Galleries 21
Collections 141
Groups 22
It used to be that only the wealthy could afford to have a portrait of themselves or their family made. By 1862, Oliver Wendell Holmes noted photography has become, "the social currency, the green-backs of civilization."

The affordability of photographs resulted in soldiers taking pictures wearing their uniforms, with their loved ones, and in the case of cavalry officers - with their horses.


Today, the photographic history of the war is seen more from the camera lens of Northern photographers than Southern.

At the start of the war, it was not uncommon for the only photographer in a small southern town to close up shop and enlist. As the war continued, chemicals needed to create and produce images were not readily available in the South. Lastly, some of the photographs that were produced were destroyed as collateral damage of the war.

All of these images are actual photographs taken during the Civil War and then carefully restored and colored to bring new life to these timeless images. These images are not re-enactments or recreations.

2D - Images

Galleries 3
Collections 49
Modified 9-Jan-13
620 photos
2D - Images

3D - Stereo Images

Galleries 6
Collections 47
Modified 23-Apr-14
241 photos
3D - Stereo Images

Period Prints

Visitors 401
5 photos
Created 13-Nov-14
Modified 13-Nov-14
Period Prints

Framed Images

Visitors 178
31 photos
Created 15-Sep-15
Modified 15-Sep-15
Framed Images

Civil War Specialty items

Visitors 61
1 photos
Created 24-May-18
Modified 24-May-18
Civil War Specialty items