By Ronald S. Coddington A new memorial to honor Mathew Brady is scheduled to be unveiled this year near his burial site at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Years in
By Gene Eric Salecker Some photographs achieve iconic status because they are haunting and immediate. Marines raising the U.S. flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Jack Ruby shooting President
By Dominick A. Serrano Collecting Confederate images has never been easy. The ambrotypes and cartes de visite have always been more costly and elusive than their Northern counterparts, and finding
By Michael Huston Twenty years after John Morton joined the 19th Iowa Infantry, he contacted his comrades in Company C and asked them to send him their likenesses. Many responded,
By Ronald S. Coddington, with artifacts from the Ken Fleming Collection Asa Adell Holbrook enjoyed telling stories about his war service. Even during his last days in a Soldiers’ Home
By Ronald S. Coddington On a September day in 1864, a Union sergeant stationed at the sprawling military hub in Louisville, Ky., put the finishing touches on a letter. It
First in a multi-part series of Abraham Lincoln imagery by MI Contributing Editor Chris Nelson, featuring photographs from the author’s collection Considering the world’s fascination with the government, economics and
By Ron Field Some of the original European hussars served as quasi-military auxiliaries raised in 1458 by King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary to fight against the Turks. The hussars developed
Behind every Civil War portrait photograph lies a question that the person paying the bill had to consider: Which format do I choose? Two primary options were available. Hard plates,
Featuring images collected in collaboration with Editor Dale Niesen of the Facebook group “The Image Collector” and other sources, reviewed by Jeff Stockham. This Union musician holds an over-the-shoulder tenor
