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[Private Samuel T. Cowley of Co. A, 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment]
Summary
Photograph shows identified soldier.
Handwritten note in case: "Keep this to remember old S.T. Cowley in the Southern Army, June 9, 1861. God bless you all, now and forever."
Case: Berg, no. 2-55.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202)
Purchased from: Anne Arundel House, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, 2013.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).
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There are not many details distinguishing the Confederates from the Union soldiers in many of portrait photographs - they really were from the same country, the same culture. One of the differences that you do find is the less uniform appearance of Confederates: they are much less standard, often wearing bits and pieces of cast-off Union Army uniforms and often, even weaponry. One thing that’s specific to the Confederates is huge Bowie knives, humorously called ‘Arkansas toothpicks,’ often made by local blacksmiths.
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