I recently visited the Met to see the exhibit "Photography and the American Civil War" and ended up liking it so much that I boug...

Sisters Lucretia Electa and Louisa Ellen Crossett in identical skirts, blouses, and jewelry with weaving shuttles The photograph above w...

The image above is a tintype in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs . The man pictured is Abram M. Carhart. This i...

Lewis W. Cashdollar ( New York State Military Museum ) It was face of the man in this picture that drew me in. He looks resolute, but sl...

Colonel Joseph Egolf ( New York State Military Museum ) I think you can tell why I chose this photograph for my next Civil War Photo inv...

I spent the morning searching the photographs on the New York State Military Museum website , trying to find one that would seize my att...

William Carasaw ( New York State Military Museum ) Why did William Carasaw volunteer to fight in the Civil War? In his forties at the st...

In the course of my research on the 59th New York State Infantry Regiment - in which Charles W. Cronk, the son of Alfred and Sally Ann Car...