Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints provides a sample of the photographs, images, albums, and more, relating to the Civil War held by SMU's DeGolyer Library. These items depict both the Confederate and Union sides of the war.
This digital collection contains unique items pertaining to the Civil War and its aftermath. For example, you will find photographs made by T. Dwight Biscoe (1840-1930) and Walter S. Biscoe (1853-1933) on a trip through Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania primarily of Civil War battlefields and cemeteries. Mounts include detailed descriptions about the battles, and the date, time and weather when the photographs were made. Sites include: the battlefields of Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek near Winchester, Virginia, Harper's Ferry, Antietam and Hagerstown, Maryland.
A graduate of Amherst College, Dwight Biscoe was a professor of science at Marrietta College in Ohio for more than 30 years. Keenly interested in photography, he made his own glass plate negatives and also had a dark room in his home. Walter Biscoe was an Amherst classmate and friend of Melvil Dewey and helped him with Dewey's library decimal classification system. Biscoe also served as New York state librarian.
Usage: Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using these image files. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.
Contact Info: For more information about Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints, please write to degolyer@smu.edu.