civil war anniversary

[bigrun]

Got this email today..great collection of photos...


Subject: If You Have An Interest In The American Civil War You Will Want To View and Save This Website



What an unbelievable website.
Please read the instructions before viewing...These pictures are very profound. It is fortunate that these photos have survived. Most probably a million wet plate photos were made during the civil war on glass plate.

Popular during the war, they lost their appeal afterwards and so many were sold for the glass. Many used in green houses. Over the years the sun caused the images to disappear.

These are pretty amazing considering they were taken over to 150 years ago: A compendium of photos from era of the War Between the States.
Run the cursor over the photograph and the picture caption will pop up.

Click photo to enlarge and to read the rest of the caption.
Click here please
http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCi...ls2/index.html

[Danzig]

the 150th anniversary of another tragedy tied to the war is on the 27th of this month...the sinking of the ss sultana near memphis, severely overloaded with union wounded and former pow's trying to get home. the boat could carry about 400, she had around 2100 souls aboard when her boilers exploded. they never got an exact death toll, but it's thought to be over 1700 lost.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Got this email today..great collection of photos...


Subject: If You Have An Interest In The American Civil War You Will Want To View and Save This Website



What an unbelievable website.
Please read the instructions before viewing...These pictures are very profound. It is fortunate that these photos have survived. Most probably a million wet plate photos were made during the civil war on glass plate.

Popular during the war, they lost their appeal afterwards and so many were sold for the glass. Many used in green houses. Over the years the sun caused the images to disappear.

These are pretty amazing considering they were taken over to 150 years ago: A compendium of photos from era of the War Between the States.
Run the cursor over the photograph and the picture caption will pop up.

Click photo to enlarge and to read the rest of the caption.
Click here please
http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCi...ls2/index.html

thanks for posting.
the picture of the bones at cold harbor--i have no doubt that if you started poking around in the wilderness, you'd find a lot of bones.