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Confederate Trenches. Fascine Trench Breastworks, Petersburg, Va.

from U.S. National Archives

• Steve Woolf said:

  Some of Thomas Roche's photographic apparatus is seen above the gabions at center-right.

• Andrei Goncharik said:

  www.flickr.com/photos/193005003@N06/52451104565/

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with musket and bayonet] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 8 older comments, and then…
• aware health said:

  This fellow's buckle is upside down -- this must have been taken early in basic training. :)

• jmc33vavols said:

  No. Again, I believe this is a Confederate. If CSA or state buckles were scarce they would reverse acquired Union ones, a common practice.

• jmc33vavols said:

  Addendum: The high collar was much more common in Southern enlisted men's uniforms. Also, the rather ancient looking smoothbore musket. Even early on, Union soldiers had better rifles, by and large, though recently cartridge boxes found at Antietam (Sharpsburg) showed some Union Infantry units were still carrying smoothbores in late 1862

• aware health said:

  That sounds reasonable. I also note now that the "U" was painted in upside down, so whatever the reason it wasn't accidental.

• hulagun66 said:

  Upside down US buckle is a clue this fellow may have been a regular US infantryman until his state seceded. Or it is a captured or liberated belt. The jaunty brim angle of his kepi say "Johnny Reb" to me. Men fighting on the southern side were predominantly volunteers and tended to express such positive fighting spirit throughout the war.

[Berlin (now Brunswick), Md. Pontoon bridge and ruins of the stone bridge across the Potomac (destroyed in 1861)] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Gordie Broon. said:

  a really interesting set of pictures, especially viewed large....thanks for sharing !

• Quincas Moreira said:

  awesome, I managed to "freeview" by crossing my eyes and the effect was awesome!

• Edmée Olinger said:

  :)

• Sam Whitfield said:

  I'm in a hostel, not sure what people would think if i crossed my eyes whilst staring at my laptop.....

• Mariavica17-© said:

  Wonderful shot!!
  Greetings my friend !!
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