What is the importance photography in the United States Civil War?

I have to make a slide show of no less than 5 slides explaining the importance of photographs during the U.S. Civil War. I cannot find enough information to fill up even two slides.


What I do have already is that this war was the first war to have ever been photographed and that Americans all over the continent were able to see horrifying and vivid pictures of their own people murdering each other.


If you know anymore important facts relating to this topic, please post below.|||You are going to make a bad start with your show if you begin by saying that it was the first war to be photographed. This is wrong. The first war photographs were taken by Roger Fenton during the Crimean War in the previous decade. I think you need to do quite a lot more research; this is fairly easy as I imagine that there have been one or two articles, nay, books even, written about Matthew Brady and the American Civil War. It's possible that you may find references to this subject on the Internet if you look hard.|||The most important reason for photography was not just to have a reminder, but also to help keep military records, medical records, and to aid in history books for their future.





Melinda Matthews, Queen of Knows-a-Lot, and Professional Hug-Giver|||You cannot answer this question without learning about Mathew Brady, the pre-eminent photographer of the conflict.





See what he saw, and you will have no shortage of info.|||I just typed in civil war photos into my search bar and plenty of websites came up:





http://www.civil-war.net/cw_images/index鈥?/a>





http://www.wildwestweb.net/cwphotos.html





http://www.civilwar-pictures.com/g/civil鈥?/a>





http://www.archives.gov/research/civil-w鈥?/a>





And here is the search results page:





http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8%26amp;鈥?/a>|||Photographs back then had to be of complete still objects or else the photo would just come out blurry. That explains why the only pictures we have of the Civil War are pictures of dead bodies and not action shots.