 2nd Lt. T.E.
                    Nobel Grand Humbug, Al XXI,
                    Chapt. 1.5 De la Guerra y Pacheco
                    Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus
                    Topographer for: TAG '03, BGR, Spring Hill, Marmeduke's Raid, & ITPW

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                    • #11
                      Re: I hate this guy.

                      It looks like he has a severed Confederate hand sticking out of his lapel. Check and see if it has a ring on it.
                      Robert Johnson

                      "Them fellers out thar you ar goin up against, ain't none of the blue-bellied, white-livered Yanks and sassidge-eatin'forrin' hirelin's you have in Virginny that run atthe snap of a cap - they're Western fellers, an' they'll mighty quick give you a bellyful o' fightin."



                      In memory of: William Garry Co.H 5th USCC KIA 10/2/64 Saltville VA.

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                      • #12
                        Re: I hate this guy.

                        Originally posted by hireddutchcutthroat
                        I think he is really a rock.
                        Perhaps he also holds the mystery behind the Mystery Depot jacket.

                        You see, this all started out very calmly. I was perusing the LOC images like I usually do, and came across him for the first time in front of a Christian Commision building.



                        This is cute. He's with some kids. "What a nice grandpa," I thought.
                        Little did I realize that he'd turn into a photographer stalker. He probably waited in front of Gardner's studio for him to load up a wagon and head out for the town, because...













                        ... HE'S @#$%^* EVERYWHERE! One or two? Fine. Eight?! He's a narcissist! He just loves to see himself on glass!


                        Tom,

                        You may be right. He does look like Walt Whitman, especially in the cheekbones, but the images I've seen of him during the war have him sporting a salt and peppery beard.

                        However...

                        I believe that I have found who this man is.



                        William Morgan Sheppard.


                        'Nuff said.
                        Jason R. Wickersty
                        http://www.newblazingstarpress.com

                        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."

                        - O.R.s, Series 1, Volume 26, Part 1, pg 86.

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                        • #13
                          Where--I mean, who--is Waldo?



                          This is reportedly Whitman during the Civil War.

                          Your mystery man's face is very familiar, but maybe it's because he looks like Edmund Gwenn.
                          Michael McComas
                          drudge-errant

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                          • #14
                            Re: I hate this guy.

                            Oh hell, I think I sat on his lap at the old Miller & Rhodes in Richmond.
                            B. G. Beall (Long Gone)

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                            • #15
                              Re: I hate this guy.

                              I wonder if he could somehow be associated with a photographic team taking pictures of the DC area. I know that the battlefield photographers did not travel alone and are very often seen in photographs claimed for as their own while an assistant took the image. Do we know if the same photographer is credited as taking all these images?
                              Brian Koenig
                              SGLHA
                              Hedgesville Blues

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