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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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nd partisan arguments havebeen set aside in the universal and hearty effort of all concerned to fulfil the obliga-tions of this work. I ask further ;)rivilege to extend my gratitude to my personal assist-ants, Mr. Walter R. Bickford, Mr. Arthur Forrest Burns, and ^Nlr. Wallace H. Miller. And now, as we stand to-day, fellowmen in the great republic that is carrying thetorch in the foreraiiks of the worlds civilization, let us clasp hands across the long-goneyears as reunited Americans. I can close these introductory words with no nobler tributethan those of the mighty warriors who led the great armies to battle. It was GeneralRobert E. Lee who, after the war, gave this advice to a Virginia mother, Abandon allthese animosities and make your sons Americans, and General Ulysses S. Grant, whoseappeal to his countrymen must always be an admonition against war: Let us havepeace. FRANCIS TREVELYAX MILLER, Ed itor-in-Ch ief. Hartford, Connecticut,Fiftieth AnniversaryLincolns Inauguration. (19)
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A STRIKING WAR PHOTOGRAPH OF 63 The introduction on page 30, Photographing the Civil War, remarks on the genius required to recordsuch vivid action by camera in the days of 61. The use of the instrument had not then become pastime;it was a pioneer science, requiring absolute knowledge, training, and experience. Only experts like the menthat Brad) trained could do .such work as this. There were no lightning shutters, no automatic or universalfocus. In positions of danger and at times when speed and accuracy were required, there was the delicacyof the old-fashioned wet plate to consider, with all its drawbacks. No wonder people were surprised thatpictures such as this exist; they had grown used to the old woodcut and the often mutilated attempts ofpen and pencil to portray such scenes of action. There are many who never knew that photography was

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