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Unidentified Union soldier with a bandaged hand, wearing a 3rd Corps badge. Source: LoC.

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Union pickets in West Virginia ca 1862. West Virginia State Archives.

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Happy West Virginia Day!

George W. Warth, of Ravenswood, WV, who enlisted in Capt. Bibbee’s Co. A, 141st West Virginia Militia, Jackson County Home Guard (US), in 1863. Source: USAHEC.

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Fish curers, Ardglass, County Down, Ireland, late 19th century (detail). Photographed by Robert French. Source: NLI.

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Federal soldiers (New Yorkers?) in Arlington Heights, Virginia, relaxing and goofing around with sword bayonets. I love that the kid seated at right appears to have been caught in a laugh! Detail from original image from LOC.

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Great, now I have to kinkshame the entire Union army.

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Unidentified Tennessee Confederate. Via Civil War Faces.

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W. J. Bishop and David S. Leach, reenlisted veteran volunteers of the 33rd Illinois Infantry. The 2nd view is from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

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Outside Libby Prison, RIchmond, Virginia, April 1865. Detail from LoC original.

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Federal soldiers resting near a pontoon bridge at Hanovertown Ferry, Virginia, ca 1864. Detail from LOC original.

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Just two dudes enjoying the shade under a burst 300-pounder Parrot gun. Morris Island, SC, summer 1863 (detail). Source: LOC

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WITH AN IDENTITY DISC by WILFRED OWEN If ever I had dreamed of my dead name High in the heart of London, unsurpassed By Time for ever, and the Fugitive, Fame, There taking a long sanctuary at last, I better that; and recollect with shame How once I longed to hide it from life’s heats Under those holy cypresses, the same That keep in shade the quiet place of Keats. Now, rather, thank I God there is no risk Of gravers scoring it with florid screed, But let my death be memoried on this disc. Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed. But let thy heart-beat kiss it night and day, Until the name grow vague and wear away.

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Soldiers and a young visitor, 1910s, Sweden.

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The Camptown Shakers by Kevin B. Moore

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"Summer Time." Norman Rockwell, 1933.

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Other Lost Shoes

A number of Massachusetts Reform School boys locked bayonets with the VMI cadets at the Battle of New Market. I wrote about three of these forgotten soldiers for a recent guest article on Irish in the American Civil War.

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Some unintentionally prescient snark from Private Tobey Doherty, from my debut Civil War novel, Year of Crows, which turns a year old today.