1860s CIVIL WAR Photo Confederate FT Beauregard Lincoln Outdoor Camp LA soldier

  
1860s CIVIL WAR Photo Confederate FT Beauregard Lincoln Outdoor Camp LA soldier. Incredible scarce (maybe unknown as I cannot find another) of the Inside of Fort Beauregard during the Civil War. Someone identified Abraham Lincoln being in the photo but I do not believe it is him AT ALL but def someone who looked alot alike. I can understand why a later relative thought it was him. The photo is mounted and the PHOTO measures 3" x 3.25" Incredible image.

Fort Beauregard was the first Confederate-built earthen fort surrounding Manassas Junction. In June 1861, soldiers of the 11th and 17th Virginia spent. Time making the position [around the junction] as impregnable as possible. " "The work, " wrote the 17th Virginia's historian, "progressed rapidly; large earthworks and field fortifications, with wings and covers of rifle pits, and infantry works, sprang up on all sides.

Details from the different regiments in camp were daily employed in digging and ditching. By the end of the Confederate occupation of Manassas Junction in the spring of 1862, there were 17 earthwork fortifications around the vital rail junction. On March 13, 1862, New Jersey brigade soldiers advanced towards the abandoned Fort Beauregard.

The wily Confederates "mounted pine logs in the parapets" to throw off the Federals. "I expect the Johnnies laughed at the cautious manner in which we advanced on those wooden guns, " wrote one soldier. "It was no joke to us; we expected them to belch forth grape and canister into our ranks" until they discovered the innocent caliber of the wooden logs.

"We had our laugh while making coffee over the fire from the wooden guns, " joked the relieved New Jerseyan. Fort Beauregard saw real action later that year when "Stonewall" Jackson's Confederates reoccupied and used it to pounce on the same brigade of unsuspecting New Jerseyans during the Battle of Bull Run Bridge on August 27, 1862. After the Civil War, the local populace began to plow away the war's scars on the landscape. "Wherever we turn the eye rests on some dismantled fort or rifle pit, now grown over with wild shrubbery and with now and then a small tree grown from the seed of fruit eaten by some soldier whose remains may be buried beneath the sod of yon cemetery, " wrote one visitor to the area in 1869. Fort Beauregard and many other fortifications still stand, but instead of the frowning guns and the tramp of the sentinels with his glistening bayonet as it reflected the sun's rays, they are now the favorite resort of the goat and sheep that browse upon their parapets and rest in their embrasures. Please follow me and check out my other auctions. Please see photos for item condition.

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