The Civil War in photos: people, places, and stereographs

Last week the The Atlantic’s photo feature, In Focus, featured a three part series of Civil War photos–they even had a couple pictures of Richmond. Here’s one from each series, we definitely recommend checking each one out in full.

February 17, 2012; 11:30 AM • by RVANews staff

Last week the The Atlantic’s photo feature, In Focus, featured a three part series of Civil War photos–they even had a couple pictures of Richmond. Here’s one from each series, I definitely recommend checking each one out in full.

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People

Here’s a photo of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Davis was inaugurated Feb 22nd, 1862 (that’s 150 years ago next week!). You can read more about his inauguration here.

Check out the full set of photos here!

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Places

Seen in this photo is the capitol building and what’s left of Richmond’s downtown after being burned before abandoned.

Check out the full set of photos here!

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Stereographs

Stereographs are two sets of images that when viewed with a special viewer (or blended with TECHNOLOGY) appear three dimensional. Click on over to The Alantic to get the full result.

This particular stereograph is of a group of contrabands taken in Richmond on June 9th, 1865.