Field - Silent Witness: the Civil War Through Photography and Its Photographers

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To my wife, Jane, for her understanding and patience, helpful advice and steadfast support.

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C ONTENTS

Opening Shots, 185961

Pictures may be taken by the thousand

Photography on the Home Front

There is an ambrotypist in camp

Photography in Camp and Barracks

Views of grim-visaged war

Photography at the Front

So great was the demand for maps

Photography in Maps and Documents

We had photographers & visitors aboard

The Camera with the Navy

Closing Shots, 1865

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author is greatly indebted to Bob Zeller, President of the Center for Civil War Photography, for support and advice in the preparation of this study. Others who provided invaluable help include Carol Johnson, Curator of Photography, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC; Josephine Cobb, Chief of the Still Photo section at the National Archives, Washington, DC; Erin Beasley, Digital Image Rights & Reproduction Specialist, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Kelly Kerney, Curator of Archives, Valentine Richmond History Center, Cook Collection; Patricia M. Boulos, Boston Athenum, Boston, Massachusetts; Christopher Morton, Assistant Curator, New York State Military Museum, and Jim Gandy, Librarian/Archivist, New York State Military Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York; Germain Bienvenu, Special Collections Public Services, Louisiana State University Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Malia Ebel, Reference Librarian/Archivist, New Hampshire Historical Society; Nathan Pendlebury, Image Reproduction Administrator, Photography, National Museums Liverpool, UK; Dr. David Bush, Director of The Center for Historic and Military Archaeology, Ohio; The Friends and Descendants of the Johnsons Island Civil War Prison Site; Bill Griffing, Spared & Shared website; Jennifer Ericson, Assistant Curator, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Illinois; Peter Harrington, Curator, Anne S. K. Brown Collection, Brown University, Rhode Island; Tom Liljenquist, Michael J. McAfee, Dan Miller, Jeffrey Kraus, John OBrien, George S. Whiteley IV, Craig Heberton IV, Steve Woolf, Mike Medhurst, David Wynn Vaughan, John Beckendorf, Mark Dunkleman, Ronald S. Coddington, Dan Binder, Bryan Watson, Dan and Brandy Schwab, Matthew Oswalt, Dr. James W. Milgram, Neill Rose, Peter Searle, Terry Burnett, David Quattlebaum, Francois Xavier Prevet, and Dominic Serrano.