The Photographic History of the Civil War

by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Mathew Brady

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First edition

The grandfather of pictorial histories, this mammoth work is a necessary part of any Civil War library. The work contains 3,389 images that constitute an important source on the war's appearance—its battlefields, common soldiers, officers, forts, diseases, camp scenes, army movements, and material. -Eicher, The Civil War in Books 771 FIRST EDITIONS OF MILLER’S CELEBRATED PHOTO-DOCUMENTARY OF THE CIVIL WAR. AN EXCEPTIONAL SET IN THE ORIGINAL WOODEN SHIPPING

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