This is the most important book published at the end of the Civil War. Published in 1866, the original edition contained 100 original photographs each accompanied by text from the editor Alexander Gardner in two large format volumes.
Now, Delano Greenidge Editions has republished the book in a single volume with high quality reproductions of the photographs with the original text.
This book is a compilation of photographs and text made during the Civil War: Appomattox; Antietam; Army of Northern Virginia; Army of the Potomac; Arsenal at Richmond; General Augur; General Beauregard; Belle Isle; General Breckenridge; John Brown; Bull Run; General Butler; Centreville, Virginia; Colored Brigade; President Jefferson Davis; Fifth Corps (Army of the Potomac; Fort Fisher, North Carolina; First Masschusetts Light Battery; General Ulysses S. Grant; Guerrillas; General Hancock; Harper's Ferry; General Hooker; President Abraham Lincoln; General Robert E. Lee; Mortar Dictator; Manassas Junction; Ninth Army Corps; Norfolk Navy Yard; General Reynolds; Orange and Alexandria Railroad; Pamunkey River, Virginia; Pontoon bridges; Quaker guns; Richmond, Virginia; Redoubts, lunettes, and rifle-pits; General Stonewall Jackson; Slave pens; Sanitary Commission; Telegraph; Veteran Bermaont Brigade; Zoaves.