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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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PHOTOGRAPHERAND SOLDIER, 1862,AS THE ARMIES PAUSEDAFTER McCLELLANS ATTEMPT OX RICHMOND COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB brought to America and instructed in the photographic art by Brady himself. He proved so trustworthythat he was permitted in his spare time to indulge his hobby of photographing the soldiers themselves—a useless hobby it seemed then, since there was no way of reproducing the pictures direct on the printedpage. But Gardner, first and last an artist, worked so patiently and indefatigably that, before the cam-paign was over, he had secured thousands of outdoor views which, with the many that Brady took in 01and part of 62, and later in the path of Grants final campaign from the Wilderness to Richmond, formthe nucleus of the collection presented herewith. Needless to say, Gardner did not break faith with hisemployers or pass any of these photographs to Southern sympathizers, or through the Confederate lines.
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MATTHEW B. BRADY UNDER EIRE IN THE WORKS BEFORE PETERSBURG Shells were flying above the entrenchments before Petersburg at the time the photograph above was taken■—June 21, 1864—but so inured to this war-music have the veterans become thai only one or two of themto the right are squatting or lying down. The calmness is shared even by Brady, the indomitable littlephotographer. lie stands (at the left of the right-hand section above) quietly gazing from beneath thebrim of his straw hat—conspicuous among the dark forage caps and felts of the soldiers—in the same direc-tion in which the officer is peering so eagerly through his field-glass. Brady appears twice again in the (Brady)

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