Confederate Faces: A Pictorial Review of the Individuals in the Confederate Armed Forces.

Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, (1993). Quarto, tan cloth (hardcover), brown letters, xx, 229 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From Foreword: During the Civil War years of 1861 - 1865, as millions marched away to answer the Union and Confederate “call to arms,” the demand for photographic likenesses of these valiant soldiers rose to theretofore unknown heights. The then recently introduced Melainotype (1856) or “tintype” or “ferrotype” and its relatively instantaneous processing, together with the physical durability and permanence, made it the favored tool of the itinerant photographers who traveled with the armies in the field. This was particularly true in the North. In the South, ambrotypes, on glass, appear to have been even more popular than tintypes, if we can judge by those extant. Most of these appear to have been taken either pre-Civil War (in state and private militia uniforms) or very early in the War, when everyone was depicted in a fairly nice, to “super fancy” uniform with weapons and accoutrements. These portraits were usually taken by the “Sun Artists” in their permanent studios and were more formal and studied than those taken in the field. Later in the War, photographic materials in the South became scarce and the Confederate soldier’s pay was most uncertain. Hence, the “camp following” tintype operators and sutlers in the Southern Army were almost nonexistent. Carte-de-visites then became popular in the Confederacy.. From the Introduction: