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Friday, August 2, 2013

Unidentified

August 2, 2013

Civil war portrait,Library of Congress,Miscellaneous document sources

Unidentified soldier of 33rd Missouri Infantry Regiment with bayoneted musket and revolver in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, SaintUnidentified soldier of 33rd Missouri Infantry Regiment with bayoneted musket and revolver in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri.

Photo by Enoch Long.

Sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.4 cm (case)

Gift by Tom Liljenquist; 2011

Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs; Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Record page for image is here.

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Post image for A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary

A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary

August 2, 2013

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, By John Beauchamp Jones

by John Beauchamp Jones

            AUGUST 2D.—We have warm, fair weather now ; but the momentary gloom, hanging like the pall of death over our affairs, cannot be dispelled without a decisive victory somewhere, or news of speedy foreign intervention. The letters which I read at the department this morning, contain no news whatever. I have suggested to the government to prohibit the exchange of newspapers in the flag of truce boat; but I doubt if they will act upon it. It is a manifest injury to us.

            The exchange of prisoners is practically resumed; the Federal boat delivering yesterday 750 of our sick and wounded; and we returned 600 of their sick and wounded.

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