Major General George Armstrong Custer
Posted on 11/13/2013 2:36:14 PM PST by Renfield
Watch out for that guy that looks like Baldwin -— could go Postal any minute. ;~))
The one of Mark Twain looks like it was taken yesterday. Incredible.
Remover reading he didn’t look that good
when he smiled...really bad teeth.
I am trying to remember what I read some time back about Powell.
As I mentioned he had served honorably and was noted for bravery during the war. I think by the end, he had become insane. He tried to stab Seward who was in bed but missed in several tries.
Despite that he had a reputation for being a soft hearted person.
I know that after he was arrested, he tried to kill himself by beating his head against his cell wall. I think they had to take measures to keep him from killing himself.
Colorizing adds a depth and a reality that B & W fails to emote. Thanks.
Major General George Armstrong Custer
Mark Twain
I know he served under John Singleton Mosby, who retired to California and took his morning constitutional on horseback in the foothills of the San Gabriels. One day he met a youngster, also mounted, and the two rode together many days afterward. One could say that a mantle had been passed from the older to the younger, a lad named George Smith Patton.
Seward was recuperating after being seriously injured in a carriage accident a week or so before. He was wearing a heavy metal brace which hindered Powell's stabbing attempts. Seward suffered deep slashes to his face. The scars are visible in later photos of him.
That is very interesting. I had never known that Seward was wearing a brace. That would explain what seems like an almost unbelievable incompetence on Powell’s part.
She wasn't involved in the Civil War but nevertheless, the artists did a wonderful job restoring this photo.
Powell initially planned to use a pistol, but it misfired or jammed when he fired it on his way up the stairs in Seward’s house. Seward’s son Frederick had tried to stop him from gaining entry to his father’s room. Paine attacked Frederick, hitting him several times with the butt of the pistol. He suffered a fractured skull, but miraculously survived.
Yet the people standing around the scaffolding in the photos are dressed head to toe in wool suits and heavy overcoats. Apparently shorts and flip-flops weren't invented yet.
I am sure most of those convicted were guilty but their trials were a travesty of justice. First of all there was no legal way for the Army to try them, but they just had the power so they did.
There probably were a few who were either totally innocent or guilty after the fact of aiding them knowing or maybe not knowing they were running from authorities.
Shouldn’t Grant’s photo show a bit more sot-faced complexion?
This would have trapped the heat against his body and caused severe damage to his internal organs. Doctors did not know what heat stroke was at that time, so he would not have been treated for it.
It humanizes the war when seen in color.
Really enjoyed the photos and the stories. Thanks.
Can you post the original for a comparison?
I would like to see what she looks like without all the airbrushing, tons of make-up and photoshopping. I’m guessing unrecognizable.
Wow! Very handsome young man. As someone said, with color he comes WAY forward in time.
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