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I can pick out Meade but where are the other two; Sedgwick and Tyler?
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/cwp/4a3900...0/4a39657r.jpg
I can pick out Meade but where are the other two; Sedgwick and Tyler?
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Mike "Dusty" Chapman
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Dusty,
Yes, the fellow standing second from right is "Uncle John" Sedgwick. This photo was taken near Brandy Station, Va. during the winter of 1863-1864. Sedgwick's headquarters was at "Farley," the Welford/Stearns home, which was only about a mile north of Meade's headquarters, which was located on a small knoll east of Fleetwood Hill.
I don't know who the other general is, but I'll see if I can't figure it out.
By the way, for a good overview of the Union winter camps in Culpeper County, see Clark B. Hall's "Season of Change: The Winter Encampment of the Army of the Potomac, December 1, 1863 - May 4, 1864" in Blue & Gray Magazine , Volume VIII, Issue 4 (Spring 1991).
Eric
Eric J. Mink
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Meade looks lost... someone sit him down...
Go to:
www.generalsandbrevets.com - you might be able to associate a few faces from that site...
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The fellow at far right, to Sedgwick's left, is General Robert O. Tyler, commanding the Reserve Artillery for the AoP.
Compare to this photo:
Robert O. Tyler
Eric
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Eric J. Mink
Co. A, 4th Va Inf
Stonewall Brigade
Help Preserve the Slaughter Pen Farm - Fredericksburg, Va.
Thats an unusual hat Sedgewick is wearing. It kinda looks like a derby. Any idea's of what style it actually is?
Andrew Donovan
Livonia, MI
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Great damn ''overcoat'' in the center.The one at the far left left looks like AEF foul-weather gear. Jason can you zoom in on these two guys?
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It looks like Sedgwick is standing right next to Tyler:
Here's a studio image of Tyler:
It looks like the 18 button front jackets were popular on the staff (what a pain in the ... )!
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Received. “Can you give it any directions to make it more bully?”
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Jason,
If you don't mind, could you zoom in on the left hand side of the photo and give us a close up of the officer wearing the overcoat?
Thanks Jason,
Aaron Schwieterman
Cincinnati
There's two officer's wearing overcoats, so I snipped both of them:
Double breasted sky blue:
Dark blue French officers pattern:
And look at this officer's arm in a tourniquet!
Jason R. Wickersty
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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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