Casual Civil War Buttoning
The Author is familiar with the fashionable hand-in-waistcoat pose, most famously styled by Napoleon, but only recently started encountering the less famous hand-not-in-waistcoat-but-waistcoat-still-unbuttoned pose. These three Civil War soldiers, portrayed in zinc (hence poor preservation), paint and photograph, are prime examples of this fad. Perhaps the fashion evolved from the stately hand-in-waistcoat pose to a more casual, man-of-action unbuttoned look.
The Artilleryman, encountered at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn (which the Author highly recommends), has a particularly casual way of wearing his clothes: waistcoat unbuttoned, coat falling off his shoulders and hat at a jaunty angle.
The Artilleryman from Green-Wood Cemetery’s Civil War Soldiers’ Monument
The Artilleryman from Green-Wood Cemetery’s Civil War Soldiers’ Monument
The Artilleryman from Green-Wood Cemetery’s Civil War Soldiers’ Monument
the Diligent Observer 
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Charlotte Lancaster
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:26 PM, the Diligent Observer wrote:
> a Diligent Observer posted: “The Author is familiar with the fashionable > hand-in-waistcoat pose, most famously styled by Napoleon, but only recently > started encountering the less famous > hand-not-in-waistcoat-but-waistcoat-still-unbuttoned pose. These three > Civil War soldiers, portra” >