#union soldier

[onefootin1941]

Union soldier with family, 1861-65.

Library of Congress

#union soldier #family portrait #1860s

[vulturesouls]

Union Cavalry Soldier with Pistol in Holster, from Indiana, 1861-5

Photo by Tappin's Photograph Art Gallery (American, active 1860s)

In the Met Museum

#american civil war #union soldier #united states #19th century #historical photography #men

[thepatriotartist]

MY BOYY GABRIEL, hes my first ever "offical" Civil war OC.

Irish brigade member, and Patriotic Irishman. Hes super chill and fun, dies during Gettysburg sadly 😭

Did not get to see his Soon-to-be wife and child, or his family. Loved the banjo, and Just being social

#drawingoc #american civil war #acw #historical #historical oc #union soldier #oc #american history #irish brigade #IDK WHAT ELSE TO TAG #history #???

[omusasteelhorn]

I finished up this tauren union soldier commission - comes with a sepia variant.

The background is a altered stock photo by Alex Hockett which I found here: https://unsplash.com/photos/green-tree-with-white-dog-during-daytime-TwMLYN_CMT4

#american civil war #tauren #soldier #union soldier #furry #anthro #musket #minotaur #fantasy #world of warcraft #warcraft #wow #horde #drawing #fantasy art #art #artist #commission

[muttball]

A Package From Home

#muttball #photography #travel photography #union soldier #army guard #image by muttball #military soldiers #guard duty

[tocitynews]

The Original Memorial Day Charleston South Carolina: The Washington Post reporting

On May 1, 1865, thousands of newly freed Black people gathered in Charleston, S.C., for what may have been the nation’s first Memorial Day celebration. Attendees held a parade and put flowers on the graves of Union soldiers who had helped liberate them from slavery.

The event took place three weeks after the Civil War surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and two weeks after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. It was a remarkable moment in U.S. history — at the nexus of war and peace, destruction and reconstruction, servitude and emancipation.

But the day would not be remembered as the first Memorial Day. In fact, White Southerners made sure that for more than a century, the day wasn’t remembered at all.

It was “a kind of erasure from public memory,” said David Blight, a history professor at Yale University. ➖ Left in the wake of the Confederate evacuation were the graves of more than 250 Union soldiers, buried without coffins behind the judge’s stand of the Washington Race Course, a Charleston horse track that had been converted into an outdoor prison for captured Northerners. The conditions were brutal, and most of those who had died succumbed to exposure or disease.

In April, about two dozen of Charleston’s freed men volunteered to disinter the bodies and rebury them in rows of marked graves, surrounded by a wooden, freshly whitewashed fence, according to newspaper accounts from the time.

Then, on May 1, about 10,000 people — mostly formerly enslaved people — turned out for a memorial service that the freed people had organized, along with abolitionist and journalist James Redpath and some White missionaries and teachers from the North. Redpath described the day in the New-York Tribune as “such a procession of friends and mourners as South Carolina or the United States never saw before.”

The day’s events began around 9 a.m. with a parade led by about 2,800 Black schoolchildren, who had just been enrolled in new schools, bearing armfuls of flowers. They marched around the horse track and entered the cemetery gate under an arch with black-painted letters that read “Martyrs of the Race Course.” The schoolchildren proceeded through the cemetery and distributed the flowers on the gravesites.

“When all had left,” Redpath wrote, “the holy mounds — the tops, the sides, and the spaces between them — were one mass of flowers, not a speck of earth could be seen; and as the breeze wafted the sweet perfume from them, outside and beyond, to the sympathetic multitude, there were few eyes among those who knew the meaning of the ceremony that were not dim with tears of joy.” ➖ But Then:

“By the middle and end of Reconstruction, the Black folks of Charleston were not creating the public memory of that city.”

The portrayal of the Civil War and its aftermath was controlled in the South by groups such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Ladies’ Memorial Association, as well as Confederate veterans, Blight said.

“The Daughters of the Confederacy were the guardians of that narrative,” said Damon Fordham, an adjunct professor of history at The Citadel, a military college in Charleston. “And much of that was skewed toward the Confederate point of view.”

A 1916 letter written by the president of the Ladies’ Memorial Association in Charleston, replying to an inquiry about the May 1, 1865, parade. “A United Daughters of the Confederacy official wanted to know if it was true that blacks and their white abolitionist friends had engaged in such a burial rite,” he wrote. “Mrs. S.C. Beckwith responded tersely: ‘I regret that I was unable to gather any official information in answer to this.’”

In the 1880s, the bodies of the Union soldiers, the “Martyrs of the Race Course,” were exhumed and moved to Beaufort National Cemetery. The horse track closed shortly after that, and the 60 acres of land became Hampton Park, named for Wade Hampton III, a Confederate general and Charleston native who became governor of South Carolina in 1876. Hampton enslaved nearly 1,000 people before the war, and his governorship was supported by the Red Shirts, a White paramilitary group that violently suppressed the Black vote.

By the end of the century, no vestige of the racecourse, the cemetery or the 1865 parade remained. ➖

Over Time:

More spring graveside memorials followed the one in Charleston. Several occurred in towns across the country in the spring of 1866, and many of these places — such as Columbus, Miss., whose commemoration became annual — claim to have held the original Memorial Day observance.

Officially, The Nation Recognizes Memorial Day As Having Started In Waterloo, N.Y.

In Charleston, the freed people didn’t have the power to develop an annual tradition after 1865. But the city now recognizes itself, regardless, as the holiday’s birthplace.

“On May 1, 1865, a parade to honor the Union war dead took place here,” reads a South Carolina state historical marker erected in Hampton Park in 2017. “The event marked the earliest celebration of what became known as ‘Memorial Day.’”

#memorial day #racism #slavery #union soldier #civil war

[richcaminiti]

Welcome to The Pass!

That is the name of the new novel I had the pleasure of Co-Authoring with long time friend and school mate, Allan Krummenacker. Together we managed to create a different type of supernatural novel. Well, rather than me trying to explain it, why don't you read what Kirkus Reviews has to say!

Find it at Amazon and see for yourself!

#supernatural #vampires #zombies #chinese #irish #civil war #1863 #jiang shi #spy #war department #secret service #Keefer O'Connor #Lafayette Baker #Lansford Hastings #Donner Pass #union soldier #confederate soldier #skinwalker #miwok indians #indians #indie publishing

[janefondue]

#the cemetery holds the history #cemetery #history #union soldier #boston tea party

[surrealtiktoks]

#tiktok #watching an injured Union soldier play mobile games is taking me out

[pczick]

Remembering the Brave Heroes

Honoring a Hero - #MemorialDayWeekend

Kindle Unlimited, Paperback, and Audible My great-grandfather, Harmon Camburn, enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 two weeks after the start of the Civil War. He was nineteen. His infantry unit, 2nd Michigan, fought in several major battles during the horrific war. His final and nearly fatal active participation in the war occurred on November 24, 1863. His unit had been assigned to secure the…

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#Civil War #Civil War Journal of a Union Soldier #Confederate army #Confederate prisoner of war #heroes #Knoxville #Memorial Day #Union army #Union Soldier

[degeneratedworker]

'Let the atom be a worker, not a soldier!' Klimentiy Vladimirov Soviet Union 1967

#soviet union #nuclear #atom #soldier #worker #ussr #anti-war

[revoltedstates]

George L. Hyde, Co. C, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, Iron Brigade. Via Wisconsin Volunteers.

#civil war #american civil war #union #federal #soldier #1860s #american #history #wisconsin #iron brigade #hardee hat

[hans-joachim-marseille1919]

When you don't know who they are but would still wanna kiss them 🤭

#world war two #1940s #history #ww2 germany #reichblr #soviet union #german soldier

[sesamenom]

Flavors of numenoreans (minus the druedain because i still haven't figured out how i want to draw them)

#silm #silmarillion #numenor #numenoreans #idk why mr. edainic is so small sorry #idk if rhunic is the right word for it but rhundrim sounded wrong-er #this would probably be sometime in the late elros era? #i imagine he would encourage a lot of immigration early on to bolster the population #the kingdom literally popped up from the sea and started with what. one city worth of people? #you have to get citizens from somewhere #so a lot of travelers ended up settling down there #plus a few ancient mongolian soldiers who somehow ended up in the union of maedhros (?) #idk if i missed something but i am still unsure how bor and ulfangs people ended up in the general himring area #sorry druedain ill add you when i decide on a design #maybe im just tired but idk who the druedain align with geographically

[omusasteelhorn]

I like this rough sketch way better than the last one for this commission. Lines and colors soon! I have two final versions planned for this one. Union soldier tauren.

#wow #warcraft #world of warcraft #horde #tauren #drawing #wip #sketch #union soldier #american civil war #minotaur #fantasy

[vintage-russia]

At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,Moscow (1973)

#Россия #Russia #vintage #photography #СССР #USSR #Великая Отечественная война #Great Patriotic war #русская история #russian history #history #WWII #WW2 #russian #Советский Союз #Soviet Union #неизвестный солдат #unknown soldier #soviet #Europe #black and white #vintage photography #1970s #1973 #70s #20th century