How photography brought home the Civil War
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We've all seen photographs of the Civil War: black-and-white images of bearded Union generals or mustachioed Confederate colonels posing to one side of the camera, dead bodies stacked on the battlefield or common soldiers around a camp tent.
We've all seen photographs of the Civil War: black-and-white images of bearded Union generals or mustachioed Confederate colonels posing to one side of the camera, dead bodies stacked on the battlefield or common soldiers around a camp tent.
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The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . -linas example in dissolving the Federal con pact.It
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Select images from the American Civil War Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPYRIGHT. 1911, HEVIEW 0* REVIEWS CO- JOHN BURNS STOOD AT HIS