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The War Between the States was the first war in which Photography was widely used by Matthew Brady,Alexander Gardner and others to capture the terrible reality of warfare. The public was repulsed when photographs of the mangled dead bodies of soldiers were put on public display and the Horror was made real to people who were otherwise removed and insulated from the true nature of war. On a less emotional level photography allowed the images of the famous as well as the common soldier and the statesmen to be captured and preserved for future generations.

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