Mathew Brady's Photography During The Civil War

James Gillespie Birney was born on february 4, 1792 and was an abolitionist. He was born and raised in Danville, Kentucky along with his siblings. As he was growing up, he had no father figure and he lost his mother when he was barely growing. He and his two sisters had to live with their aunt. He started studying at age eleven and was sent to Transylvania University. After 2 years, he returned and continued his studies back in Danville.

Mathew Brady’s influence on the civil war was very heavy on society. This is one of the main reasons he is so well known. His main focuses on the photos of the civil war were thousands of images of camp life, battlefields, and portraits of famous citizens during the war. When the war broke out he organized a team and wanted to create a comprehensive photo documentation of the war. He planned to follow the soldiers on the field to capture the major events in the civil war. This was all at his own expense. Together with his constructed team of photographers they produced more than 10,000 images of the conflict, and brought the gruesome realities of warfare home to the American public. Although Brady was very successful with his photographs and studios he had a dream to photograph the war that was taking place. Brady's most famous exhibition from the war was entitled "The Dead at Antietam," which featured numerous photographs of corpses on the battlefield and brought the war home to the American people in a way not previously seen. He then ventures to photograph and travel the events of the war. According to the information on the Civil War Organization page, “By the end of the war Brady had accumulated serious debt in hopes of selling his collection to the New York Historical Society; however, the deal fell through. Fortunately for the American

In the story “The War Photo No One Would Publish” by Torie Rose DeGhett the photographer (Kenneth Jarecke) takes gruesome photographs of deceased war victims. In 1991, the photo was taken of an Iraqi soldier struggling to pull himself out of a burning vehicle. The fire “incarcerated him to ash and blackened bone” (The War Photo No One Would Publish 1). After taking the photo, Jarecke wanted the image to be published but, due to its unsightly nature no one would publish it. DeGhett believed that this photo should be published he is trying to convince you as to why. The reason this shall not be posted is this soldier is somebody's family member; they do not want to see that image disseminated to the public.

It was 1861, and after a divisive presidential election, the nation was tearing itself apart. Eight states had been toran from the Union. And now, Isaac Murphy faced a choice. On May 1861, the Arkansas Secession Convention had reconvened after the battle at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. After the fall of the Union base, President Abraham Lincoln called for troops from the still-loyal states to defend the Union. For the states of the Upper South, this was too much. Shortly after Lincoln’s announcement, Virginia, which had initially voted against secession, voted to pull out. Now it was Arkansas’s turn to decide, and the delegates were pushing heavily for secession.This was not the first time that Murphy had to take a stand. He was born in 1799

Mary Boykin Chesnut was born March 31, 1823 in Stateburg, South Carolina. She was an American diarist and writer during the Civil War was in session. Her birth name was Mary Boykin Miller, oldest daughter of Mary Boykin Miller and Stephen Decatur Miller. The Miller family was a wealthy owner of a plantation. Plantation had a large farm with resident workers and slaves. Her father was a politician who supported states` rights over the national government and set their own policies and having the power to legalize slavery. Her family and she moved from South Carolina to capital city of Columbia and then returned to Camden.

The photographer I chose for my research paper is Mathew Brady. I chose him because he was a famed civil war photographer. And I believe his work is important to US history.

The Civil War, a period of four years in the United States filled with bloody combat, thousands of casualties, and the destruction of much of Southern infrastructure. Although the Civil War had various causes (economy, politics, etc.), it mainly originated from the pressing issue of slavery at the time, mainly its expansion into the Western territories. As we all know, slavery was one of the most horrific times in our nation’s history, yet it was a typical and normal thing for the people of the 19th century. The film, Glory (1989), directed by Edward Zwick, doesn’t necessarily depict the horrors of slavery, however it does show 19th century America’s attitude toward African Americans, as well as the average African American’s hunger for

Robert Gould Shaw, born in Boston into an abolitionist family, naturally sided with the Union in the Civil War. He had received an education from Harvard prior to entering the family business and when the secession of the south began his sense of duty required him to join the Union. Shaw was a natural leader and quickly was promoted from Lieutenant to Colonel. As a man who proved his worth as a military leader and his family open support for the integration of freed black slaves into the military, it is only fitting that he obtained a command leading the first all-black unit the 54th Massachusetts regiment. This command defined his military career and earned him the respect of his troops and the African American community well beyond his

Before Abraham Lincoln became president the politics with different because there was still slavery going on but James Buchanan did nothing about it by supporting slavery. "By the end of Buchanan's presidency, the slavery issue threatened to tear the country apart." James Buchanan mean the 15th president his career was called unsuccessfully tried to continue slavery or expand it but was unsuccessful any cause the country to tear apart because the Civil War he was blamed for." Enbroiled and explodes explosive struggle in Kansas over the expansion of slavery (1854-59), he attended to persuade Kansas voters to accept the unpopular Lecompton Constitution which would have permitted slavery there." If it wasn't for the 15th president on successful

The photos which require long exposure time to capture a photo as it is still relatively invented, the photos generally captured the soldiers going into a battle and then laying dead from the result of the aftermath. Photography was a relatively a new technology but it was not a welcomed one as the photography pioneers displayed such vividly real images to civilians and noncombatants. Matthew Bradley was one of those pioneers which was quoted "From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the face of its historic men and mothers."

The work was initially received differently in America. America was involved in the Civil War at the time and the North and the South took the painting in different ways. Leutze was an abolitionist. It is seen in the painting as there is an African American present in the painting on Washington’s boat. The Union used this to support their abolitionist belief. Overall, the North viewed the painting and saw freedom and union. Whereas, the South, viewed the painting and saw liberty and independence. Both sides interpreted differently, but both favored the painting because it represented George Washington, the founding father of America, and it painted him and the American Revolution in good light

When the flag was first adopted as the national symbol on June 14, 1777 it received very little interest or public display. Not until the outbreak of the Civil War nearly 80 years later did it become an object of public adoration to the North. After the Civil War the flag became increasingly visible with the commercialization of a wide range of products, modern advertising developed from the rapid postwar industrialization. It was then in 1890, union veterans began to protest the use the American flag in what they considered commercial debasement (Goldstein, 2006). They argued such commercial use would degrade the significance of both the flag and the patriotism among the public. Sometime after 1900 the threat shifted from commercial concern to being used as a means of expressing radical protest.

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During the pre-Civil War era, the technology of photography was rare or still in development. All renderings of war were either in paintings or in literature. Since artists were the only people capable of creating