What an unbelievable website!

It is fortunate that these photos have survived. Most probably a million wet plate photos were made during the civil war on glass plate. Popular during the war, they lost their appeal afterwards and so many were sold for the glass. Many used in green houses. Over the years the sun caused the images to disappear.

These are pretty amazing considering they were taken over to 150 years ago: A compendium of photos from era of the War Between the States.

Run the cursor over the photograph and the picture caption will pop up. Click photo and enlarge to read the rest of the caption.

http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html

Good find. Amazing pics. It's going to take some time to see them all.

Very interesting.  It's amazing to me how simple and uncluttered the world looked back then.  I guess people just didn't have much "stuff". 

Great photos of a bad time.  When I hear people today whine and **** and moan about how tough they have it, I think,  "You have no idea......."

WOW....
THAT IS AWESOME...
thank you for the link, I am really into the civil War documentations, and seeing those pictures of Virginia sites, and especially Richmond, which I have shot tons of pictures in, is super...thanks!!!

i want a glass plate camera!

Great web site! Thanks Conrad!

Back in the late 70's, Great America in San Jose had a place that did old time tin type photos. Actually printed the photo on a tin plate. We got a family shot and have kept that in a dark file all these years but it is still greatly faded.