Look at the clear high quality pic of this Confederate prisoner taken at Gettysburg in 1863

[Hydro70]

can u believe how clear this is and dont it look like it was taken just awhile ago but the picture was taken on July 4, 1863 a day after the battle there.  Also if you familiar with this picture in the whole picture there are two other Confederate soldiers and one is just directly right of him and this mans father is the one beside that other man, dont have the whole picture but I will find it.  BTW some of my relatives fought with General Lee at Gettysburg and they were relatives who remained in Virginia after my GreatGreatGrandfather moved to Kentucky 

 

[zleinenbach]

Awesome 

[acem]

Very impressive image and great find. Thanks for sharing.

The image posted above appears to have been colorized at some point. But tastefully done. I searched and found the original. Below are images from the library of congress.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2004682780/

[acem]

BTW I had relatives who fought on both sides.

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Wet collodion is a pretty straight forward process that produces very clean images IF everyone/thing sets still. It has an ISO of about 5. Dry plate was slower than a constipated turtle at about 1 ISO. Might as well stick to landscapes at either speed. And if you think wedding photography is bad at 160 or 200.... 🤣.

Mike

[mike newman]

6 hours ago, acem said:

BTW I had relatives who fought on both sides.

...try and keep the politics  out of this topic, Ace....

....great old pictures though...

Mike

[Alan Dinan]

I have no knowledge about anyone in my family that fought on either side, but dad told me that grandpa had a Springfield rifle from the civil war. A cousin of his through a fit because he never received anything from the family farm, so grandpa gave him the rifle, then he promptly sold it. Grandpa told him to never step foot on the farm again. 
That was all I was told, no names were mentioned, so don’t have a clue as what part of the family it was.

[Lars (midessa)]

Both sides of my family legally immigrated to this country between 1880-1900.

[acem]

13 hours ago, mike newman said:

...try and keep the politics  out of this topic, Ace....

....great old pictures though...

Mike

Haha!

My family owned slaves!

[littlered166]

52 minutes ago, acem said:

Haha!

My family owned slaves!

Sad to say mine did also.

[New Englander]

Mine were starved out of Ireland. No reparations coming from me!

[vtfireman85]

2 hours ago, New Englander said:

Mine were starved out of Ireland. No reparations coming from me!

Because the Irish aren't a bunch of cry baby, whining azz pu$$ies. 

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

I wish I could ask “Johnny Reb” about his views. I bet they’re nothing like the way he’s portrayed by the modern American holier than thou intellectual. I doubt if he’s fighting brutal hand to hand combat just for the fun of it, but I’d like to hear his story. 

[cedar farm]

Hank Jr. "If the south woulda won, we woulda had it made" Food for thought.

[mike newman]

17 hours ago, Alan Dinan said:

I have no knowledge about anyone in my family that fought on either side, but dad told me that grandpa had a Springfield rifle from the civil war. A cousin of his through a fit because he never received anything from the family farm, so grandpa gave him the rifle, then he promptly sold it. Grandpa told him to never step foot on the farm again. 
That was all I was told, no names were mentioned, so don’t have a clue as what part of the family it was.

...neat   story, Alan 

 

9 hours ago, acem said:

Haha!

My family owned slaves!

...apart from ''pay rates'', Ace...sometimes I think very little has changed, in the ensuing  years.....and for the ''lithium  miners'' in Africa...I doubt there is even a 'pay rate '

Mike

[Ian Beale]

10 hours ago, acem said:

Haha!

My family owned slaves!

And you're one of them?

[Ian Beale]

6 hours ago, vtfireman85 said:

Because the Irish aren't a bunch of cry baby, whining azz pu$$ies. 

When you look at the Ireland of today maybe that ought to be "weren't"?

[acem]

4 hours ago, Ian Beale said:

And you're one of them?

It sure seemed like it.

Mom's family had a big place between Ozark and Mulberry Arkansas on white oak creek. Some bottom land, pastures and mountains with timber. There was still cattle and a sawmill when I was a kid. Apparently they had a big operation back in the day, cotton, lumber,  etc. Grandpa got bought out of his share and bought a truck in the 1920s and made good money. Bought a store in Ozark during the depression and did well. I never got anything from either...

When I was a kid there were still black families that had mom's last name. Some worked for Grandpa and they were treated like family I am told. In the 30s grandma and the kids made a trip to California to visit her family. Grandpa didn't go so 'uncle' Sherman drove them. He wasn't allowed to eat in the restaurants or stay in the motels along the way because of segregation. When they got to California he stayed in the house and ate with them like family. To be honest Grandpa didn't always treat his own family  nice. Well not that I could tell when I was around him. Grandma did though.

On dad's side Some were in Kentucky and Tennessee and fought for the south. Dad's mom was from Central Illinois and I always assumed her family fought for the north. However now that I think about it her family were Mennonites or similar from Germany. They may have arrived after the Civil War or been objectors and not fought. Grandma left the religion and went to west Texas where she could find a man willing to put up with her!

Thx-Ace