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They stare intently into the camera lens, perhaps having a "likeness struck" for the first time. Some wear dark-blue uniforms prescribed by state regulations. Others are clad in Confederate gray. They are but a small sampling of the thousands who answered the South's call to arms from 1859 to 1865. These images--more than four hundred in all--are part of the extensive collection of Confederate photographs housed in the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery.
 African-American family, Dallas County, c. 1890. Silas Trippe photographed African Americans at several different locations in Dallas County. (Courtesy Alabama Department of Archives and History) In 1870 a Civil War veteran from Pennsylvania settled in Selma, Alabama. By profession he was a jeweler, but by avocation he was a photographer. His name was Silas Orlando Trippe, and it is because of his hobby that we know him today.
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