Roger Fenton was taking images in Crimea in the mid nineteen fifties, and a few years after that the American Civil War started in the spring of 1961. The civil war in America was a time in which photographers spread far and wide to capture the war. Newspapers and other outlets put out word for photographers to go and take photographs of the war, men would flock to portrait studios to have their photograph made in their new uniforms so there are many civil war photographs that were taken during the four year period of the war. Unlike Fentons photographs the photographers of the civil war got close to the action and took pictures of actual battles, and of the more gruesome scenes as well. After the battles took place many photographers would
