Just click on the first picture and click on the lower right arrow to smoothly go through.


These are 288 great pictures taken over 150 years ago! If you click on a specific picture it will show up enlarged. After you are finished viewing it, click on the x in the lower right hand corner and you will be returned to the balance of pictures. If you just click on the picture you will be returned to the web site and have to start over.

Glass
Plate Photos From Civil War.
These pictures are very profound. It
is fortunate that these photos have survived.
Popular during the war, they lost their appeal afterwards and so many were sold for the glass. Many used in green houses. Over the years the sun caused the images to disappear.
These are pretty amazing considering they were taken over 150
years ago:

A compendium of photos from era of the War Between
the States.

CLICK
BELOW:

http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilW......dex.html

Fascinating stuff, Ralph. Thanks for posting.

Fascinating but also very sad. I mean, I find it hard to think what a Civil War is like.

Thanks, really interesting. It made me realize that I didn't know what the status of slavery was in Washington DC in the 1860s.


Spoiler:














It was abolished in 1862 in DC, nine months before the Emancipation Proclamation, but after, of course, the Civil War had begun. Before then, it was a hub for the slave trade.

150 years ago, Americans killed other Americans on battlefields, because....

The North's expansionist agression.