Brought the war home. I wonder how much the south saw during the war. He showed in pictures the terrible cost of war. Showed where and how the glory ended for many a young man, both north and south. In Brady's photo's you see the pain and angush on the faces. How they tore at their clothes trying to locate the wound. Being gutshot was a long and slow death. Most all families were touched by the civil war, especially in the South. My family has a letter written on plain brown paper and pencil by an unkown officer. The type you use in the 3rd grade. It states in the flowing penmanship and wording of the time, my great,great, great grandfather had "taken a mortal wound to the head." And before you great debates jump down my throat, he was a private with the 12th Ohio and died at the battle of Perryville, KY.
