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A significant later effort to collect and publish photos of the American Civil War in an almost duplicate manner as the 1911 release, was the National Historical Society's 2,768-page The Image of War, 1861–1865 in six volumes under the overall auspices of renowned Civil War historians William C. Davis and Bell I. Wiley as senior editors. [3] The six, 464-496 page each, volume collection was ...
Deciding to forgo further action himself, Brady instead financed a corps of field photographers who, together with those employed by the Union military command and by Alexander Gardner, made the first extended photographic coverage of a war.
Images depict military personnel and facilities, primarily from a Union perspective. Includes the main Eastern theater, the federal navy and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, the war in the West, Washington, D.C., African Americans, fortifications, battlefields, preparations for battle and the aftermath of battle.
9 paź 2018 · Volume two, The image of war, 1861-1865. A photographic account of the military campaigns and ordinary camp life of both Northern and Southern soldiers during the first part of the Civil War. Includes portfolios of two noted photographers, Samuel Cooley and Henry P. Moore. "A project of the National Historical Society."
Images depict military personnel and facilities, primarily from a Union perspective. Includes the main Eastern theater, the federal navy and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, the war in the West, Washington, D.C., African Americans, fortifications, battlefields, preparations for battle and the aftermath of battle.
Each volume includes a historical essay that puts the volume's images into a historic perspective. The six volumes include: Shadows of the Storm, The Guns of '62, The Embattled Confederacy, Fighting for Time, The South Besieged, and The End of an Era.
Summary: V. 1 : "This book, in over 650 photographs, covers the last uneasy days of peace, the vicious guerrilla skirmishes in Kansas and Nebraska, and the first battles of a long and bloody war; Bull Run, Shiloh, Murfreesboro ..."
