“Zealous in their work, often regardless of danger, and at all times handicapped by the vexing difficulties of the photographic process of that day,” pioneering photographer Mathew Brady and his assistants created an unprecedented photographic record of war, capturing “scenes of actual conflict, others of places devastated by gunfire, of troops on the march or in bivouac, and of individual officers and men” (DAB).

The photographers depicted the soldiers and their leaders, the forts, the camps, the marches, the battlefields where the Blue met the Gray… and the horrendous aftermaths. In 1911 Francis Trevelyan Miller’s renowned Photographic History of the Civil War brought together over a thousand of Brady’s dramatic images—many previously unpublished—in ten large quarto volumes, with contributions from distinguished historians as well as veterans of both Confederate and Union forces. We have in our collection a fine first edition of this vital and indispensable photographic history. Browse our current inventory.