Student needs a Reader for Master Thesis

[John Schillinger]

Dear Seelangers---	
	Living as we do near several Civil War battlegrounds in the  
Shenandoah Valley, I came upon the current issue (Dec. 2008) of The  
Civil War Times.  On the last page is what is described as a photo  
of   "A Trio of Union Tars" with an accompanying explanation of their  
clothing .  The Inscriptions on their caps, however,  show them more  
likely to be Russian, than Union.  Anyone have an explanation?  What I  
can make out оn one of the caps is OCS lettering that ends  
in ..АРЖРЪ (where Ж is the vowel that resembles  Ж--sorry, I  
don't have an OCS font) preceded by two indistinguishable letters--the  
second letter could be a B, thus:   (?)BАРЖРЪ.  (A spelling of the  
Aurora?)

	Just a mistaken attribution, or were there really some Russians  
involved in the war between our states?  The source of the picture is  
given as the Library of Congress.

	

John Schillinger
Emeritus Prof. of Russian
American University

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