Sunday, August 21, 2016

VICKSBURG & MISSISSIPPI CDVs



Following are photos of some of my small collection of CDVs made by Vicksburg and other Mississippi photographers around the time of the War for Independence (Southern).


















I've never been a serious collector of CDVs, yet these and a few others just caught my eye.


Wednesday, August 10, 2016

MY SUTTON CONFEDERATE ANCESTORS

Both of these soldiers, Great-Great Uncles on my mother's side, are buried in a private graveyard near our old home place near Prentiss, Mississippi. I would have liked to have fought beside them. They are among my most revered personal "treasures."