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A Harvest of Death, 1863. A Harvest of Death is the title of a photograph taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, sometime between July 4 and 7, 1863. It shows the bodies of soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, stretched out over part of the battlefield. It is the result of a singular photographic project by ...
Juliet Handy. . . (m. 1850; died 1887) . Signature. Mathew B. Brady[1] (c. 1822–1824 – January 15, 1896) was an American photographer. Known as one of the earliest and most famous photographers in American history, he is best known for his scenes of the Civil War. He studied under inventor Samuel Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype ...
A gift from J.E.B. Stuart, Lucy Long was the primary back-up horse used by Lee Methuselah: Ulysses S. Grant: Grant's first horse upon re-entering the Army in 1861 Milroy: John B. Gordon: The horse was captured from Union General Robert H. Milroy at Second Winchester in 1863 and subsequently named after him. Moscow: Philip Kearny
Something not generally known by the public is the fact that roughly 70% of the war's documentary photography was captured by the twin lenses of a stereo camera. [4] The American Civil War was the first war in history whose intimate reality would be brought home to the public, not only in newspaper depictions, album cards and cartes-de-visite ...
MPD Police Officer. Bass Reeves (July 1838 – January 12, 1910) was a runaway slave, gunfighter, farmer, scout, tracker, railroad agent and deputy U.S. Marshal. He spoke and understood the languages of several Native American tribes including Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole and Creek. Bass was one of the first African-American Deputy U ...
There are 130 known photographs of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's features were the despair of every artist who undertook his portrait. The writer saw nearly a dozen, one after another, soon after the first nomination to the presidency, attempt the task. They put into their pictures the large rugged features, and strong prominent lines; they made ...
William Baltzly was part of a group that took 2,000 photos while he was serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Though the Canton man's job was serving as a gunner-photographer in ...
Old Baldy in 1863. Old Baldy (ca. 1852 – December 16, 1882) was the horse ridden by Union Major General George G. Meade at the Battle of Gettysburg and in many other important battles of the American Civil War.