That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 29, 2019

“We are sending you to a place where you’ll have to drink unsweetened iced tea.”

“We won because we have the spiffy uniforms. You guys just blend into the background like those guys over there.”

“How was it that we discovered your ambush? Well, there was a certain little stink that gave us a clue.”

“If you’re really the Allman Brothers Band, where are your instruments?”

(All together now, “We don’t got to show you….”

You have been found guilty of treason against the United States. For your punishment, you will be forced to talk like a Bostonian and never use an R for the rest of your life.

“I’ll can beat you all with my hands tied behind my back”

“We seek the Holy Grail” “None shall pass”

UN=free – Bird !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa3QpnXtU88

“Here’s the deal, freedom is yours for a moon pie and a Dr Pepper. I’d just about sell my soul for a bucket of the Colnel’s chicken with biscuits and a side right now.”

Bittersweet Home Alabama

Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?

“Gotcha. It was the ‘rebel yell’ thingy, guys. Can’t stand that. Makes our guys fight like crazy. It’ll probably lose you the war.”

No, but Frank here knows the former drummer for Tom Petty’s band.

So, it’s agreed. You guys travel to the fields of Gettysburg and I will arrange a big reception.

According to the Met’s page about it at https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11133, we’ve got a real incident here. “Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow (1834–1896) captured several Confederate officers on June 21, 1864.” Why Homer only shows some of them is a mystery.

Would you like to see it in person? No problem. “On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 762.”

There’s more at http://www.winslowhomer.org/prisoners-from-the-front.jsp, where we learn that Barlow was a friend of Homer’s. Nice mutual benefit—the painting enhances Barlow’s reputation and made Homer famous at the same time.

Last but not least, there’s sn interesting interpretation of the psinting and related works in an essay at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/03/the-seething-hell from The New Yorker.

Great Moments in Phallic Portraiture #367: The North Symbollically Shows It’s Stuff

“Do you know the way to San Jose?”

Hey. You with the mullet. What you got in your pocket?

And they said, “Gimme back my bullets”.

Winslow Homer painted the Civil War! Stupid me…I didn’t know.

Southern man don’t need you round anyhow.

“This guy with the grey beard IS the last surviving original member of Skynyrd.”

Prisoners from the Front: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winslow_Homer_-_Prisoners_from_the_Front.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. The 2nd Notes points to the same book page as the studies link in the 1st URL from a couple days ago. Coincidence? or did Mr. Melcher find this painting there?

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/homer_winslow.html 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/homer/homer_bio.htm 

http://www.all-art.org/history458-2.html 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/h/homer/biograph.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/winslow-homer 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=91 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/495/winslow-homer 

http://www.avictorian.com/homer_winslow.html 

http://totallyhistory.com/winslow-homer/ 

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/winslow-homer-1836-1910-americas-painter-99052589/115630.html 

https://www.sullivangoss.com/artists/winslow-homer-1836-1910 

http://hoocher.com/Winslow_Homer/Winslow_Homer.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 7 works by him have been used here (8 times, including 1 repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/08/18?comments=visible 

has the prior work (the repeat, my comment there had the last artist info URL).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2169 (March 28, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Hello, boys…… which one of you finds me attractive?"

A Lynyrd Skynyrd joke?! Too soon!

“Sir, we may be on opposite sides, but I sense we both have a fondness for Captain Morgan rum.”

“There are five of us…and one Yankee with a sword still in its scabbard…let’s rush him!”

You’ll all have to wear the red hats of surrender.

You two Yankee devils captured my whole Division with a single musket and a sword still in its scabbord? I’m beginning to doubt my men’s personal investment in this conflict.

I think you are missing the point on Steve Melcher’s work