Shorpy's originals

[Nor'easter]

The best thing about Shorpy's is that you may blow them up for study.

U.S. Engineer Drama Club

http://www.shorpy.com/node/5431?size=_original

Band of brothers 1865

http://www.shorpy.com/node/5533?size=_original

Company B, U.S. Engineers

http://www.shorpy.com/node/5471?size=_original

One we've all seen, "Scouts and Guides"

http://www.shorpy.com/node/5710?size=_original

Nashville '64

http://www.shorpy.com/node/4662?size=_original

[Ross L. Lamoreaux]

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The "band of brothers" image had the biggest hodge podge of caps and hats. Check out the fur pile cap, two "straight out of sutler row" forage caps (one complete with the baseball cap rolled visor), a kepi, slouch, a late war McDowell brimmed cap, a painted cover, etc, etc, etc.

[yeoman]

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Sir, great group images. Funny, but it seems some of their faces I can recognize as friends or people I've met or known. Using 600% zoom on "Nashville '64" image I'm looking at the men in the checked pants at right and the gent sitting. Does his cuffs look to be pinned or buttoned up? What do you reckon the slab material is being used for?
Thanks for posting these images.

[PieBoy96]

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Notice in the Drama Club photo (1864), two (presumably) enlisted men are wearing dark blue pants. Thanks for sharing this... I'm going to add that to my study of Enlisted Feds wearing dark blues! ( http://www.libertyrifles.org/research/darkblues62.html )

[10TnVI]

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Mel-I've often wondered exactly where the Nashville series of Photos was taken. Given that the area in view is all built up now it,s hard to figure out. However, other photos of the time show that construction was still taking place on the hill where the state capital building is and the slabs may be associated with that activity. At the right side of the photo a stone retaining wall capped with a earthen bank is visable that reminds me of the retaing wall around the capital building. In the left middle ground a train is visiable in the valley below which suggest the northside of the current I-40 Route for the location

[pvtMonroe5thtexas]

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Wow... those are amazing. I love hi-def photos, I'll have to check out the rest of the site.

[Jon The Beloved]

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Yes.. Mr. Hares.. I have seen it labeled as such. The camera seems to be facing pretty well west of town from 'Fort Johnson'/Capitol Hill and the retaining wall would be the southwest corner of the state houses perch. Clues to this would be the L&N/T&A Railroad and trestle that wrapped around the hill, the townhouses in full view and what is most likely Harding Pike in the distance. The Train Depot would be just out of sight to the left at the bottom of the hill.. and it's a wonder you can't make out Acklen's Belmont Mansion Complex in the distance.

Just ringing in. Others.. discuss?

[Curt Schmidt]

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Hallo!

High resolution images are always a joy for the nuggets of trivia buried within them.

In the "Drama Club" Engineers, the front row seated lad second last on the viewer's left is wearing corporal stripes on his trousers but no chevrons on his blouse.
The guy on the viewer's right, at the end, is wearing an Engineer's castle device in the middle of his blouse.

In the "Company B," the lad on the viewer's left appears to have crudely stitched his one trouser seam (I will enlarge that an dhave a closer look)(???). The lad with the pipe is wearing a waistbelt as a trouser belt.
Slash pockets added to blouses.

And in "Scouts and Guides," the lad second last on the viewer's right has his vest misbuttoned.

Curt

[Hyde64]

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Gentleman/Ladies, Notice in one of the Engineer pics how one man on the right wears his branch insignia on the closier of his sack coat and also in the "scouts" photo,a great study of sack coats and hats. Clifford Earl Hyde

[FortyRounder]

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Notice in the Drama Club photo (1864), two (presumably) enlisted men are wearing dark blue pants. Thanks for sharing this... I'm going to add that to my study of Enlisted Feds wearing dark blues! ( http://www.libertyrifles.org/research/darkblues62.html )

I'm having a tough time posting photos. On your dark blue trousers page the first Appomattox photo shows a guy in a porkpie hat. Can anyone make out the badge on his hat?

[FloridaConscript]

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In the Company B photo, it appears that some fellows are sporting a 'C' on their caps.
The fellow on our elft, sitting on the stump, only appears to have his brogans laced through the bottom lace hole as well.

[Curt Schmidt]

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Hallo!



Curt

[FortyRounder]

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Is it a 24th Corps badge with something else over it?

[Curt Schmidt]

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Hallo!

I cannot enlarge it enough with the given resolution to really see what I think I am looking at.

I tend to see a XV (or XXV) corps badge on top of a wreath??

Dunno...

Curt