Searching for Nathan Bracken.

Every time I run across this photograph I think, "Nah." That photograph is identified as the 110th Pennsylvania Infantry camp near Falmouth, Virginia, December, 1862. Really? Doesn't look cold. Isn't wet. Guys relaxing look pretty comfortable, like they could take a nap. One's got his bare band on the ground. Everybody's bare-handed. Sun seems pretty strong. The supervisor in the greatcoat is squinting. The air looks warm and dry. The whole composition just does not "feel" December, northern Virginia. Been to Fredericksburg in December. Didn't look like that, didn't feel like that. Cold AND wet. Wasn't like that at all.