. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . tomac. The future of the Unioncause looked dark. A critical stateof the disorder had been reached; col-lapse seemed imminent. On the firstday of October, in 1862, PresidentLincoln went to the headquarters ofthe Army of the Potomac and trav-ersed the scenes of action, walkingover the battle-fields of South Moun-tain, Cramptons Gap, and Antietamwith General McClellan. As Lin-coln was bidding good-bye to McClel-lan and a group of officers at Antie-tam on October 4, 1862, this photo-graph was taken. Two da
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . tomac. The future of the Unioncause looked dark. A critical stateof the disorder had been reached; col-lapse seemed imminent. On the firstday of October, in 1862, PresidentLincoln went to the headquarters ofthe Army of the Potomac and trav-ersed the scenes of action, walkingover the battle-fields of South Moun-tain, Cramptons Gap, and Antietamwith General McClellan. As Lin-coln was bidding good-bye to McClel-lan and a group of officers at Antie-tam on October 4, 1862, this photo-graph was taken. Two days laterLincoln ordered McClellan to crossthe Potomac and give battle to theenemy. Misunderstandings followed,and on the fifth of November, Presi-dent Lincoln, with his own hand,wrote the historic order that de-posed the beloved commander of thePotomac, and started controversieswhich are still renewed and vigor-ously argued by army officers andhistorians. It is one of the sad inci-dents of the passing of a hero, whohad endeared himself to his men ashave few generals in the annals of MODERN photographers have experienced somedifficulty in securing proofs from the collodionnegatives, due both to the years that the neg-atives have been neglected and their inexperience withthe peculiar wet-plate process. Mr. Olsen is still work-ing over them and has succeeded in stopping thechemical action that threatened to destroy many of thousand of the negatives are pronounced to be in asgood condition today as on the day they were taken,nearly a half-century ago. Accompanying the collectionis found an occasional negative that seems tohave been made by Alexander Gardner orSamuel Cooley. Gardner was one of the photo-graphers employed by Brady, but he later lefthim and entered into competition. Cooleywas an early photographer who conceived aplan similar to Bradys, but operated on a verylimited scale. Most of his negatives weretaken in South Carolina. From this remarkable collection
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