Research; Information.
Civil War Photography.
The Civil War was the fourth war to be photographed, but every time a new war was photographed the pictures became better and more life-like. Before this war there had never been any photographs taken of a battle. During this war people saw what it was really like to be out there with your life on the line. People saw blood and dead bodies for the first time. The pictures weren't always sad though. Like the picture below you can see all of the men are smiling just living the daily life of a soldier in the Civil War, but the picture above is quite sad. Fields full of dead men in this time in our American History, and thanks to men like Mathew B. Brady, we who have not witnessed this war can now see it a hundred years later.
Mathew B. Brady is what some call a "synonym" for Civil War photography. Brady may have taken only a few photographs of the war by himself, but he employed many of the other well-known photographers before and during the war. Alexander Gardner and James F. Gibson at different times managed Brady's Washington studio. Timothy O'Sullivan, James Gardner, and Egbert Guy Fox were also employed by Brady during the conflict.
Union hospital during the American Civil War
Going into the army the soilders are aware of the dangers they were going to have to face. But of these brave, courageous men, 620,000 individuals lost their lives during the Civil War. Some were killed in combat, some from illnesses. No matter how they died, they died fighting for our country. And Civil War photography captures events that actually happened during the Civil War.
Going into the army the soilders are aware of the dangers they were going to have to face. But of these brave, courageous men, 620,000 individuals lost their lives during the Civil War. Some were killed in combat, some from illnesses. No matter how they died, they died fighting for our country. And Civil War photography captures events that actually happened during the Civil War.
Of course the soilders had to live a lifestyle surrounded by danger. But isn't it weird to you how the Civil War photographers lived that type of lifestlye just to capture photographs of the Civil War? I think so. But think how weird it'd be learning about the Civil War if they hadn't. I know some people that are best at learning when they actually see pictures instead of reading out of a book. That is why I am happy photographers like, Matthew Brady were able to capture photographs like this. Sometimes war got to dangerous to even step foot near to capture pictures of, un-armed. But you better believe once it was safe enough to enter the battle fields people like him were there to photograph the aftermath.
Things like this were what was considered the 'aftermath.'
Links to different websites:
- http://www.civilwarphotography.org/
- Civil War Photographs collection, Prints & Photographs division,
- Selected Civil War photographs, American Memory, Library of Congress
- Civil War photos, U.S.
- The photographic history of the civil war... Francis Trevelyan Miller, editor-in-chief; Robert S. Lanier, managing editor. Thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities. Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews Co., 1911-12
- Civil War Band Collection: 1st Brigade Band of Brodhead, Wisconsin
- Photographic History of the Civil War An etext of the 1912 10 volume edition (Also available from Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC01467122)
- Civil War Era Digital Collection at Gettysburg College Collection contains photographs of Civil War soldiers
