General James Longstreet

The commander of the right wing of Lees army was ‘Pete’ Longstreet, his ‘Old warhorse’.

The Stretlets version of him was in my opinion wrong so I pinched the Stretlets standing infantry officer who looked a lot like Longstreet and attached him after some sawing to a pair of legs.

A better sword from the bits box and a sweeping broom straw for a cigar and hey presto!

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I was really quite pleased with him with just a little tidying up required after seeing how he photographed.

However.......

A little more research and it appears that due to an infected heel Mr L wore carpet slippers at this most bloody of American battles!

A very nice article called the Antietam Journal states that Longstreet wore one slipper on his left foot. Whilst holding his officers horses who were serving guns he is stated to be sitting side saddle.

I fancy that galloping around side saddle would not be too practical and this was a temporary expedient. You need your feet in the stirrups to control your horse so it’s time to saw his left foot off.

Again, back to the drawing board.

I thought that Quatre Bras was a mass of contradictory information but the bizarre seems to be alive and present at Antietam.

Another interesting fact was that generals John Bell Hood and A.P. Hill had fallen out with General Thomas Jackson and prior to Antietam had been travelling at the rear of their columns under arrest! A command nightmare.

Even Jackson got in on the injury circus having a few days previously had his horse fall on him, bruising him badly.

Happy Modelling.

Chris

Apologies but the picture links are not showing in the text.

The links are active and if some can advise me how to get them to be live rather than having to visit then I would be very grateful.

Best wishes,

Chris

Your link above took me to the postimage page and I clicked on the "Share" button top left.
It's wierd but the "Direct Link" option worked one time but when I tried again it gave the same error you had.

I posted the picture above by selecting "Direct Link" right clicking on the link and copying it, then pasting it between img in square brackets and /img in square brackets. It looks like this except leave out the two * symbols:

[*img]https://i.postimg.cc/jdJFBL4B/1-E872-F3-C-4-A13-4-C62-857-B-6-B9-A759-F3-EF3.jpg[*/img]

The Longstreet figure is looking very good so far by the way.

click on "Share"

Use "Thumbnail for forums" for this:



"Hotlink for forums for this




Thats the way it should work but there does appear to be a problem as I had to modify the code for it to show (and the images arn't active), by removing the first and last part...

Not had a problem with this code before, but I notice that the modified code has now become the normal BBcode for images Allowed by this forum... so clearly only a link of this type will work... unless I'm missing something...

This one works by BBcode supplied by the forum, dont use the share function on postimage as none will produce an image:

The BBcode link on this forum is located top left of the reply panel next to "Enter Message"

Bracket = [ or ]

Bracketimg]right click on image and "copy image location", paste it here[/imgBracket






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Thanks Ironsides.

As usual you are the master in these things.

I used the link for forums which works on other sites but here for some reason.

I will have another go.

Best wishes,

Chris

Along with his infected foot one could also hint that at Gettysburg Longstreet also had one metaphorical hand tied behind his back...