Original Photographs
Taken on the
BATTLEFIELDS
During the
Civil War of the United States
By Mathew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner
Who operated under the Authority of the War Department and the Protection of the Secret Service
Rare Reproductions from Photographs Selected from Seven Thousand
Original Negatives Taken under Most Hazardous Conditions in the
Midst of One of the Most Terrific Conflicts of Men that the
World Has Ever Known, and in the Earliest Days of
Photography—These Negatives Have Been in