Friday, June 26, 2015

The battlefields of the Civil War then and now: Pictures reveal how settings of the bloodiest conflicts in U.S. history look 150 years on


Daily Mail  "Just over 150 years ago, they hosted some of the deadliest battles and most gruesome episodes of conflict in U.S. history.
"Thousands of Confederate and Union soldiers perished in these places, and more the century after the bloodshed, the memories of the Civil War still remain. 
"Pictures released by the national archive show corpses lying in front of churches, soldiers being hung and troops preparing for battle across the country.
"They have been compared with images taken at the same spot today, and many locations have stayed the same."   Read more:



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