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![]() ![]() ![]() Also, it looks as if the hapless re-enactor got his rank insignia wrong. ![]() Well, Gentle Reader, it appears you are right, at least most of the time. Didn't Confederate officers wear their rank insignia on their collars? cavalryman in such films as "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon." The reader noticed something wrong: The re-enactor was wearing shoulder boards to indicate his rank, like the ones John Wayne wore portraying a U.S. Accompanying the article was a photograph of a Civil War re-enactor portraying a Confederate artillery captain. A sharp-eyed reader, obviously a history buff, noticed a wire-service travel feature about preparations for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. He is wearing "shoulder boards." I thought those were only worn by Union forces and Confederates wore commissioned insignia on their collars. D of the Sunday June 23, 2013, StarNews had a photograph purporting to be of a Confederate artillery captain standing next to a Parrott rifle. ![]()
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