Quote Originally Posted by Freedom View Post
Thanks for that, well worth a view.

I was struck that the only Confederate soldiers shown were dead ones. At least, until you get to the bottom where they show some officer portraits. I couldn't find any explanation, though. Maybe there were no photographers in the South; or the plates didn't survive. But if they are in the Library of Congress, I wonder why this site only showed one side.
Who knows ??? Maybe a lot of these plates were gathered and stored by a particular photographer from that time who happened to be working for the North. There are certainly plenty of Confederate pics around.