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 03-18-2010, 11:38 PM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia Posts: 2,421 |  Civil War Photos.
From the darkest days in our nation's brief history.
Original Civil War photographs__________________
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| 03-19-2010, 12:38 AM | #2 | I'm always 10-8 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 150 miles NE of Sloppy Joe's Bar, in the "GunShine" State Posts: 19,161 |
Great post! We don't see war in this rawness anymore. Maybe that's what the douchtastic war protesters need to see, or better yet, experience!
There seams to be a preponderance of Confederate dead in those photos. Biased media?
And I didn't know Andy Sipowicz was in the Civil War; (Here's your war, right here!) __________________ .
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| 03-19-2010, 12:41 AM | #3 | I'm always 10-8 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 150 miles NE of Sloppy Joe's Bar, in the "GunShine" State Posts: 19,161 |
Hey gorks, your siggy is wrong.
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Colt, everything else is stamp collecting! - cane
"Given ten days for a project, a good engineer spends nine days figuring out how to finish it in one day."
Resistance is not futile.
It's voltage divided by current (R=V/I).
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| 03-19-2010, 12:58 AM | #4 | Ground Zero Ocean Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Florence, Oregon Posts: 8,463 |
Thanks for the sobering reminder of the fact that Freedom isn't Free!! __________________ Molon Labe!
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| 03-19-2010, 10:39 AM | #5 | Supporting Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Katy, Texas Posts: 1,376 |
Powerful photographs, especialy of the dead soldiers. A strong reminder of how horrific war can be. The American Civil War was an exceptional tragedy. __________________
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| 03-19-2010, 11:09 AM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Stafford, Virginia, The state of insanity. Posts: 14,049 |
A lot of people don't know that from DC to Richmond there were not a single tree left during the war because they were using the lumber for anything and everything they could. They were burning it to stay warm in the winter, Building small out buildings to live in. This area of the country looked like Scorched earth. | |
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| 03-19-2010, 12:13 PM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Sydney, Aust Posts: 2,033 |
Incredible photos, gork...thanks for sharing them.
It's completely inconceivable to me what it would be like for a country to suffer that most terrible, bloody and gut-wrenching event, a Civil War. A national wound that severe has to run deep  __________________ Illigitimi Non Carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down
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| 03-19-2010, 12:57 PM | #8 | mmmmm...... Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Maiden, NC Posts: 9,583 |
Does this subject remind anyone else of current events and the hope that it doesn't happen again? __________________
If the pain is lacking so is the discipline...
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| 03-19-2010, 02:37 PM | #9 | Supporting Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Phoenix Posts: 4,442 |
Very nice find Gork. I always enjoy historical photos. | |
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| 03-19-2010, 02:42 PM | #10 | Supporting Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Bandera, Texas Posts: 10,339 |
Thanks for sharing, what a find. Great chronicle of a horrible time in our nation's history.
And, as an amateur photographer, I'm still amazed at how black and white photographs can capture so much more than color, IMO. | |
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