Recently I stumbled on a treasure trove of photographs of Civil War soldiers in the archives of the Library of Congress. I spent hours looking through the portraits of those long-ago heroes, most of whose names and stories are lost in the mists of history. But being the careful scholar that I am, I noticed that there were more than a few drop-dead gorgeous soldiers in that photo archive. That led me to make this portrait album of 27 handsome soldiers from the Civil War.
Choosing which men to include in my portrait album was no easy task, let me tell you. With a lot of help from my writer’s group, I whittled my gallery of dozens of portraits down to twenty-seven men. A few were famous. Most are completely unknown today. All we have left of them is their faces — some bold, some reserved, some raffish, some soulful — but all men who were willing to put their lives on the line for a cause they believe in. And all worth a second look, or even a third.
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