Showing posts with label Mathew Brady. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mathew Brady. Show all posts

8/15/11

Civil War Photos by Mathew Brady


Mathew Brady (1822 - 1896) is the father of photojournalism. With his team of photographers Civil War is the most well documented war in it's time. 


Above photo is one of his Photographic Wagon from 1855. (photo by Roger Fenton)

9th New York Militia, June 1861

A company of the 6th Maine Infantry on parade after the battle of Fredericksburg, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

African American Soldiers Training

Battery D, 2nd U.S. Artillery, at Fredericksburg, VA, 1863

Battle of Gettysburg

Camp of the 44th New York Infantry near Alexandria, VA, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

Camp scene showing winter huts and corduroy roads, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

Cavalry at rappahannock

Confederate dead behind a stone wall at Fredericksburg, VA, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

Fairfax Station

General William Tecumseh Sherman on Horseback

General Winfield Scott

Hanover Junction showing what is thought to be Lincoln's train, 1863





1862

1862

Mathew Brady with General Burnside. Photograph believed to have been taken at 9th Corps headquarters, Cold Harbor

One of the only known images of Abraham Lincoln at the November 1863 dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery by Mathew Brady's team

Dead At Antietam


Soldier guarding arsenal Washington DC by, 1862

Dead At Antietam

Union Army Encampment Outside Petersburg, Virginia, c. 1864

Union Soldiers, 1864

View in Wilderness, VA, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

Wounded soldiers under trees, Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, after the battle of Spotsylvania, 1864

Victory Parade on Pennsylvania Ave., 1865


The four condemned conspirators in the Lincoln Assassination await death on the gallows, July 7, 1865

6/29/11

Photoshop in 1865 by Mathew Brady

Original photo of Civil War Generals, c. 1865

Standing from left: Oliver Otis Howard, William Babcock Hazen, Jefferson Columbus Davis and Joseph Anthony Mower. 
Seated, from left - John Alexander Logan, Sherman, and Henry Warner Slocum


Matthew Brady managed to change the background and added Francis P. Blair sitting to the right.

For his time this is pretty amazing.