Original Civil War Photographs

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

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Truly fortunate that so many of these have survived.  Probably a million wet plate photos were made during the civil war on glass plate.  Popular during the war, they lost their appeal afterwards and so many were sold for the glass.  Many were used to build green houses. Over the years the sun caused the images to disappear.

These are pretty amazing considering they were taken up to 150 years ago: A compendium of photos from the Civil War era.

http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html

My opologies if these have been posted before.  I did search first.  This were sent to me by a frontier action shooting friend

[Delmonico]

Always nice to have referance to picture collections.

I know at least part of them if not most or all can be gotten at higher resaloution here:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

[Delmonico]

Added, when opening these at the 80-100 meg range they make older computors groan a bit, but worth the time and effort.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Some are fairly well seen, but some aren't that well known. Thanks for the link.......Buck

[Major 2]

That was fun.... if you scroll down to the Generals portraits
before you put your mouse on them try to guess who they are  ,  your curser will pop up a bubble with the name.

I missed/or did not know 5, good to know I'm not suffering "old timers"  

[Bugscuffle]

fabulous photos. Thank you for the link. Now if they would only learn to spell cemetery..........