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Over the past 20 or so years, we have seen old movies and vintage photographs be colorized. This process has proven most affective and as it has evolved, it's become pretty stunning. Who would have known that Abraham Lincoln had blue eyes? I admit, I never really thought about it before, but now that I've seen his eyes, it really does bring a whole new meaning to these pictures.

I can't explain the process or the art of doing this. But I surely can enjoy the results. I have seen old black and white crime photos and mugshots changed to color, old west photos, pictures of the Titanic and old automotive pictures. But now, more and more, people are switching many of the old Civil War photographs from the original black and white into color.
There were a lot of Civil War pictures taken and many were not very good quality. Traveling around the country in a wagon and developing the pictures in the back of these wagons was a tricky process. Many of the shots came out wonderful. However, a lot, as I said before, were not the best quality. This is understandable. But we have now found that the colorization process has, in many cases, brought out the details in these pictures that we could not see before. It has also restored them and made the shots more clearer and sharper.

I have created this blog to showcase some of these photographs. They really do bring a whole new aspect to Civil War history. This is the way that the Civil War was seen by the people who were there 160 years ago. I thank the people and the companies that have applied this process to these pictures. It's a fascinating way to see our history.


NOTE: There are a very few photos of dead soldiers that I have added here. However, I did not use any of the violent pictures that I have out of respect for my visitors. But death is a part of war and the Civil War was the bloodiest that I've seen. I simply wanted to warn you in case you would rather not view them.