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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 66945, member: 59"]I'm a bit skeptical about the US Civil War idea. The building and mountain in the background don't look like any part of the southern US I can think of. The fellow's shoes look better suited to dancing than soldiering. And if I recall correctly the "carpetbaggers" were northern businessmen, not the Union soldiers themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that said, the person who made it could have applied her own "artistic license" to it, perhaps copying the background from some other subject.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 66945, member: 59"]I'm a bit skeptical about the US Civil War idea. The building and mountain in the background don't look like any part of the southern US I can think of. The fellow's shoes look better suited to dancing than soldiering. And if I recall correctly the "carpetbaggers" were northern businessmen, not the Union soldiers themselves. All that said, the person who made it could have applied her own "artistic license" to it, perhaps copying the background from some other subject.[/QUOTE]
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