. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ■«4 Si. , -^-^x^- I nil ill Co. THE FIELD Here we get an exeellent idea of how the business of army photog-raphy, 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 States Army, and secured photographs at Jackson-\ille, St
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ■«4 Si. , -^-^x^- I nil ill Co. THE FIELD Here we get an exeellent idea of how the business of army photog-raphy, 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 States Army, and secured photographs at Jackson-\ille, St. Augustine, Beaufort,and Charleston during the bom-bardment. Here he is in the actof making an exposure. Thehuge camera and plate-holderseem to ej-es of the present dayfar too cumbersome to makepossible the wonderful defini-tion and beautiful eflfects oflight and shade which charac-terize the war-time negativesthat have come dcmi to usthrough the vicissitudes of halfa century. Here are Cooleystwo means of wagon fitted to carry the DARK
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