Photography and the Civil War

Portrait of Pvt. William T. Carter (2nd from right in white collar) and group of 3rd Maryland Infantry
When the American Civil War began in 1861, photography was a relatively new art. In 1827, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce had developed the first fixed image photograph; by the 1850s, the daguerreotype, a photography method invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé [...]