. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Here we get an excellent idea of how the business of army pliotog-rapliy, invented by Brady and first exemphfied by him at BullRun, had become organized toward the close of the war. In thelower picture we see the outfit with which Samuel A. Cooley fol-lowed the fortunes of the campaigners, and recorded for all timethe stirring events aroimd Savannah at the completion of theMarch to the Sea. Cooley was attached to the Tenth Corps,United States Army, and secured photogr
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Here we get an excellent idea of how the business of army pliotog-rapliy, invented by Brady and first exemphfied by him at BullRun, had become organized toward the close of the war. In thelower picture we see the outfit with which Samuel A. Cooley fol-lowed the fortunes of the campaigners, and recorded for all timethe stirring events aroimd Savannah at the completion of theMarch to the Sea. Cooley was attached to the Tenth Corps,United States Army, and secured photographs at Jackson-\ille. St. .\ugustine, Beaufort,and Charleston during the bom-bardment. Here he is in the actof making an exposure. Tin-huge camera and plate-holderseem to eyes of the present dayfar too cumbersome to makepossible the wonderful defini-tion and beautiful effects oflight and shade which charac-terize the war-time negativesthat have come down to usthrough the vicissitudes of halfa century. Here are Coolerstwo means of transportation. The wagon fitted to carry the THE CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS IMPEDIMENTA [a-31. supply of chemicals, glass plates, and the precious finished negativesincludes a compartment for more leisurely developing. The litMedark-room buggy to the left was used upon occasions when it wasnecessary for the army photographer to proceed in light marchingorder. In the smaller picture we see again the light-proof devel-oping tent in action before the ramparts of Fort view is of the exterior of the fort fronting the SavannahRiver. .\ few days before the Confederate guns had frowned darkly from the parapet atShermans bummers, whocould see the smoke of theFederal gunboats waiting towelcome them just Sherman looking proudly(in, the footsore and himgrysoldiers rushed forward to theattack, and the Stars andStripes were soon floating over this vast barrier between themand the sea. The next morning,Christmas Day, 1864, the gun-boats and
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