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Officers, 71st Regiment, New York Infantry
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Mathew B. BradyAmerican Photographer · 1823–1896
All works by this person →> The correspondents of the rebel newspapers are sheer falsifiers, the correspondents of the Northern Journals are not to be depended upon . . . but Brady never misrepresents. > > Though known first as a portraitist, Mathew Brady became the most famous American photographer of the 1800s because of his studio's many Civil War images. Like other enterprising photographers in the mid-1850s, he opened
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- 1861
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- Albumen silver print
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Standing either with thumbs tucked into belts, arms folded across chests, or a hand shoved in the chest of a coat, these Union officers posed for Mathew Brady's camera in the Washington Navy Yard. Across the image's foreground, shadows from a cast-iron fence create a fanciful pattern. President Lincoln had called these volunteers from the New York Infantry into service in June 1861. At the time, many people thought that the conflict between North and South would soon be over, but in fact the Civil War had barely begun and would last until the middle of 1865.
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