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The Center for Civil War Photography presents an online 3-D Exhibition Hall featuring a selection of Civil War stereo views from the collection of Bob Zeller. Many of these views were featured in The Civil War in Depth. Here, they are reproduced in their original sepia tones. Some are hand-tinted in color.

Many computer users, if your screen is not too large, you can use the viewer from The Civil War in Depth to see these views in 3-D! Rather than fold the viewer as instructed for viewing the images in the book, leave the viewer flat and simply hold the lenses up to your eyes. Relax your eyes and hold the viewer about 3 inches from the computer screen. Slowly draw away from the screen, keeping the viewer in front of your eyes. The view should appear in 3-D when the viewer is four to five inches from the screen.


Click on a title or an image for a larger view and description.


A Photographer at
Work in Fort Sumter


A Rare Confederate Stereo View


The Slave Pen


The First Great
American War Photograph


Custer Captures a Classmate


The Bloodiest Day


Bloody Lane
(two views)


A Contrast
(two perspectives)


The Old Hero of Gettysburg


Harvest of Death
(in color)


Three Confederate
Prisoners at Gettysburg




The Civil War in Depth explores combat photography in the chapter "A Sense of Action." Although actual combat photographs are the rarest of the rare, a number of views leave the impression that the fighting is not far off. Here are a selection of views from "A Sense of Action," including the only photographs known or purported to show combat.


The Battle of Nashville


Lookout Valley


George S. Cook's
Combat Action Photograph


The Exploding Shell Photograph


Another View from September 8, 1863


The Dutch Gap
"Action Sequence"


Union Breastworks


Fort Damnation


One of the Last to Fall


The Petersburg Railroad Depot


Patronize a Disabled Soldier



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