Six unidentified soldiers in 45th Ohio Infantry Regiment officers’ uniforms with sabers. 1862-65.
This image shows six soldiers sitting down, enjoying wine and pipes. One soldier is using a cork screw to open an unlabeled bottle of wine, another soldier holds a tumbler of wine, and a third is holding an upright bottle. This upright bottle is interesting because it bears a neat label. The bottle is shaped like a Bordeaux bottle with sloped shoulders, which reminds me of Chateau Haut-Brion. I downloaded the highest resolution image and the label unfortunately is slightly out of focus and all white. Too bad we cannot determine what it is!
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Six unidentified soldiers in 45th Ohio Infantry Regiment officers’ uniforms with sabers. 1862-1865. [1]
[1] [Six unidentified soldiers in 45th Ohio Infantry Regiment officers’ uniforms with sabers]. Between 1862-1865. Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 3018 [P&P]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. URL: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012650002/
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Only one appears to have a glass (or rather a tumbler). Surely they weren’t drinking out of the bottle? But looks like red wine.
Could this have been staged in some way or to some end?
Graham
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The soldier on the left appears to have a tin cup on the ground behind his saber. The soldier “pulling” the cork seems to have an air of being staged. But it does appear he has a t-shaped cork screw (or something similar). I know nothing about wine consumption of Civil War soldiers.