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Title: The Civil War (in color)
Post by: rollingb on October 10, 2013, 11:56:28 AM

I think these pictures are really interesting.
Amazing Civil War photographs created by colorist bring the era's heroes and characters to life in full color for the first time  | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2446391/Amazing-Civil-War-photographs-created-colorist-bring-eras-heroes-characters-life-color-time.html#socialLinks)

Title: Re: The Civil War (in color)
Post by: sse on October 11, 2013, 04:24:41 PM

Thanks for showing us that, rollingb, most interesting.

A picture is worth a thousand words...add color and make that a few thousand more words...!

Title: Re: The Civil War (in color)
Post by: rollingb on October 11, 2013, 06:46:15 PM

I didn't know (until I saw these pictures) that Mark Twain had joined the Confederacy and then "DESERTED" after only 2 weeks.

I learn sumpthin new every day.  

Title: Re: The Civil War (in color)
Post by: Woodrock on October 14, 2013, 02:17:34 AM

The colour makes these images startling.  The uniform colours seem too clean, considering a man had but one uniform unless an officer. I remember seeing a collection of original uniforms in a small museum in Beaufort, South Carolina back in the fifties. All but a few were so stained with the red clay of the south that it was hard to tell blue from grey. With a field laid heavy with smoke, it had to have been pure hell identifying blue from grey during many battles.
Woody