Category: History - American
Rare Reproductions from Photographs Selected from Seven Thousand Original Negatives Taken under Most Hazardous Conditions in the Midst of One of the Most Terrific Conflicts of Men that the World Has Ever Known, and in the Earliest Days of Photography--These Negatives Have Been...
Rare Reproductions from Photographs Selected from Seven Thousand Original Negatives Taken under Most Hazardous Conditions in the Midst of One of the Most Terrific Conflicts of M...
2. Part 2In talking with Mr. Taylor, in his office at the State Capitol at Hartford, Connecticut, recently he recalled his acquaintance with Brady, and said: "I met him frequently. He wa...
3. Part 3"THEY have fired on Fort Sumter!" These are the words that rang across the continent on the morning of the twelfth of April, in 1861, and the echo was heard around the world. Th...
4. Part 4THE downfall of Washington in the first days of the war would have meant the downfall of the Republic. What changes this would have wrought in the history of the Western Contine...
5. Part 5BRADY'S cameras took an active part in the campaign about Richmond, the Capital of the Confederacy. Four of the old negatives are here reproduced. The first is a view of light f...
6. Part 6A FEW days after Burnside replaced McClellan in command of the Army of the Potomac, this photograph was taken while he was with his staff at Warrenton, Virginia, in the middle o...
7. Part 7THE turning point of the Civil War is the Battle of Gettysburg. From that day the Confederate cause began to wane. Few battles of modern times show such great percentage of loss...
8. Part 8UNDER fire from the Confederates, Corse's Brigade struggled desperately for an hour and a half without gaining advantage, while Generals Loomis and Smith took possession of Miss...
9. Part 9SHERMAN, in his campaign in Georgia in 1864, was much interested in the cameras that followed his army and urged the photographer to take negatives of every movement as his forc...
10. Part 10THE last stronghold of the Southern Confederacy on the Atlantic Coast fell early in 1865. On the twelfth of January operations were agreed upon for the final assault on Fort Fis...
11. Part 11THE Eaton Collection of Original Photographs of the Civil War, the full history of which is given in the introductory to this Volume, is now for the first time unveiled to the p...
12. Part 12Log bridge across North Anna River at Quarle's mill, where portion of Fifth Corps crossed and carried enemy's line of works on crest of hill, May, 1864, =S.=759, =S.=760.
13. Part 13--ten different interior views of traverses, showing guns dismounted and destruction caused by bombardment, =L.=7061, =L.=7195, =L.=7243, =S.=1230, =S.=1233, =S.=1235, =S.=1238,...
14. Part 1415. Part 15Abbott, Bvt. Brig.-Gen. I. C., =S.=1469. Abercrombie, Brig.-Gen. J. J., =S.=1526. Abert, Bvt. Brig.-Gen. W S., =S.=3178. Adams, Lieut.-Col. A. D., 27th N. Y. Infantry, =S.=1964....
16. Part 16=1st.= _At Fort Richardson, Va._: --Officers of regiment, =C.=4534. --Interior of Fort Richardson, =C.=4547. --Camp at Fort Richardson, =C.=4552. _At Fort Darling, James River,...
17. Part 17=22d.= Lieut.-Col. L. Aspinwall, =S.=3733. Officers of regiment, =C.=4010. Adjutant and First Sergeants, =C.=4135. Company --, =C.=4194. Company --, =C.=4134. Groups, =C.=4155,...
18. Part 18Corporal Tanner says: "The volume instantly commanded my most undivided attention. Why, it is like rolling back the scroll forty-five years. In every respect, as to faithfulness...