katarn wrote:So... not an ancestor?
No. I was just looking for a cool civil war-era portrait for my avatar and didn't want to go with the famous people. I like the idea of that common man, and that guy is epic with the bowie knife, gun, and Countenance of Peace.
Generationally speaking, I am not very far removed from the war (grandfather was born in 1874), so it would feel a bit too personal to put a great grandfather's mugshot up in there.