Silent Witness: The Civil War through Photography and its Photographers

The last book on this subject which takes a similar approach was published in 2005 and many more unique images have been unearthed by the author since then.

Ron Field is an internationally acknowledged expert on US military history. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1982, he taught History at Piedmont High School in California in 1982-83, and was Head of History at the Cotswold School in Bourton-on-the-Water in the UK until his retirement in 2007. In 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, based in Washington, DC, and was awarded its Emerson Writing Award in 2013. In 2015 he became senior editor ofMilitary Imagesmagazine, devoted to the American military image of the nineteenth century. In 2014-2015 he also advised on the Confederate uniforms worn in the upcoming STX Entertainment Civil War filmFree State of Jones, due for release on June 23, 2016.

IntroductionOpening Shots, 1859-61Photography on the Home FrontPhotography in Camp and BarracksPhotography at the FrontPhotography in Maps and DocumentsThe Camera with the NavyClosing Shots, 1865AfterwordGlossary of Technical TermsNotes & BibliographyIndex