Faces of the Civil War*

[RoadKingLarry]

Enjoy

http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12/2010/faces-of-the-american-civil-war

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5229147036/in/set-72157625520211184/

* Of course all right thinking folks refer to it as the war or Northern aggression.

[Perd Hapley]

Sigh. Guess I'll need some popcorn.

[grampster]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5229147036/in/set-72157625520211184/

First example of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

I have my great grandfather's discharge document from the Union Cavalry along with a notation of the cash he was given as payment for service.  Sadly, the ink has been slowly fading.

[roo_ster]

http://www.pasthorizons.com/wp-content/gallery/american-civil-war/12.jpg

A time when facial hair was not feared by .mil.

[kgbsquirrel]

http://www.pasthorizons.com/wp-content/gallery/american-civil-war/12.jpg

A time when facial hair was not feared by .mil.

A time when you didn't have to worry about getting a good seal on your gas mask because some doofus thought it would be hillarious to stock pile mustard gas and was nucking futz enough to use it. 

[roo_ster]

A time when you didn't have to worry about getting a good seal on your gas mask because some doofus thought it would be hillarious to stock pile mustard gas and was nucking futz enough to use it.  

True that.


This...
http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm
...is the answer to the question, "What if Abraham Lincoln had Powerpoint available for hte Gettysburg Address?"

Progress.