Warr

Along the white surface of the dusty highway there was drawn a long smear of crimson, while beside this ominous stain there lay a murderous little pocket-bludgeon, such as Warr had described in the morning.

Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

Along the white surface of the dusty highway there was drawn a long smear of crimson, while beside this ominous stain there lay a murderous little pocket-bludgeon, such as Warr had described in the morning.

Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

Along the white surface of the dusty highway there was drawn a long smear of crimson, while beside this ominous stain there lay a murderous little pocket-bludgeon, such as Warr had described in the morning.

Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

John Warr, a painter in Scottsboro, Alabama, said that he knows all about how disputatious wildlife enthusiasts can be ( "I call them feather-counters"), but they are nothing compared to Civil War buffs, his other subject area.

Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

For him, "the good thing about painting Confederate soldiers is that they wore and used equipment that they found; it was a mismatch of everything," allowing Warr to use historically appropriate shoes, hats, clothing and guns but not ones that were actually known to have been used in one battle or another.

Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

For him, "the good thing about painting Confederate soldiers is that they wore and used equipment that they found; it was a mismatch of everything," allowing Warr to use historically appropriate shoes, hats, clothing and guns but not ones that were actually known to have been used in one battle or another.

Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

For him, "the good thing about painting Confederate soldiers is that they wore and used equipment that they found; it was a mismatch of everything," allowing Warr to use historically appropriate shoes, hats, clothing and guns but not ones that were actually known to have been used in one battle or another.

Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

For him, "the good thing about painting Confederate soldiers is that they wore and used equipment that they found; it was a mismatch of everything," allowing Warr to use historically appropriate shoes, hats, clothing and guns but not ones that were actually known to have been used in one battle or another.

Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

John Warr, a painter in Scottsboro, Alabama, said that he knows all about how disputatious wildlife enthusiasts can be ( "I call them feather-counters"), but they are nothing compared to Civil War buffs, his other subject area.

Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

John Warr learned about John Hunt Morgan's jackets from the John Hunt Morgan Society (an informal group composed of descendants and others) and about Nathan Bedford Forrest's left-handedness from a local history buff lawyer who had done an undergraduate thesis on the Confederate general.

Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010