. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . conquest of England, the Hinidred Years or Thirty YearsWars, even our own seven-year struggle for liberty, withoutany first-hand picture-aids to start the imagination? Takethe comparatively modern Napoleonic wars where, moreover,there is an excej^tional wealth of })aintings, drawings, prints,and lithographs by contemporary men: in most cases the effectis simply one of keen disappointment at the painfully evidentfact that most of these worthy artists never saw a battle ora camp. So the statement that there have been gathered togethe
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . conquest of England, the Hinidred Years or Thirty YearsWars, even our own seven-year struggle for liberty, withoutany first-hand picture-aids to start the imagination? Takethe comparatively modern Napoleonic wars where, moreover,there is an excej^tional wealth of })aintings, drawings, prints,and lithographs by contemporary men: in most cases the effectis simply one of keen disappointment at the painfully evidentfact that most of these worthy artists never saw a battle ora camp. So the statement that there have been gathered togetherthousands of pliotographs of scenes on land and water duringthose momentous years of 1861 to 1865 means that for ourgeneration and all succeeding ones, the Civil War is on a basisdifferent from all others, is practically an open book to oldand young. For when man acliieved the ])hotograph he tookalmost as important a step forward as when he discoveredhow to make fire: he made scenes and events and personalitiesimmortal. The greatest literary genius might wr
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