. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . gatives became his property. Army officers who knew of the existence of the neg-atives urged the Government to publish them as a partof the Official Records of the War. The Governmentstated in reply: The photographic views of the Warshowing the battlefields, military divisions, fortifications,etc., are among the most authentic and valuable recordsof the Rebellion. The preservation of these interestingrecords of the War is too important to be intrusted inglass plates so easily destroyed by accident or d
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . gatives became his property. Army officers who knew of the existence of the neg-atives urged the Government to publish them as a partof the Official Records of the War. The Governmentstated in reply: The photographic views of the Warshowing the battlefields, military divisions, fortifications,etc., are among the most authentic and valuable recordsof the Rebellion. The preservation of these interestingrecords of the War is too important to be intrusted inglass plates so easily destroyed by accident or design andno more effective means than printing can be devised tosave them from destruction. While a few proofs were taken for the purpose ot official records, the public stillremained unacquainted with the scenes so graphicallypreserved. One who is acquainted with the conditionssays : From different sources verbal and unofficial, itwas learned that quite a number of the negatives werebroken through careless handling by the employees ofthe War Department. The negatives were transferred to. BRADYS WHAT IS IT? IN THE CIVIL WARThe Photographers Headquarters at Cold Harbor, Virginia, in 1862,wrere he had taken refuge to prepare his paraphernalia for a longand hazardous journey—It was with much difficulty that the delicate glassnegatives were protected from breakage on these daring rides throughforests and heldsard proofs were taken at the first opportunity that offered the War Records Office and placed under the careful super-vision of Colonel R. N. Scott. Twentv-five years ago, in 1882, Bierstadt, a chemist,informed the Government: The breakableness of theglass and the fugitive character of photograph chemicalswill in short time obliterate all traces of the scenes theserepresent. Unless they are reproduced in some permanent form they will soon be lost. Fifty-two negatives weresent to him and he reproduced six of these by a photo-graphic mechanical process. The Government, however
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