I recently ordered the full set of Napoleonics (Quatre Bras 28th Foot and 10th Cuirrassiers)and although very pleased with the figures in general I am somewhat bemused by the fact that the 28th Regiment and the 10th Cuirrassiers never seemed to have met at Quatre Bras or,for that...
UKREB....I have a copy of Ron Field's book (as well as all his multi-volume Osprey series) on CS uniforms and informative they are too.It's a pity he tends to dwell on State issues though in his main (Brassey's)work though,leaving only a few pages for the much more numerous cenral government...
Sorry UK but I have to heartily disagree with you.In my initial posting I wasn't speaking of studio portraits but more of 'in the field' photos showing Confederate dead and prisoners,of which there are many.(Most can be downloaded from the superb Library of Congress website and studied in great...
The real problem with this figure set is that rarely did Confederates have patches on their pants.Repairs were generally done internally with any repair work hardly showing.Even when the Confederate army was at its most destitute in 1862 (ie at Antietam) photographic evidence NEVER shows patches...
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