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A significant later effort to collect and publish photos of the American Civil War in an almost duplicate manner as the 1911 release, was the National Historical Society's 2,768-page The Image of War, 1861–1865 in six volumes under the overall auspices of renowned Civil War historians William C. Davis and Bell I. Wiley as senior editors. [3]
Sharswood Plantation, also known as Sharswood Manor Estate, is a historic plantation house in Gretna, Virginia.Prior to the American Civil War, Sharswood operated as a 2,000-acre tobacco plantation under the ownership of Charles Edwin Miller and Nathaniel Crenshaw Miller.
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, but in a popular new 3D format called a "stereograph," "stereocard" or "stereoview." Millions of these cards were produced and purchased by a public eager to ...
McGuire was a Confederate veteran, Stonewall Jackson's personal physician, and an influential supporter of the "Lost Cause" view of the Confederacy and the Civil War. The Memorial Granite Pile, Confederate Section, Hollywood Cemetery; Monument Avenue featured monuments of Confederate leaders. [38]
Francis Trevelyan Miller (October 8, 1877 – November 7, 1959) was an American writer and filmmaker.. He is known for his books about exploration, travel and photography.He wrote many books about the American Civil War, including The Photographic History of the Civil War, in Ten Volumes (New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1912).
Dodona Manor, c. 1805, Loudoun County – home of General George C. Marshall; Evergreen, c. 1800, Prince George County - birthplace of Edmund Ruffin; Frascati, 1821, Orange County, - home of U.S. Supreme Court justice Philip P. Barbour; Ferry Plantation House c. 1830, Virginia Beach — Civil War Home of USN/CSN Cmdr. Charles Fleming McIntosh
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George Smith Cook (February 23, 1819 – November 27, 1902) was an early American photographer known as a pioneer in the development of the field. Primarily a studio portrait photographer, he is the first to have taken a photograph of combat during a war: he captured images in 1863 of Union ironclads firing on Fort Moultrie in South Carolina during the Civil War.