Amazing Civil War photos
 

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...places/100241/

Sorry if you have seen these before but these are some amazing pictures of the war that tore this great country apart.

Grumpy

Love them old pictures.

Thanks,

Chas

Those were some great pictures. The quality is quite amazing given the state of technology at the time. Good 'Ol Pinkerton, high in the saddle, probably isn't too popular with our liberal friends here.:D

Pinkerton still ain't too popular in Missouri, at least with the crowd I run with.

Things you see when you ain't got a gun.

Chas

Deguerrotype? The quality is amazing.

Dave

Great pictures. I'm very familiar to the locales portrayed in most of these pictures. Such pictures put a different face on the beautiful and serene battlefields around here.

My great grandfather was a veteran and survivor of that war. He survived because he was in an engineering group from New York State. Don't know if it was the 50th New York engineers as pictured in frame 41 but I'm sure the work was the same. Much better than being cannon fodder.

great pictures of a terrible war that had to be fought. thanks for the link!

For his part in protecting Lincolns life and establishing the Secret Service, he should be considered a hero. For certain other activities, not so much.

Dave

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Chas

Had a distant cousin, same name as me, who fought on the Union side.

Damn Yankee.

:)

Pete

Thanks for the pictures! That war should not have lasted so long.

Saw Matthew Brady's name on a lot of the photos, he was noted for his photos of the war.

I had relatives on both sides. We don't talk about the losers though........:p

Dave

That's one word.

Chas

Thanks for the laugh Chas. LMAO! Coffee even hit my LCD.

Thanks for the information. Brady's biography on wiki was quite interesting. I didn't realize he fielded crews to the battlefields while he oversaw operations from DC. I wondered how he could have captured so many different scenes.

I've read where Brady (or his minions) would rearrange bodies, etc before they took their snaps.

Chas

That had to be disgusting. Look at them, all bloated up with pieces missing, brains hanging out and what-not. Gross.

Dave

Five bucks is five bucks.

Things ain't changed that much, other than where we put the decimal point.

Chas

True dat, Chas. And $5 was some long green in 1865. I think I could stand the smell for the right money.

Dave

I can take most smells including decomposition. The worst was in the summer of 1981. I was on a concrete pad piled with various dead animal remains from the local slaughter houses. Parts stacked as high as they would stack and being loaded by a skiploader onto a conveyor for processing. This in the 110F summer heat in the San Joaquin Valley. It took several days to get the smell out of my nose. IIRC, I think they were making some sort of fertilizer.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/

Here a collection of portraits that's viewable online from the Library of Congress. What struck me was how many of these soldiers looked so young.

Look at our troops now. At least the ones on the front lines.

Chas

Speaking of Harry S. Truman;

"When are old men like us gonna stop sending young men off to die?"

Dave