"Surrendering/captured poses in ACW?" Topic
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ConfederateSwede | 01 Dec 2016 11:59 a.m. PST |
Ok so maybe this is the most stupid question yet to be asked in the forum but….I was looking for figure conversions for ACW prisoners, did captured soldiers hold their hands at the top of their head like the second figure from left in the last row seen here: link Or is this a more modern pose not appropriate for ACW? |
MajorB | 01 Dec 2016 12:05 p.m. PST |
You put your hands where the guy with the gun tells you to. |
Flashman14 | 01 Dec 2016 12:06 p.m. PST |
Napoleonics needs this option too. |
sebastien | 01 Dec 2016 2:32 p.m. PST |
In no circumstances will any of my toy soldiers be seen surrendering!!! |
Ooh Rah | 01 Dec 2016 4:04 p.m. PST |
Lancashire Games has some ACW prisoners in their Blaze Away Miniatures range. link The range is listed as 10mm, but they are much bigger than any of my other 10mm. |
Extrabio1947 | 01 Dec 2016 6:43 p.m. PST |
Some period drawings illustrate ACW troops surrendering by holding their weapons in a vertical position with the butts up and the barrels pointing down. Their hands are grasping their weapons near the ends of the barrels and held about chest high. |
J1mwallace | 02 Dec 2016 3:10 a.m. PST |
Perry/ Foundry do some surrendering figures |
EJNashIII | 07 Jan 2017 10:31 p.m. PST |
Your question would depend on how the surrender was performed. If it was just some guys giving up there might be a hands over the head moment until the everyone was disarmed and the heat of the moment had passed. Here is an example from the 9th New Hampshire capturing a lone rebel. link However, if it was a organized unit with officers present, generally a surrender was done as a formal thing where the surrendering unit would march out under a white flag in front of the enemy (who were drawn up in a parade formation). Then, they would stack their arms, then march off to internment. Nobody would subject them to the humiliation of hands up. In fact, the surrendered men would still have their rifles and ammo up to the stacking ceremony and their eating knives, etc. after the fact. Surrendering officers might even be allowed to keep their side arms/swords as they were personal property rather than government property and they where expected to behave as proper gentleman and continue to discipline their own men until they were separated to go to a prison camp until they were exchanged or paroled.
The 150th anniversary Appomattox surrender: YouTube link |
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