The Image of War: 1861-1865

Marching with the American armies were photographers capturing the shadows of the passing legions.

As 1863 marched on to 1864, the armies and the peoples making Civil War trod even closer to the final resolution.

Over 4,000 photographs about the Civil War.

While the soldiers and guns wounded and killed, the cameras captured them all.

The cameras went to work when the fighting was over, looking at the long, difficult struggle of the country as the sections reunited.

The Confederate States were a struggling nation. Its war with the Union was not only for victory or defeat but for survival.