 In 2010, Andrew Chandler Battaile, Jr. had the original tintype of the photo appraised on the TV show, Antiques Roadshow, and later the relationship between Andrew and Silas was featured in the show History Detectives.In the 2000s and 2010s, pro-Confederate websites sold merchandise depicting the pair.The pair continued to be used as an example of black Confederate soldiers at least up until January 2016, where they were used in a syndicated column of the "Richmond Times-Dispatch".