At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record ... could neither maneuver the rough terrain nor record images in the midst of battle. So newspaper publishers hired amateur ...

The American Civil War was the first major conflict ... from snapping even the most graphic of post-battle images to illustrate the horrors of war. Several of the images in this gallery are ...

The Cape Fear's most famous Civil War battle took place at Fort Fisher in January of 1865. But another important battle was fought miles away on the grounds of the present Day Cameron Art Museum.

the anguish of death in battle and the grief of families at home. Archival images of 16,000 photographs, taken from a total of 1 million pictures of the Civil War, along with period paintings ...

The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...