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![tuesday-johnson:
ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of Confederate Infantryman armed with a revolver and Bowie knife]
via Heritage Auctions](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly44aq2JQQ1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of Confederate Infantryman armed with a revolver and Bowie knife]
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![fuckyeahhistorycrushes:
Julius Franklin Howell joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, Howell eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made a rare recording at the Library of Congress, in which he described his enlistment, sudden capture, and his experience in the Union prison camp on the morning of April 15th, 1865, the morning Abraham Lincoln died.
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Julius Franklin Howell joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, Howell eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made a rare recording at the Library of Congress, in which he described his enlistment, sudden capture, and his experience in the Union prison camp on the morning of April 15th, 1865, the morning Abraham Lincoln died.
[Submitted by nemide]
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Unidentified black Union soldier and his family. (Not sure if the little girls are twins or just have similar taste in bonnets.)
Brass buttons, box pleats, braid, cockades... sometimes all on the same outfit. You know what they always say, they just don't make them like they used to (no offence or disrespect to current service men and women around the world).
On this page we show an appreciation for old uniforms and the men who wear them.
