Thousands of scenes photographed 1861-1865, with text by many special authorities. Volume 1 of 10 volume set. Includes the following: Forewords (Greetings, Dedication, Acknowledgement, Editorial Introductory); Prefaces (Photographing the Civil War; The Photographic Record as History; The Federal Navy and the South; Records of the War Between the States; The Strategy of the Civil War Leaders); The First of the Great Campaigns (Bull Run The Volunteers Face Fire); Down the Mississippi Valley (The Fall of Fort Henry and Donelson; Shiloh - The First Grand Battle; New Madrid and Island Number Ten; New Orleans - The Navy Helps the Army; Fort Pillow and Memphis - Gunboats and Batteries); The Struggle for Richmond (Yorktown -Up the Peninsula; Fair Oaks - In Sight of Richmond; The Shenandoah and the Alarm at Washington; Seven Days - The Confederate Capital Saved); Engagements of the Civil War up to July, 1862 (Map -Theater of Campaigns in Virginia). Photographs, many of which are reproduced in print for the first time, are described in detail. Comprehensive index appears in Volume 10.

Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 1 of 10