HO HUM, MORE FAKE WAR PICTURES

Oh my Gawd, they're faking war pictures. On the left are two pictures of the same dead Rebel soldier back in 1862. We all assume that the one on the top is real and the one on the bottom set up. There were actually four pictures of this same guy published at the same time using different locations. I guess to be accurate we would have to call them staged.

Circa WWII a famous news reel segment of Hitler dancing a jig at the surrender of Paris was a complete cutting room fake. The current Reuters fakery is just more of the same stuff that's been going on for over a hundred years.

More than one Civil War buff has corrected me on those pictures. My statements are correct but I have the wrong photo on the bottom.

howard -

you've got your pictures mixed up. the first one @ the top is one usually captioned of a south sharpshooter killed in Devil's Den @ Gettysburg and the date is 1863 (Gettysburg was fought July 1-3 1863). the one on the bottom is of a southerner killed in the trenches outside Petersburg in 1864.

i know the picture you are referring to at the top. yes, it was staged (the body and musket were moved several yards and posed again) but the second pic is not the same individual as the first and it was a year later. the pic you are looking for is of the man laying face down with his musket beside him and a large rock in the background. i have it somewhere - most of my Gettysburg books are back east - but i'll try to find it.

have been to Gettysburg numerous times and know the exact locations where these pix were taken. they are distinctly two different men killed a year apart.