. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . move the surplus silver) with solution of cyanide of potassium; andthen a final washing, drying, and varnishing. The surface (wet ordry), unlike a dry plate, could not be touched. I was all through thewar from 1861-65, in the Ninety-third New York regiment, whosepictures you have given. I recognized quite a number of the old com-rades. You have also in your collection a negative of each companyof that regiment. Fortunately the picture men occasionally immortalizedeach
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . move the surplus silver) with solution of cyanide of potassium; andthen a final washing, drying, and varnishing. The surface (wet ordry), unlike a dry plate, could not be touched. I was all through thewar from 1861-65, in the Ninety-third New York regiment, whosepictures you have given. I recognized quite a number of the old com-rades. You have also in your collection a negative of each companyof that regiment. Fortunately the picture men occasionally immortalizedeach other as well as the combatants, so that we have a num-ber of intimate glimpses of their life and methods. In onethe waffon, chemicals and camera are in the very trenches atAtlanta, and they tell more than pages of description. But,naturally, they cannot show the arduous labor, the narrowescapes, the omnipresent obstacles which could be overcomeonly by the keenest ardor and determination. The epic of thewar-photographer is still to be written. It wovdd comparefavorably with the story of many battles. And it does not [50]. Copyritjht by Review of Reviews Co. CAMP LIFE OF THE INVADING ARMY This picture preserves for us the resplendent aspect of the camp of McClellans Army of the Potomac inthe spring of 1862. On his march from Yorktown toward Richmond, McCleilan advanced his supply basefrom Cumberland Landing to White House on the Pamunkey. The barren fields on the bank of the riverwere converted as if by magic into an immense city of tents stretching away as far as the eye could see,while mirrored in the river lay the immense fleet of transports con^oyed up by gunboats from FortressMonroe. Here we see but a small section of this inspiring view. In the foreground, around the mud-spatteredforge, the blankets and knapsacks of the farriers have been thrown carelessly on the ground. Farther on thepatient army mules are tethered around the wagons. In the background, before the camp of
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