first edition
1911 · New York
by Miller, Francis Trevelyan; Lanier, Robert S.
New York: Review of Review Co, 1911. First printing. Very good plus.. First edition of this towering landmark of Civil War history, "the grandfather of pictorial histories" (Eicher) with nearly 3400 photographs of battlefields, artillery, enlisted personnel and officers, prisons, hospitals, camps, and maps, with text by veterans. While images from the Mexican-American War (1846-48) and the Crimean War (1853-56) exist, no conflict prior to the American Civil War was so extensively captured via the new medium of photography. Photographers in both the North and the South — including Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, George S. Cook, McPherson (truncated)