Truly fortunate that so many of these Civil War photographs have survived. 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 so many were sold for the glass.. Many used in green houses. Over the years the sun caused the images to disappear.

Whether you like history or not...These are pretty amazing considering they were taken up to 145 years ago: A compendium of photos from the Civil War era. Run the cursor over the photograph and the picture caption will pop up. Click photo to enlarge.

Use your 'Back Arrow' in upper left of screen to return to main page after viewing an enlarged picture. It seems to work better than using the "BACK" button at the bottom of the page.

"Original Civil War Pictures"

http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivil ... index.html


The Old Trinity Church with the United States Capitol Dome under construction behind it.

those are cool.First column,6 pics down,the stone house,I drew that for a class project in elementary school.My mom still had it till Hurricane ruined it a couple yrs ago.I grew up in manassas,it wasn't far from my house.I remember a big statue of Stonewall Jackson on his horse at the cemetary.We used to play in Bull Run Creek,always hoped to find something from the civil war but never did.

I was a photographer in HS and am amazed at the detail, and depth of field these have! I used to develop black and white film and make my own prints! Another lost trade (Saddlery) from my past!

I was amazed at the depth some of the pictures have how come we don't see that with todays cameras or at least the pictures I take lol

because they are all automatic... the depth of field is where things are focased from foreground to back ground, and is done by adjusting the f stop and other stuff... hard to do on a point and shoot camera!

pretty cool. I have always been a photography nut.

Very cool pics. The Old Trinity picture almost looks like a drawing though.