American Era History Book Review: The Civil War Through The Camera
not have done better.
This book consists of about 260 textual pages, and 317 photographs and images, and the sixteen color prints.
Comments:
Do not be misled by the title; this is not a picture book, though it is loaded with hundreds of fascinating photographs. Published almost 50 years after the end of the Civil War, the author created a comprehensive history of the war with compelling textual style and content, and hundreds of actual photographs.
The author, Henry Elson, had plenty of factual records to research, and digest, and he had the added advantage of living and writing in an era when the Civil War was still part of living history in the minds of many people, including war veterans from both sides.
This is a complete story of the Civil War, from beginning, to end, with all the
