Civil War Images

Thursday April 9th,

• While walking to class that day, I had realized that I had not looked at my emails on my Blackberry. So I pulled out my phone and started to look at my emails that I had received while I had been sleeping. Typically the first email i check is one I receive daily from The History Channel, "This Day in History". "Ahhhh" I said, "that is today isn't it". I was referring to, that on this day in 1865, the American Civil War ended in Appomattox, Virginia when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. I then recollected upon my many trips with my mother to the civil war battlefields that we had done in the past three years. Great times!!! (NOTE: I WILL POST SOME OF MY PICTURES VERY SOON) NOTE: TECHNICALLY the Civil War didn't end until Union General William Tecumsah Sherman kicked Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston ass in Durham, NC!!! I must say I am proud to say I am from NC when I know Sherman kicked some tail!!!! I wish I could be like Sherman, I'm getting there but not close enough....
  

• I arrive at class thinking about how much I miss history courses....which is pretty usual...but anyway back to the assignment. Some how I don't quite remember why or how but we get to pictures of the civil war!!!!!!!! Coincidence??????
  

Sunday April 12,

• So I am writing this post today. I woke up this morning and I didn't even need to look at my phone to know what day this was. It was the day that the Civil War started in 1861, at Fort Sumter.

BELOW ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE OR MOST STRIKING PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE CIVIL WAR. Some are taken by Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner and Timothy Sullivan.


The above photograph has to be one of the most powerful images I have ever seen.