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  2. Mathew Brady - Wikipedia

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    Mathew Benjamin 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.

  3. Photographers of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. The Photographic History of the Civil War - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. Liljenquist collection - Wikipedia

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    Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. is a collection of photographs and ephemera related to the American Civil War. The bulk of the collection comprises ambrotypes , tintypes , and cartes de visite of individual soldiers and officers from both sides of the conflict.

  6. United States Army enlisted rank insignia 1851–1901 - Wikipedia

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    The army was reorganized for the Civil War. On July 29, 1861 [6] the ranks of commissary sergeant, saddler sergeant, veterinary sergeant, hospital steward, company quartermaster sergeant and wagoner were added to the cavalry. The ranks of commissary sergeant, drum major and leader of the band and hospital steward were added to the infantry.

  7. George N. Barnard - Wikipedia

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    Barnard is best known for American Civil War era photos. He was the official army photographer for the Military Division of the Mississippi commanded by Union general William T. Sherman; that position mostly involved photographing and documenting fortifications, bridges, and documents.

  8. List of American Civil War generals (Union) - Wikipedia

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    Sifakis, Stewart, Who Was Who in the Civil War. Facts On File, New York, 1988. ISBN 0-8160-1055-2. United States War Department, The Military Secretary's Office, Memorandum Relative to the General Officers in the Armies of the United States During the Civil War, 1861–1865, (Compiled from Official Records.) 1906.

  9. Gary W. Gallagher - Wikipedia

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    Gary William Gallagher (born October 8, 1950) is an American historian specializing in the history of the American Civil War. Gallagher is currently the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. [3] He produced a lecture series on the American Civil War for The Great Courses lecture series.