Photographic History of the Civil War 10 Books on CD + 2 BONUS Books on DVD

The
Photographic History
of
The
Civil
War
Editor
: Francis T.
Miller
1911
10 Volumes
in PDF
Format on 1 CD
Thousands of
Photo’s
Volume 1 –  The
Opening Battles.
(368
pages)
Volume 2 –  Two Years of Grim
War.
(363
pages)
Volume 3 –  The decisive
battles.
(353
pages)
Volume 4 –  The
cavalry.
(336
pages)
Volume 5 –  Forts and
artillery.
(316
pages)
Volume 6 –  The
navies.
(322
pages)
Volume 7 –  Prisons and
hospitals.
(352
pages)
Volume 8 –  Soldier life,
Secret service.
(382
pages)
Volume 9 –  Poetry and
Eloquence of Blue and Gray.
(353
pages)
Volume 10 – Armies and
leaders.
(362
pages)
The American Civil War (1861-1865) was the
fourth war in history to be caught on camera. The first three were the
Mexican-American War (1846-1848) the Crimean War (1854-1856) and Indian
Rebellion of 1857.
Photography profoundly changed the way wars
were covered and viewed. Any grandeur and sweetness of an aftermath of a
victorious battle, which was once up to a painter to portray, all of a sudden
became uninterpretable. Losing its subjectivity, the true terror of war could
not be hidden anymore. Americans for the first time saw the vividly horrific
photographs of maimed and dying fellow Americans in agony slowly withering
away on a battlefield far away from their homes. Astonishment and shock, not
toward the cruelty of war as much as to the newly innovated barbaric weapons
of war left Americans bewildered. As newspapers did not yet have the
technology or equipment for making half-tone blocks, magazines across the land
published cadaverous pictorial representations of the worst of
humanity.
“BONUS CD”
With 2 more Books
Containing Hundreds More Photos
The Civil War through the Camera
:
Hundreds of vivid photographs
actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson’s new history by Henry
William Elson and R. Iguana – (1912) – 598 pages
Pleasants Photograph Album by Frances
Pleasants:
Photograph album of Frances Pleasants, who
taught wounded soldiers at the
Army
Hospital
in
Germantown
,
PA
during the Civil War. Presented to her by
her patients, it contains photographs of them as well as other Civil War
images by D.L. Clark -(1865) – 56 pages
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