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joboo
18th March 2012, 02:00 PM
More: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-1-the-places/100241/

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/civilwar020812/s_c01_09170338.jpgThis September 1862 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows Allan Pinkerton on horseback during the Battle of Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Before the outbreak of war, he had founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. In 1861, he famously foiled an alleged plot to assassinate president-elect Lincoln, and later served as the head of the Union Intelligence Service -- the forerunner of the U.S. Secret Service. (AP Photo/Library of Congress, Alexander Gardner) http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/i/lnk.jpg (http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/civilwar020812/c01_09170338.jpg)


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Fort Sumter, South Carolina, April, 1861, under the Confederate flag. The first shots of the Civil War took place here, on April 12, 1861, as Confederate batteries opened fire on the Union fort, bombarding it for 34 straight hours. On April 13, Union forces surrendered and evacuated the fort. Union forces made many attempts to retake the fort throughout the war, but only took possession on February 22, 1865, after Confederate forces had evacuated Charleston. (NARA) # (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-1-the-places/100241/#img02) http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/i/lnk.jpg (http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/civilwar020812/c02_00sumter.jpg)


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Yorktown, Virginia, Embarkation for White House Landing, Virginia, Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. (LOC) # (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-1-the-places/100241/#img03) http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/i/lnk.jpg (http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/civilwar020812/c03_0001590a.jpg)


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A captured Confederate encampment near Petersburg, Virginia, in June of 1864. (Timothy H. O'Sullivan/LOC) # (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-1-the-places/100241/#img04) http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/i/lnk.jpg (http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/civilwar020812/c04_0000382a.jpg)

Libertarian_Guard
18th March 2012, 07:02 PM
Pictures look good till someone starts reporting 600,000 dead.

After that, pictures don't mean $hit!