[Bernard Bluecher Graves, Corp., C.S.A., three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front] / Rees.
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Typed on negative sleeve: Bernard B. Graves joined the Hanover Artillery May 22, 1861. In Oct., 1862, he was transferred to the Amherst Artillery and fought with it the remainder of the war, a part of the time as a corporal. He was captured near Waynesboro, Va., Mar. 2, 1865 and imprisoned in Fort Delaware. He died at the age of forty-three.
Copy photo made by LC in 1953 from an ambrotype by Rees & Brother (Edwin J. & Charles R.), Richmond, Va.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
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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