Download or read book Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States (Classic Reprint) written by Mathew B. Brady and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States The existence of this collection is unknown by the public at large. Even while this book has been in pre paration eminent photographers have pronounced it im possible, declaring that photography was not sufficiently advanced at that period to prove of such practical use in War. Distinguished veterans of the Civil War have informed me that they knew positively that there were no cameras in the wake of the army. This incredulity of men in a position to know the truth enhances the value of the collection inasmuch that its genuineness is officially proven by the testimony of those who saw the pictures taken, by the personal statement of the man who took them, and by the Government Records. For forty-two years the original negatives have been in storage, secreted from public view, except as an occasional proof is drawn for some special use. How these negatives came to be taken under most hazardous conditions in the storm and stress of a War that threatened to change the entire history of the world is itself an interesting historical ia eident. Moreover, it is one of the tragedies of genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.