Civil War medical photography

Civil War medical photography
December 1 2011


Christopher Benfey, New York Review of Books, on Stanley B Burns, Shooting Soldiers: Civil War Medical Photography by R. B. Bontecou, New York, Burns Archive Press, 2011.

The American Civil War foreshadowed twentieth-century wars in some respects, produced the first detailed photographic record of a war, and produced innovations in medicine and nursing, as the Crimean War had done in England.

Nineteenth-century group photographs

Ypres and Netley