The civil war through the camera. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Henry William Elson   -  Henry William Elson, 2014  - 

The Civil War Through the Camera by Henry William Elson (1857-1935). Hundreds of Vivid Photographs actually Taken in Civil War Times. Includes Sixteen Reproductions in Color of Famous War Paintings. A Complete Illustrated History of the Civil War. first published in 16 booklets, complete from 1861 to 1865. From bombardment of Fort Sumter to the Union Cavalry's triumphant victory parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, here is America's bloodiest and most dramatic struggle captured for eternity in hundreds of photographs and penetrating commentary. No historical narrative could, on its own, convey the grim bitterness and waste of this divisive war more graphically than these early photographs.