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Three Confederate Prisoners at Gettysburg |
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Three Confederate Prisoners at Gettysburg
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Brady's finest photograph at Gettysburg was this one. Three Confederate prisoners, dressed in classic Rebel uniforms, their dignity and bearing intact, posed for his camera near the Lutheran Theological Seminary on Seminary Ridge before being moved out of the town. This is one of the best known photographic records of Confederate uniforms. Although the caption says these men were captured during Pickett's Charge, they were probably stragglers who were picked up along one of the roads outside the city. This image was taken on or around July 15, 1863, some 12 days after Pickett's Charge.
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In 1890, Civil War veteran John C. Taylor created an ambitious sales program of Civil War photographs called "War Memories." His 24-page catalog offered for sale 228 stereo views, 200 large plate photographs, glass slides for a stereopticon slide show and museum exhibition cases. Stereo views were $3 a dozen, which some apparently thought too expensive, judging from the strident essay about prices on the back of this view. Although the Taylor and Huntington stereo views are frequently encountered today, very few large-plate prints or glass slides exist, suggesting the business venture was unsuccessful.
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