Robert Graves, c. 1914, age 19. Reported dead at the Somme, Graves was one of the few of his generation to survive the war. He became a translator, poet, and novelist, and was the author of I, Claudius. Graves died at the age of 90 in 1985, a model Daguerreotype boyfriend if there ever was one.
Submitted by rrendyourheart
Julius Franklin Howell joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, Howell eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made a rare recording at the Library of Congress, in which he described his enlistment, sudden capture, and his experience in the Union prison camp on the morning of April 15th, 1865, the morning Abraham Lincoln died.
[Submitted by nemide]
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, otherwise known as the Iron Duke. Here he is, conquering lands and setting fabulous fashion trends for the British military for years to come.
[Submitted by Monique (firstname.lastname@example.org)]