On October 2, 1862, President Lincoln met with General George McClellan, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, to urge a stepped up attack on Robert E. Lee’s Southern soldiers.
In 1865, a single photograph was taken during the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth. Where is it now?
The administration, led by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, ordered that a single photograph be taken of Booth’s corpse, says Bob Zeller, president of the Center for Civil War Photography. On April 27, 1865, many experts agree, famed Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner and his assistant Timothy O’Sullivan Took the picture.
It hasn’t been seen since, and its whereabouts are unknown.
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The Library of Congress has published a special collection of 3D photographs commemorating the Civil War.
Group of officers during Civil War. Culpeper, 1863.
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After capturing the horrors of the Civil War for Mathew Brady’s studio, 19th century photographer Timothy H. O’Sullivan uncovered the beauty of the great expanses of the American west.
Sharp Shooter at Devil’s Den
In order to illustrate the horrors of the American Civil War to the American people; the photographer who took this picture dragged this young confederate soldiers body from one location to another and posed him as though he had just been killed. Stripped of his own humanity and used a prop in an effort to force the public to find its humanity.
No rest for the weary; this is the horror of war.
