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
Storage Vaults for More than Forty Years and
are now the