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Showing posts with label Mathew Brady. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Mathew Brady. Show all posts

Friday, July 09, 2021

Interview: Laura DeMarco, 'Lost Civil War' author. Plus, a list!

Like this blog on Facebook | Follow me on Twitter In a Zoom chat, author Laura DeMarco and I talked about her new book, Lost Civil War: ...

Sunday, April 25, 2021

Gettysburg Then & Now: Forbes Rock (and a look at God Tree)

THEN: In this cropped version of Mathew Brady's photo of "Forbes Rock," his assistant sits on a boulder in the foreground. ( ...

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Grand Review of Union Army 'positively beggars description'

(Mathew Brady | Library of Congress) A cropped version of a lithograph showing presidential viewing stand in front of White House. ...

Thursday, May 05, 2016

Then & Now: Damaged houses in war-torn Fredericksburg

Click here for the mega-Then & Now experience for desktop, tablet On a "Then & Now" mission during my Civil War Powe...

Monday, September 16, 2013

Antietam: Alexander Gardner's images of death

Enlargement of Alexander Gardner image of Rebel soldiers gathered for burial at Battle of Antietam. (Library of Congress collection) (C...

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John Banks: John Banks is author of A Civil War Road Trip Of A Lifetime, Connecticut Yankees at Antietam and Hidden History of Connecticut Union Soldiers. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Civil War Times, Civil War Monitor, Civil War News, America's Civil War and Military Images. Banks, who attended Mount Lebanon (Pa.) High School, graduated from West Virginia University (B.A. in journalism). A longtime journalist (The Dallas Morning News, ESPN, The History Channel), he is secretary-treasurer of The Center for Civil War Photography.

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