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Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War Author:Alexander Gardner Second only to Mathew Brady, as the foremost early American photographer, was Alexander Gardner, the one-time manager of Brady's Washington salon and Brady's chief photographer in the field during the early days of the Civil War. — Gardner --- who later photographed the War independently -- often managed Brady's famous horse-drawn pho... more »tographic laboratory and took many of the pictures which used to be credited to Brady. Gardner accompanied the Union troops on their marches, their camps and bivouacs, their battles, and on the retreats during the early days of the War.
In 1866, Alexander Gardner published a very ambitious, two-volume work which contained prints of 100 photographs he had taken in the field. A list of them reads like a roster of great events and great men. Gardner's photographs are among the greatest war pictures ever taken and are also among the most prized records of American History.
This is an unabridged reprint of the 1866 edition, with 100 photographs in the original size.« less