History buffs really will love these. It is fortunate that

these have survived. Most probably a million wet plate photos

were made during the civil war on glass plate.

Popular during the war, they lost their appeal afterwards

and many were sold for the glass. Many were used in green houses. Over

the years the sun caused the images to disappear.

 

These are pretty amazing considering they were taken up to

150 years ago: A compendium of photos from era of the War Between

the States. Run the cursor over the photograph and the picture

caption will pop up.

 

Click each photo to enlarge and to read the caption.

http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html