Iris Lee Gay Jordan, 92 (left), and Fred Upham, 93 (right)—two of the few remaining children of veterans of the Civil War—appear as they might have had they lived in the 1860s. The photographs are tintypes, made on a chemical-coated wet plate with a lens manufactured in 1862.PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER ESSICK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (by David A. Lande, National Geographic) -- How many people alive today can say that their father was a Civil War soldier who shook hands with Abraham Lincoln in the White House? Fred Upham can.Despite sounding like a tall tale and a mathematical impossibility, it's documented truth.
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