Civil War Photos: It is fortunate that these 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 were used in green houses. Over the years the sun caused the images to disappear. These are pretty amazing considering they were taken up 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 caption. Then click the back button to review another picture
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http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html
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Butch Bridge's "This 'n That" for this week can be seen on:
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http://www.oklahomahistory.net/newsletters/TT755.htm
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com