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Mathew B Brady and many of the decade's best photographers created the photographs in this collection. There are detailed portraits of notable men of the era, as well as photos of soldiers, living and dead, battlefields, scarred landscapes, and cities burned and bombed by invading troops. They portray the horrors of war and images of life in camp. They represent photojournalism in its infancy and present us with real-life interpretations of our nation at war with itself. Continue…

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Annotation added: Abraham Lincoln, 16 president. why are so many jphots of Lincoln and famous people of the day listed as "blanK" just becuase brady didn't Id them, footnotes has to know who they are. or is no one actually lookingat these docs and pics??

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Spotlight added: Abraham Lincoln's fist

Annotation added: Lafayette C. Baker (U.S. Army Secret Service)

Annotation added: Prince Polignac a prince of the house of Bourbon and a Polish general, who was a major general in the army of the Confederate States of America

Annotation added: Abraham Lincoln, 16 president. why are so many jphots of Lincoln and famous people of the day listed as "blanK" just becuase brady didn't Id them, footnotes has to know who they are. or is no one actually lookingat these docs and pics??

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Missing Air Crew Reports, WWII

Pennsylvania Archives

Civil War "Widows' Pensions"

Revolutionary War Service Records

Census - US Federal 1930

WWII US Air Force Photos

Civil War and Later Veterans Pension Index

Census - US Federal 1860

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Annotation added: Prince Polignac a prince of the house of Bourbon and a Polish general, who was a major general in the army of the Confederate States of America

Annotation added: Abraham Lincoln, 16 president. why are so many jphots of Lincoln and famous people of the day listed as "blanK" just becuase brady didn't Id them, footnotes has to know who they are. or is no one actually lookingat these docs and pics??

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