I didn't see any dead Union soldiers. Propaganda from the very beginning. who would have guessed.

Spent several day trips from Harper's Ferry at this battlefield. My dad was an aspiring LtCol in the US Army, getting ready for War College. We spent our "vacations" at battlefields & working on his mothers farm house, down in the country. I have always had an attraction to U S history and spent my younger yrs in the military bc of this. THANK YOU!!

Krieg ist scheiße.

the hundreds of thousands KIA was because of antiquity of war techniques, charge using Napoleon style was massacre when Gatling gun was available

It’s a wonder that KZbin didn’t censor these images.

The Crimean war was photographed in 1854

O pequeno documentário ficou bom, porque as fotografias dos soldados mortos não foram desfocadas, continuem assim.

Bonsoir à vous tous très beau documentaire sur la guerre de sécession

Interesting that you only show the poor Confederate dead...this was a policy then ...not to show the Union dead. I feel so sad when I see the dead in this terrible war...the families with losses on both sides!

----------------------------------- " Wars, a politicians dream to a solution to something he himself will never fight yet demands it's praise if won! " ------------------------------------------

All Union and Confederate r all resting now 😢 😮

Thank you, KZbin for not blurring out these images like you did with the documentaries of the liberation of NAZI concentration camps. This is real history and needs to be seen. Not sanitized.

Well that was a waste of time

no it wasnt the first war taken with a camera that was william Russell in the Crimean war 1853

History is a must!!! crude and hard to process !!! but necessary!!! for all the gangs with in the USA, this is why the citizens of the USA only have one constitution, one flag, one army, one country, one government. I hope my son gets to learn and understand as much of his countries history so he doesn't make the same mistakes as his fellow citizens from the past. 🙏🙏🙏

He did it at his own expense too

I pray that if any States ever secede again that it will be a peaceful process. I think that the U.S. is more divided now than maybe ever before.

People advocating CW2 have no idea of what they are calling to unleash.

🙏🏿 Rest in peace to all of those men who gave their lives so long ago. I'm grateful to all of them 💯

They were amazing photos for there time.

I look at old photos of any war and think of Socrates quote"only the dead have seen the end of war"

Suspicious war.

Masacre

So sad ...war is ugly😢

Actually Roger Fenton was the first war photographer 10 years before The American Civil War, in the Crimea.

Actually Roger Fenton was the first photographer of 'real' war images, from the Crimean War 10 years before The American Civil War.

“Broken hearts cannot be photographed” Woooow. That hits hard

I read Shelby Footes incredible "Civil War" novel and he stated that the reason that most civil war deceased soldiers on the battle field show their clothing ripped open (shirts ripped open and pants frequently open and pulled slightly down) was because the soldiers did this themselves. They understood the damage the mini balls used in rifles were very distructive to the human body. The soldier frequently wanted to see their wounds after being shot to see if they would survive the wound. So when you view these historical photographs notice the deceased soldiers clothing.

Hey Mr. Runges class

A battle of egos for control and ownership.

1,836 deaths in events

civil war Great Depression book of gettyburg genocide

It's quite fascinating how delusional you people are at the end, saying it was to eradicate slavery, as if Lincoln wasn't quoted saying that if he could save the union with or without ending slavery that he would. It was only made about slavery after the proclamation. And no, I reside north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Can you imagine if photographers still had to follow armies with horse drawn photography "studios" or had to bring a huge wooden contraption around trying to catch an "action" shot? All you really could do was document the aftermath, and we're very lucky someone did. I guess it really does "go to show" there's no glory in war. Indeed it is hell.

Our ancestors were tough sons of bitches

All to free a tribe of ingrates who lacked the intestinal fortitude to free themselves.

If these were the first photographs of war, then what was Roger Fenton doing in the Crimea ten years earlier, finger painting?

They say he took 70 photos but I only see the same few all the time.

This was soo revolutionary at the time. Prior to these photos being published people had heard the chilling accounts of the battles but had never really able to see first hand the true horrors of war. Brady brought those horrors right to the American public. Nowadays we are soo used to seeing graphic images and video coming from war zones like Ukraine and Middle East(thought it doesn't make it any easier to see). But during the Civil War this took war coverage to a whole new level.

Put the real battle flag up you cowards you are trying to erase history it was the southern cross you pathetic people FEDS

Humanity is a cancer.

All of the current group of American “civil war “ asshole/ advocates who are seeking to exploit our present political divisions should be made to study these photos intently. They would quickly realize the actual horror of their misguided fantasies.

So thankful Gardner was doing this, He should be a national hero for his efforts and documentation of this ever important history.

All the Civil War photos are portraits, bodies scattered on the ground, and the aftermath of destroyed buildings. I have yet to find one clear, discernible photograph of an actual battle. Why is this?

"Broken Hearts cannot be Photographed . . . "

Through the entire period, 13hrs divided by 23,000 deaths is about one every two seconds. I learned of Antietam through the Bernard Cornwell Starbuck Chronicles and one day would like to know more.

Nicely done.

He staged the bodies he found. It was all about the shock value

Imagine what photos we will never see since the glass negatives were used on green houses after the war.

Such A Great And Honorable Tribute. Very Well Done 👍 Thanks For Posting!!!