URL of original document retrieved 3/6/1995: http://rs6.loc.gov/cwphome.html

Selected Civil War Photographs

Image: Portraits of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress


The Selected Civil War Photographs Collection contains 1,118 photographs. Most of the images were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men.


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Special presentation:

Time Line for the Civil War


Background information:

Description of the collection

Phototechnical note

Officer's rank in captions

Mathew B. Brady

Photographers

Taking photographs at the time of the Civil War

Bibliographies


Introduction to the 1961 microfilm edition

CD-ROM Edition

How to order Photographic Prints and Microfilm


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From The Civil War and the Internet, Copyright 1995. R. Muns.