Slavery and a growing war
By early 1862 any lingering fantasy that the war would be quick and bloodless had evaporated.
Horrific reports from places like the Hornets Nest, the Bloody Lane, and Marye's Heights forced both sides to change their tactics. And a wave of new technology captured the images of war for a nation that had never seen war up close.
Lincoln issued an Emancipation Proclamation and by the end of the war over 200,000 African-Americans joined the Union Army. Pyrrhic victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville steered the Army of Northern Virginia northward once more.
Horrific reports from places like the Hornets Nest, the Bloody Lane, and Marye's Heights forced both sides to change their tactics. And a wave of new technology captured the images of war for a nation that had never seen war up close.
Lincoln issued an Emancipation Proclamation and by the end of the war over 200,000 African-Americans joined the Union Army. Pyrrhic victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville steered the Army of Northern Virginia northward once more.
* All photos by Buddy Secor (Ninja Pix) unless otherwise noted. *