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EARLY WAR PHOTOGRAPHS
Fifty Years ofWar Photographs From the
Nineteenth Century
Pat Hodgson
97 sepia photographs
Photojournalism on the battlefield began
almost immediately upon the invention of
the camera. Working with cumbersome and
unreliable equipment, the first war
photographers recorded, to extraordinary
effect and free from the bias ofdrawn and
written accounts, realities ofcombat, of
camp life, the march, and the besieged
town. These photographic documents were
a revelation to a newspaper audience
accustomed to the adventury-story
viewpoint ofthe sketch-pad artists who had
previouslyaccompanied war correspondents.
This book contains photographs ofmilitary
subjects from the wars ofthe nineteenth
century: they include the Crimean War, the
American Civil War, and the Franco-
Prussian and Boer Wars. Each picture is
fully described, with information on the
action depicted and details ofthe earliest
publication ofthe picture. The text
discusses the leading photographers, their
equipment and methods, and the conditions
under which they worked - including the
emergence of fakes and propaganda
pictures and the attitudes ofarmy
authorities to the new observers in their
midst.
EARLY WAR PHOTOGRAPHS
is a
splendidly illustrated segment ofthe history
ofphotography, the history ofwarfare, and
the history ofman's ability to record and
communicate his most intense experiences.
Jacket Illustration 'C Company ofthe Royal
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Canadian Regiment seizing a kopje at
Paardeburg.
New York Graphic Society
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Early war photographs
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Frontispiece
Encampment of the Army of the Potomac, May-June 1862
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Photograph by James F. Gibson Copyright: Library of Congress, Washington
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WAR
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PHOTOGRAPHS
Compiled and written by
PAT HODGSON
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New York Graphic Society
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International Standard Book Number 0-8212-0630-3
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 74-78767
Copyright (' 1974 Osprey Publishing Ltd.
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced or used in any form or by any means
without written permission of the publishers.
Published in Great Britain 1974 by
Osprey Publishing Ltd., Reading, Berkshire, England
Published in the United States ofAmerica and in
Canada by New York Graphic Society Ltd., Boston
Printed in Great Britain
Contents
page
Introduction n
Bibliography
31
The Photographs
2nd Sikh War 1848-9
General Sir Charles James Napier 34
2nd Burma War 18$2-3
Indian artillery parked before the Great Pagoda, Prome 35
Crimean War 1854-6
Balaclava Harbour 36
Roger Fenton's photographic van 38
The Valley of Death 39
Captain Brown and his servant 40
Lt Col Hallewell, 28th Regiment - his day's work over 41
Henry Duberly Esq, Paymaster 8th Hussars and Mrs
Duberly 42
Cookhouse of the 8th Hussars 43
Camp of the 4th Dragoon Guards French and English
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have a convivial party 44
Camps of the Light, 2nd and 4th Divisions from
Cathcart's Hill 45
Interior of the Redan 46
Interior of barrack battery 47
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Indian Mutiny 1857-9
Part of barracks held by General Wheeler at
Cawnpore after bombardment 49
Interior of the Secundra Bagh 5
Bridge of boats over the Gumti 52
Damage caused by the mine in the Chutter Munzil 54
Lt Mecham and assistant surgeon Thomas Anderson
with Sikh officers and men 55
Chinese Wars 1856-60
Pehtang Fort and encampment of Probyn's Sikh
Cavalry 56
Pehtang Fort with captured Chinese guns 58
Embrasure, Taku Fort 59
Rear of North Taku Fort after its capture 60
American Civil War 1861—5
Yankee prisoners from Bull Run in Castle Pinckney,
Charleston 62
Inspection of troops at Cumberland Landing,
Pamunkey 64
Savage Station - Union Field Hospital after the battle 67
Dead by the railway fence on the Hagerstown Pike,
Antietam 68
Dunker Church and the dead, Antietam 69
Signal tower on Elk Mountain, overlooking the
battlefield of Antietam 70
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Harvest of Death, Gettysburg 71
The aftermath of Sedgwick's assault on Marye's
Heights 72
Council of war, Massapomax Church 74
'Mortar dictator' in front of Petersburg 75
Cooper's Battery ready to open fire 76
Federal soldiers relaxing by guns of a captured fort,
Atlanta 78
Federal wagon trains move through Petersburg 79
Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators 80
Japan 1864
Inside the Lower Battery at Simonosaki after the fighting 82
