FOUND!!!!! Newly Discovered Old Mathew Brady Photograph from Civil War!!!!!!!!

[Two Flints]

Boy, what a find!  Must be worth millions

                                               (Photo Posted by Two Flints)

[Tuolumne Lawman]

Brady always did have a penchant for capturing gallant figures on film (tintypes)!  Great job, TF!

[Hedley Lamarr]

I'm sorry but it's a fake.
At least the background is.
The "Tiki Torch" earliest date of invention is 1973. Seriously.
(Too bad about the car, too...)

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

The civil war soldiers diet must have been a lot better than I've ever heard about!!

[Tuolumne Lawman]

Ah, it must be my oversized cavalry shell!  Seriously, I've lost 30 pounds since I bought it.  It gives me plenty of room to stuff the empty Smith hulls in the front!

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Good;   The period correct folding metal church-camp picnic chairs.

Notso good;  I've NEVER seen soldiers that neat & clean in the field!  Was it for a regimental trooping of the Guidon parade?

[Sgt Scott]

That must be one heavy Smith. It looks like there are two carbine straps, one on the trooper and one on the carbine. Maybe, the one on the trooper is holding the lunch bucket.....
Sgt Scott

[Tuolumne Lawman]

Actually, that is not a carbine strap, but rather the shoulder strap of a .58 Springfield cartridge box (without tins).  i also have a Maynard carbine box (deeper than standard carbine box with 7-6-7 rows) that I drilled out too.  This trooper likes to carry LOTS of rounds! My Smith is an "Artillery" Model, which is actually as misnomer.  ALL Smiths were equipped with standard sling swivels initially.  It was not until sometime in 1863 that they started equipping them with carbine sling rings and staple. Until then, they either wore them like the Dragoons did their musketoons across their back, or across the front of the saddle.

[Tuolumne Lawman]

By the way, this was before the first battle on Saturday, so were were pretty clean.  If you saw us Sunday afternoon- we were really dirty, sweaty, and frumpy!  We died in the last battle in a nice, dirty, fresh dug entrenched position.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Was that a missed Photo-Op, or does someone have the dirt on Y'all?

[Tuolumne Lawman]

I wish someone could have caught our demise on film.  I did a contorted ,straddling the trench, one leg out of the trench death pose that was straight out of a Brady pic! I timed it perfect with a close range charging rebel musket blast pointed at me (I felt the blast on my face, even though it was elevated).  It could not have been planned better.

[12 th Illinois]

Some scoundrel must have altered the priceless photo!!!