ocr: About the Collection This disc includes 1,118 photographs of the Civil War selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. The three main areas of focus are: 1) the main eastern theater, 2) the Federal Navy and the seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy, and 3) the war in the West. There are additional sections featuring Washington during the war, portraits of Confederate and Union officers, approximately fifty images of enlisted men, and several images associated with photographer Mathew B. Brady and his career. Most of the images were taken during the wa ...
