Posted on 08/09/2015 7:31:06 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Very cool then & now photo shoot.
The women who dug the graves, the kids who watched the largest battle in US history – and the slaves forced to help fighters at the front. 150 years after the last shots were fired, Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the US photographing the sites scarred by the American civil war.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2015/jun/22/american-civil-war-photography-interactive
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620,000 dead, cities in ruin ... the civil war decimated the United States. To mark the 150th anniversary of its end, Guardian photographer David Levene took a trip across America to re-create some of the most iconic photographs taken at the time
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/22/photographing-the-american-civil-war-in-2015-recreate-iconic-photographs
Thank you for posting this article with the link to all those fantastic pictures!
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Awesome history......
mesmerizing....
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Truly awesome post!
Thank you!
Went to Gettysburg couple of years ago. Toured the battlefield by horseback. Highly recommend that.
After went to stay at the Fairfield Inn, few miles away. Recommend that, too. Goes back to I think the 1700s but in the Civil War it was a civil war hospital.
There was a skirmish on the grounds of this Inn in the civil war as well, just outside the Inn on it’s property.
We stayed in the Grumble Jones room. About 3am I got up to use the bathroom, my husband on the far side of the bed from it, still fast asleep.
When I went to leave the bathroom he started talking from the bed, saying something that made no sense to me and I asked him what he was talking about. He sat up and in an angry tone asked me why I was trying to stop him from going into the bathroom. I said what are you talking about you are in bed? He got up, repeating it as if he were looking for a fight and began to walk around the bed to where I was still standing in the doorway of the bathroom, which is btw, elevated up from the floor about 1.5 feet, it’s a very old house.
He stood in front of me, angry pose, wide awake I may add, saying what’s the idea of stopping him from going into the bathroom?
This was uncharacteristic of him totally. He does not walk in his sleep. Was not asleep. I kept trying to explain this never happened. Didn’t he remember he started out by being in the bed?
To this day he cannot remember anything but the way he said it that night, although he came to see reason, but not for several days.
I know it sounds crazy, but I think he was taken over or something by a civil war guy, who might’ve been on the other side of the battle but put up in the hospital, and a fight was started between two men.
Liberals twist in the wind over the slaves fighting voluntarily for the South. Screws up their narrative big time. Makes something black and white (sorry) just a little, tiny bit more complex.
Therefore, they were forced. Or they were mentally broken. But anyway, pointing it out can only be a justification of slavery, and so racist.
Jeez I'm weary of these idiot hypocrites.
Thanks for posting this. Simply amazing shots.
The only sad thing is that OUR American Enemy Media won’t report on something as IMPORTANT as this! We have to get our own d@mn HISTORY from the UK?
What is WRONG with THIS picture? Oh, that’s right. These Mediots, are destined to have us REPEAT History. Grrrr!
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Here's a similar one, depicting before and after pics from WWII.
These are wonderful photos - they leave me wanting more!
Somebody with decent photoshop abilities could do a similar photo essay of what a modern version of this would look like. That is, what things look like ‘now’, and then an ‘after’ in a post civil war 2 (God forbid). Kinda like that picture of Obama standing in those post war ruins with the caption “my work here is finished”, but using real landmarks.
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The British press is doing a much better job than ours.
I got to visit Manassas and Antietam while my daughter lived in DC. Fascinating.
That was fabulous!!!!!
Thank You!!!!
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