Battle Hymn of The Republic

The Story behind something beautiful coming from Washington D.C.

Union Army Soldiers posing as if in combat in Virginia. Note the term posing here is accurate the process of exposing the negative is impossible when the subjects are moiving because it takes so long, as a result all civil war era photographs of combat are posed. Image from Pixabay.com

In 1861 the military forces of South Carolina fired on supply ships a…