Series abstract : The Image of war is an expression of the Civil War through the photographer's eyes. What interested them interests us. What they did not cover with their negatives this work does not cover in its text. The chapter narratives aim not at a history of the war, but prepare the reader for the images to follow, and illuminate them. It aims to set aright a century-old injustice. Thanks to his entrepreneurial genius, Mathew Brady so left his stamp upon Civil War photography that even today the conception is widespread that Brady was the only artist covering the war, that any civil War photograph is a "Brady." In actual fact, Brady may not personally have exposed a single one of the thousands of negatives attributed to him. By 1861 his nearsightedness had progressed to such a state that he left all the camera work to his assistants, while he personally took all the credit. An attempts is here made to return that credit to the largely forgotten men like David B. Woodbury, T.C. Roche, James Gipson and many more, who worked for Brady. Beyond correcting the record with Brady and his assistants, it is desired as well to open the readers' eyes and minds to the work of the host of other artists operating throughout the war-torn nation through the relatively new eyes of the camera. Volume 6 : The final installment in the Image of War series, this volume follows the year-long siege at Petersburg, Sherman's March to the Sea, and showcases the organizational and industrial might of the North, which finally prevails. This work also showcases early Reconstruction Era.

"A project of the National Historical Society." Map on end papers. Includes index. Ill. on lining papers.