Brady’s Civil War Time Machine A dead person is a gruesome sight to see. More in real life, but for some one who has never seen anything like it, it can be quite shocking. The most popular of Brady’s photographs were the ones of the dead. And this destroyed the idea that war is romantic and glorious. The people who saw Mathew Brady’s photographs from the civil war were horrified, yet intrigued. …showed first 75 words of 1065 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1065 total…died that, “it changed the whole course of my life.” And his photographs changed the lives of everyone who saw them. Works Cited Lossing, Benson J. Mathew Brady’s Illustrated History of the Civil War. New York: Fair Fax Press, 1912. Meredith, Roy. The World of Mathew Brady: Portraits of the Civil War Period. Los Angeles: 1976. Sullivan, George. Mathew Brady: His Life and Photographs. New York: 1994 Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth. Mathew Brady: Civil War Photographer. New York: 1997.