. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . sed by natin-al selection. It tookardor and zest for this particular thing above all others tokeep a man at it in face of the liardships and dishearteninghandicaps. In any case, the work speaks for itself. Over andover one is thrilled by a sympathetic realization that the van-ished man who pointed the camera at some particular scene,must have felt precisely the same pleasure in a telling com-position of landscape, in a lifelike groujiing, in a dramaticglimpse of a bat
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . sed by natin-al selection. It tookardor and zest for this particular thing above all others tokeep a man at it in face of the liardships and dishearteninghandicaps. In any case, the work speaks for itself. Over andover one is thrilled by a sympathetic realization that the van-ished man who pointed the camera at some particular scene,must have felt precisely the same pleasure in a telling com-position of landscape, in a lifelike groujiing, in a dramaticglimpse of a battery in action, in a genre study of a woundedsoldier watched over by a comrade—that Ave feel to-day andthat some seeing eye will resjjond to generations in the is the true immortality of art. And when the emotionsthus aroused center about a struggle which determined thedestinjr of a great nation, the picture that arouses them takesits proper j^lace as an important factor in that heritage of thepast which gives us to-day increased stature over all pastages, just because we add all their experience to our ^~ ^/~V SECOND PREFACE THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD AS HISTORY
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