Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

One hundred of the greatest war pictures ever taken, this collection is also a dramatic record of American history. Union troops in battle, Lincoln at Antietam, the ruins of Richmond, Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, more.

Second only to Mathew Brady as the foremost early American photographer was Alexander Gardner, the one-time manager of Brady’s Washington salon and Brady’s chief photographer in the field during the early days of the Civil War. Indeed, Gardner—who later photographed t…