Mathew B. Brady used his camera to record his country's history producing the greatest pictorial essay of our time.

"A picture album": p. [91]-[228]

Pt. 1. Brady of Broadway. The birth of photography -- Albert's fair -- the infant becomes a giant -- Photographer to a railsplitter and a prince -- Pt. 2. The war years. Brady goes to war -- Battles and business as usual -- The crisis and the camera -- Pt. 3. The postwar years. Aftermath -- The years of the bloody shirt -- The camera under Western skies -- The last years -- The accepted photographer.