. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . A- — X*; .-_. r--j- A STRIKING WAR PHOTOGRAPH OF 63 The introduction on pa^e .50, Photographing the Civil War, remarks on the genius required to recordsuch vivid action liy camera in the days of 61. The use of the instrument had not then become pastime;it was a pioneer science, requiring absohite knowledge, training, and experience. Only experts like the menthat Brady trained could do such work as this. There were no lightning shutters, no automatic or universalfocus.
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . A- — X*; .-_. r--j- A STRIKING WAR PHOTOGRAPH OF 63 The introduction on pa^e .50, Photographing the Civil War, remarks on the genius required to recordsuch vivid action liy camera in the days of 61. The use of the instrument had not then become pastime;it was a pioneer science, requiring absohite knowledge, training, and experience. Only experts like the menthat Brady 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 portraj such scenes of action. There are many who never knew that photography was [S8J. Copyriyht by Review oj Ucvicws Co, ARTILLERY REGULARS BEFORE CHANCELLORSVILLE possible in the Civil War. Yet look at this Union battery, taken by the shore of the Rappahannock, justbefore the battle of Chancellorsville. Action, movement, portraiture are shown. We can hear the officerstanding in front giving his orders; his figure leaning slightly forward is tense with spoken words of com-mand. The cannoneers, resting or ramming home the charges, are magnificent types of the men whomade the Army of the Potomac—the army doomed to suffer, a few days after this picture was taken, its crush-ing repulse by the famous flanking charge of Stonewall Jackson; yet the army which kept faith andultimately became invincible in the greatest civil war of history. Within sixty days after the Chancellors-ville defeat the troops engaged won a signal triumph over the self-same opponents at Gettysburg.
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