The American civil war then and now

[Mopar Nut]

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2015/jun/22/american-civil-war-photography-interactive

[polywideblock]

very cool      , to someone from overseas that has only watched doco's this is gold 

[JB400]

 Pretty cool site.  Thanks for sharing 

[DeltaV]

Thanks for sharing

[RallyeMike]

The photos with the oak tree is just incredible and pretty sobering.

[Mike DC]

The Civil War was the first big ugly war to see much photography.  All the pics of corpses being shown back in the cities made a huge impact on the northern public.  They were far away from the war & not old enough to recall previous wars.


That whole war was a perfect-storm epic clusterf*ck of human carnage.   The timing of factors was brutally bad.  Industrial weapons + pre-industrial military tactics + officers without real experience + pre-industrial medical care for the wounded + huge numbers of people & resources.     

[wingcar]

Thanks for posting....I like the way they did the before and today button.......interest pictures to say the least

[el dub]

Interesting..... good post

[dyslexic teddybear]

Very interesting

Actually been to Fort Sumter.

Thanks for posting.

[chargermick]

That was fantastic. Thanks for sharing.