A Gallant Captain

Captain Frank Tilcomb
Co. B, Alabama State Artillery
Hand-colored carte de visite by
Hinton & Oppenheimer, Mobile.

A Young Union Soldier

Carte de visite from
Mrs. L. A. Hicks Photograph Gallery, Brooklyn

Chatham Islanders c.1860

The inhabitants of the Chatham Islands, the Moriori, had dwindled to about 100 in 1860 due to massacres by Maori warriors, transported from New Zealand on British vessels in 1835. A survivor recalled:

[The Maori] commenced to kill us like sheep.... [We] were terrified, fled to the bush, concealed ourselves in holes underground, and in any place to escape our enemies. It was of no avail; we were discovered and killed - men, women and children indiscriminately". A Maori conqueror justified their actions as follows: "We took possession... in accordance with our customs and we caught all the people. Not one escaped...." From Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies", p. 53, Jared Diamond, 1997, New York, W.W. Norton. Via Wikipedia.