The Photographic History of the Civil War, 10 vol. set, pics, Books on CD

All books are in PDF format, on one carefully formatted CD, for easy searching and printing.

INCLUDED:

Volume 1 -  The Opening Battles. (375 pages)
Volume 2 -  Two Years of Grim War. (362 pages)
Volume 3 -  The Decisive Battles. (359 pages)
Volume 4 -  The Cavalry. (343 pages)
Volume 5 -  Forts and Artillery. (329 pages)
Volume 6 -  The Navies. (326 pages)
Volume 7 -  Prisons and Hospitals. (354 pages)
Volume 8 -  Soldier Life, Secret Service.  (386 pages)
Volume 9 -  Poetry and Eloquence of Blue and Gray. (359 pages)
Volume 10 - Armies and Leaders. (362 pages)

Introduction, by President William Howard Taft:

We have reached a point in this country when we can look back, not without love, not without intense pride, but without partisan passion, to the events of the Civil War. We have reached a point, I am glad to say, when the North can admire to the full the heroes of the South, and the South admire to the full the heroes of the North. There is a monument in Quebec that always commended itself to me - a monument to commemorate the battle of the Plains of Abraham. On one face of that beautiful structure is the name of Montcalm, and on the opposite side the name of Wolfe. That always seemed to me to be the acme of what we ought to reach in this country; and I am glad to say that in my own alma mater, Yale, we have established an association for the purpose of erecting within her academic precincts a memorial not to the Northern Yale men who died, nor to the Southern Yale men who died; but to the Yale men who died in the Civil War.

The Civil War is one of the earliest wars in mankind that was able to be captured through photographs.  This gives us a forever record of what happened for future generations.  No longer could wars be sugar coated by partisan journalists towards a specific view, rather the photos give us a full view and record of what actually happened.  This marvelous collection, published around 50 years after the conclusion of the Civil War, attempts to document the war through photos.  Included in PDF format on CD, is the full 10 volume set in its entirety.

Also, these 4 bonus books are included, with hundreds of additional photos:

1.The Civil War Through The Camera - 1912, 608 pages, by Henry William Elson and R. Iguana

Hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history. Also contains records of the War Between the States By General Marcus J. Wright. General Wright was a confederate fighting leader. Then for many years he was a faithful servant of our united nation, collecting the scattered Confederate documents for the monumental Government "Official Record." In the following pages he tells how the actual Civil War photographs now brought to light are "records" invaluable to students of the immense conflict.

 

  2. Pleasants Photograph Album by Frances Pleasants -  1865, 56 pages, by Frances Pleasants
 

Frances Pleasants taught wounded soldiers at the Army  Hospital in Germantown, PA during the Civil War. This photo album was presented to her by her patients, it contains photographs of them as well as other Civil War images.  You can see in many of the photos, many wounded soldiers have missing limbs.


3. Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States -  1907, by Mathew B Brady and Alexander Gardner, 135 pages.

Rare reproductions from photographs selected from seven thousand original negatives taken under most hazardous conditions in the midst of one of the most terrific conflicts of men that the world has ever known, and in the earliest days of photography—these negatives have been in storage vaults for more than forty years prior to being published in this book.


4. The Blue and the Gray, or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy - 1898, 420 pages, by A.R White.

A novel on the civil war told through the eyes of a boy sent to war, told from a northern point of view.  From the author's preface:  The scenes of the war, related by a boy who followed the flag from the beginning to the end of the war, must carry with them a sense of accuracy, for they are the recollections of actual service. Those books which have been written upon the war have, with very few exceptions, been penned from the standpoint of mature opinions and experiences. In this work the views and struggles of a boy who went into the army, from an honest desire to do right, are portrayed. To fight was abhorrent to his nature, but there was a call for men who were willing to defend the institutions of his beloved land. And that defense was only possible through bloodshed and conflict. Tenderly instructed by a loving and gentle mother, whose early home was in the South, it was almost a wrenching of her cherished opinions, to give him up to fight against her kindred. But her boy did not enter the contest with a thought of conquering his fellow-beings, but as a duty which, though painful, must be performed. How that dear mother gave him to his country, how he marched, and fought, and endured hardships, are here set forth in the colors of truth, for it is a true story.