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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 1: Photographing the Civil War (search)
meet here in his persistent pushing forward upon Richmond, the cameraists were engaged in fixing, washing, and storing their negatives. At last the besiegers were in Charleston, and the Union photographers for the first time were securing views of the position. Brady's headquarters with his What is it? preparing for the strenuous work involved in the oncoming battle. Before Second Bull Run Washing the negatives At work in Sumter, April, 1865 Brady's what is it? at Culpeper, Virginia on Broadway and was well launched upon the new trade of furnishing daguerreotype portraits to all comers. He was successful from the start; in 1851 his work took a prize at the London World's Fair; about the same time he opened an office in Washington; in the fifties he brought over Alexander Gardner, an expert in the new revolutionary wet-plate process, which gave a negative furnishing many prints instead of one unduplicatable original; and in the twenty years between his start an