Amazing Original Photographs from the Civil War

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/civil_war.html ^

[navysealdad]

Whether you like history or not... These are pretty amazing considering they were taken up to 145 years ago: A compendium of photos from the Civil War era. Truly fortunate that so many of these have survived. Probably a million wet plate photos were made during the civil war on glass plate.

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Couldn’t access the site.

[BillyBonebrake]

angelfire ...

[knarf]

Me too .. I thought it was my popup blocker, but nope ... just loading, loading, loading ....

[230FMJ]

for later

[Cheetahcat]

Way cool thank you for posting this.

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I didn’t even get a load. I got to some page that said click here to view the pics and then I got some pop up that I get when ixquick is unable to access a site. I tried it about 3 times.

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Obviously Photoshopped!

As we all know Now, in our enlightened NEW AGE of Obama, American History did not officially begin until 1877! LOL.

Of COURSE you know I am teasing. Those are GREAT. Thank You. I am a Civil War Nut on top of everything else. LOL

[JoeProBono]

[BigEdLB]

Those are very interesting. I am always on the lookout for a photo containing either my great-grandfather (Private from Ohio) or my great-grandmother’s brother (Sergeant from Pennsylvania) who actually died a POW.

[stuartcr]

Wasn’t Lincoln prior to 1877? I thought Obama was a lincoln fan? Aren’t you talking about the NC school books?

[trisham]

We visited Gettysburg last summer. I highly recommend it.

[frithguild]

Archibald McLeish's Vulcan Iron Works and Other Houses on Cumberland Street - Charleston, SC, 1865

Somehow, I do not think this sinage would get past a modern building inspector...

[knarf]

OK .. what the hell's going on here?

I right click your reply and get a photo adress, but your FR post is blank

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Yes, the NC Curriculum, and some other states are trying to do this too!

I think 1877 saw the birth of the Labor Movement in the USA. That must be it.

[TheVitaminPress]

Remember when Obama told that crowd in Selma Alabama that he was conceived in 1961 because of events that occurred in 1964? This is a man that is not limited to the normal conditions of time-space.

[Ramius]

Gadzooks. That’s some sign.

[AuntB]

I have a wonderful old book of photos/sketches that I used in writing my book. My parents bought it for me when I was VERY young. It is mainly from the files of Harper’s Weekly.

The Civil War in Pictures by Fletcher Pratt 1955 Garden City Books.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

FWIW, I remember reading that in 1889 the War Department had over two million Civil War glass plate photographs, most of which were not well catalogued or captioned.

[frithguild]

Stunning.

Ruins of houses in Fredericksburg, VA