Adjam5 Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 Maybe some of you have seen these pics before. But this was sent to me in a email by a friend and I was amazed at the pics they were able to save and how they were recovered. These are too good not to share. Enjoy. Original Civil War photographs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 (edited) Those are great Anthony, thanks for sharing! Such an awful waste of humanity. Edited February 15, 2012 by redkneck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layin on the smackdown Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 Wow Anthony - those are incredible as well as unbelievable. one of the last pictures is of a "fortunate survivor" of the Andersonville prison....i can't believe that guys is actually alive in that photo... Wow! thanks for sharing that, dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 WOW! Truely amazing photos! Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 great stuff there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 those are awesome! content in the photos is a bit grim at times but definitely pictures that no renacting could produce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastTnHunter Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 those are too cool, that guy Dan is talking about looks like a mummy I thought he was dead lol.... Love Civil war stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunt or be Hunted Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 I'm a HUGE civil war geek! That's why I reenact. Those pictures are AMAZING! I think I have seen them before, But I still love looking at em!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted February 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 I'm a HUGE civil war geek! That's why I reenact. Those pictures are AMAZING! I think I have seen them before, But I still love looking at em!! I was hoping you would get to see this thread. Glad you enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunt or be Hunted Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 I was hoping you would get to see this thread. Glad you enjoyed it. I'm glad I did! Just looked through them again! Thanks for posting them Anthony ! Will be heading down to Tennessee in 2 weeks to do the 150th Anniversary of the battle of Fort Donelson! Can't wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted February 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 Cool...Guys like you keep history alive and in the flesh. Have a safe trip and I won't tell you to have fun. That will be a given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LETMGROW Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 It is truly sad this war ever happend at all. With the seperation of classes we see the current administration setting Rich - Middle Class - Poor - could it happen again? Imagine our decendants looking at pictures 150 years from now thinking the same things we are right now. Scary! Lynn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 Thanks for sharing those Anthony, had not seen them before. Cool that the pictures are in the shape they are, but like Lynn says a shame that the war ever took place and so many lives were taken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LETMGROW Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 Thanks for sharing those Anthony, had not seen them before. Cool that the pictures are in the shape they are, but like Lynn says a shame that the war ever took place and so many lives were taken. Hey buddy, I'm a Northerner and you are a Southerner and we get along just fine. However you are Rich and I'm not. Look out. LOL Lynn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunt or be Hunted Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 And see, The thing is, Nothing was really settled during the Civil War. Some say it was fought over slavery, Some say it was because people could not get along. Some say it was "The war between the states" It depends how you look at it guys. Was anything really even won during the civil war?? Anything lost? You bet there was! 620,000 deaths, over 400,000 were from diseases when they got wounded. Many historians seek to justify the federal government's invasion of the South by claiming that the war was fought over slavery, and that Union were fighting to free the slaves while the South was fighting to keep them in bondage. A number of critics say the South only fought to ensure the continuation of slavery. A detailed refutation of these assertions would require a separate paper. The war was fought over secession, not over slavery. If the South had not declared its independence, Lincoln wouldn't have launched an invasion, and there would have been no war at all.. The only slave states that were charged with insurrection and then invaded were those that belonged to the Confederacy. Would Lincoln and the Republicans have accepted secession if the Confederacy had announced it was abolishing slavery as the first official act of its existence? Would the Republicans have allowed a peaceful separation if the Confederacy had started an emancipation program right after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)? Any serious student of the Civil War will agree that the answer to both of these questions is no. I don't think anyone who has studied the subject believes the Republicans would have allowed the South to go in peace no matter when the Confederacy would have started to abolish slavery..... I am done. (For right now) I am very touchy on this subject.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 And see, The thing is, Nothing was really settled during the Civil War. Some say it was fought over slavery, Some say it was because people could not get along. Some say it was "The war between the states" It depends how you look at it guys. Was anything really even won during the civil war?? Anything lost? You bet there was! 620,000 deaths, over 400,000 were from diseases when they got wounded. Many historians seek to justify the federal government's invasion of the South by claiming that the war was fought over slavery, and that Union were fighting to free the slaves while the South was fighting to keep them in bondage. A number of critics say the South only fought to ensure the continuation of slavery. A detailed refutation of these assertions would require a separate paper. The war was fought over secession, not over slavery. If the South had not declared its independence, Lincoln wouldn't have launched an invasion, and there would have been no war at all.. The only slave states that were charged with insurrection and then invaded were those that belonged to the Confederacy. Would Lincoln and the Republicans have accepted secession if the Confederacy had announced it was abolishing slavery as the first official act of its existence? Would the Republicans have allowed a peaceful separation if the Confederacy had started an emancipation program right after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)? Any serious student of the Civil War will agree that the answer to both of these questions is no. I don't think anyone who has studied the subject believes the Republicans would have allowed the South to go in peace no matter when the Confederacy would have started to abolish slavery..... I am done. (For right now) I am very touchy on this subject.. Could be a good topic of discussion in itself right there Jeremy. Civil war history got my interest more after taking a college history class way back when and learning a few things on my own that are not taught in any textooks that I know of. Lincoln had some interesting plans from what I have read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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