For Civil War History Buffs

With my hometown of Vicksburg, MS, being a Civil Was town, I wanted to share with you a site that my cousin in Memphis sent to me recently.  I know you civil war history buffs would really love these.

It is fortunate that these photos have survived.  Most probably a million wet plate photos were made during the civil war on glass plate.  Popular during the war, they lost their appeal afterwards and many were sold for the glass. Many were used in green houses.  Over the years the sun caused the images to disappear.

These are pretty amazing considering they were taken up to 150 years ago:  A compendium of photos from era of the War Between the States.  Run the cursor over the photograph and the picture caption will pop up. Click photo to enlarge and to read the caption.  Then click the back button to review another picture.

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