Fighting for Time, the Image of War: 1861-1865 Volume V by William C. Davis, ...

Fighting For TIme
The Image of War:  1861-1865, Volume IV
by William C. Davis, Editor and Bell I. Wiley, Senior Consulting Editor
Publisher:  Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Copyright 1983
Over 650 Civil War Photographs in this Volume

The shooting that began in 1861 goes on and on, and by 1863 the was has given the divided nation a strange, grim unity, claiming as it has the undivided attention of both North and South.

Following the armies in camp and field was something new to warfare; the photographer and his (in a few cases, her) weapon -- the camera.  After two years of bloody strife, as soldiers "marched ever onward [in the words of William C. Davis in his Introduction] fighting for victory, or merely fighting for time, the cameramen rapidly demonstrated that their time had come.  And . . . in the wake of three previous volumes in the series The Image of War 1861-1865, it is happily evident that their time is still with us."

In this vivid history of what the New York Times called ". . . the real American tragedy . . .," Volume IV carries the story forward to the war on sea and river -- the siege of Vicksburg, the fall of Charleston.  In extraordinary, long-forgotten photographs, as well as essays by some of today's foremost historians of the Civil War, we glimpse the action as it really happened and as it was actually recorded by a device as important as -- and often more accurate than -- the printed word.  The result offers many never-before-seen glimpses of America in the art of rending herself asunder more than a century ago.  In the silent echo of these pages are the mercurial moods, the valor, the squalor, of two nations and one people locked in fratricidal war.

The Image of War:  1861-1865 is an unrivaled expression of the Civil War through the photographer's eyes.  To create this dramatic record, researchers for the National Historical Society traveled more than 30,000 miles, crossed the Atlantic Ocean to England and the Pacific Ocean to Australia, to examine over 100,000 rare photographs of the conflict.

In 1911, Francis T. Miller published a Photographic History of the Civil War in ten volumes.  It was an impressive record, although by modern standards primitive and often inaccurate.  Many collections were missed, most notably the MOLLUS (Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the US) Collection, assembled in Boston in 1880 and housed since 1974 at the War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.  The Chicago Historical Society and the Western Reserve Historical Society were two other largely untapped sources which have been discovered in recent years.

This monumental new work will also correct errors and misconceptions that have been entrenched for over one hundred years.  Old views are now properly identified; artists previously unrecognized are given credit -- particularly the assistants to Mathew Brady:  Woodbury, Roche, and Gibson.  Pioneering Confederate photographers -- J. D. Edwards, F. K. Houston, Osborn & Durbec -- are also finally acknowledged.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the short title page.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.  Binding is in beginning stages of splitting in places throughout the book, but pages are in tact thus far.  THIS IS A SIX POUND BOOK.

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