Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War 1861-1865
ALEXANDER GARDNER 1821-1882 immigrated to the US from Scotland in 1855 with an invitation from the well-known photographer Matthew Brady.  Gardner then worked in Brady's New York studio and later became the manager of Brady's Washingon studio.  In 1862, he left Bradys's studio taking his own negatives because Brady refused to give Gardner and the other photographers emloyed by him individual credit for their Civil War photographs.  Gardner susequently became the official photographer of the Union's Army of the Potomac serving until the end of the Civil War. He published the original editon of this book, Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War in 1866.  The book was edited and written by Gardner and it included photograplhs by other photogrpahers as Timothy O'Sulliven, George Barnard, Wood & Gibson as well as by Gardner himself.As a photographer, Gardner is known for photographs of the dead soldiers after the battle of Gettysburg and his memorable portraits of President Lincoln.  He coninued to be a successful portrait photographer in Washington DC until his heath in 1882