Co.K, 4th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry (Sumter Light Guards)
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This image has always impressed me. Some time ago I took a magnifying glass to
get a closer view of the men and their uniforms. I noticed a very interesting soldier who has the rank of Corporal and who appears, to me, to be an African-American. He's
in the second rank from the front and is the 8th person from the right. Apparently someone else noticed this a long time before, because
in all the prints I have of found of this image someone scored into the glass plate negative a rectangle around this man's head, as can be seen in
the second and third enlargements. If you have a good print of this image
you can take a magnifying glass to see it clearly. |
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Image courtesy of Georgia Department of Archives and History.
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The photograph can be found in these publications:
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Bruce Catton The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War.
New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc./Bonanza Books, 1982. p.74 |
| Geoffrey C. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns The Civil War: An Illustrated History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. p.49 |
| Bell Irvin Wiley They Who Fought Here. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. p.2 |
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