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  • Collection: Civil War - Fall 2023

George S. Cook photographs the world's first photo while the enemy is in action/being shot at (Union firing at Fort Moultrie).

Ruins of home in Charleston, South Carolina and another house in background.

- Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital…

Gives troop positions, batteries, names of commanders, roads, R.F. & P Railroad and the unfinished railroad, houses and names of residents, street…

It is captures what people from illinois were saying early into the civil war

Signs posted on a burned-out business, destroyed during the riots of 1992. Photo date: May 2, 1992.

"Map of the Battlefield of Antietam. On September 17, 1862, the battle was trumpeted over the arsenal explosion in the newspapers across the nation."

Deceased Artillery men lay on the battlefield--Antietam--with the Dunker Church in the background of the photo.

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