One of the rarer photographs of Doubleday I was able to come across on the internet - according to reddit user chubachus, this is a postcard from 1847 showing Doubleday with Mexican youth during the Mexican American War. The image is rough but when you think I came from an itinerate photographer 175 years ago, that fact that it exists at all is amazing. I'll also post a digitally cleaned up (apparently mirror image) version of the original:
The only other thing I really wanted to post was an artist's rendition of the Battle of Monterrey which is almost assuredly an inaccurate stylized account of things but I find it interesting to remember in an era when urban warfare is more and more common - particularly which what is happening in Ukraine right now - it isn't a new concept of the last few decades. This type of warfare has been around for centuries and centuries and I can only image that it was just as devastating for all involved then (soldiers, civilians, innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire), as it is today.
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