No. 3181.

Confederate artillery soldiers killed at Petersburg April 2, 1865. Their uniform is gray cloth trimmed with red. The one in the foreground has on U. S. belts, doubtless taken from some federal prisoner.

1861. THE WAR FOR THE UNION:—PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY. 1865.

This series of pictures are original photographs taken during the war of the Rebellion. A quarter of a century has passed away since the sun painted these real scenes of that great war, and the "negatives" have undergone chemical changes which makes it slow and difficult work to get these photographic "prints" from them. Of course no more "negatives" can be made as the scenes represented by this series of war views have passed away forever. The great value of these pictures is apparent. Many of the "negatives" are entirely past printing from and all of them are about used up. The price is 30 cents each; $3.00 per dozen. A gentleman living near Watkin's Glen, N. Y., wrote me that he thought this price too high, as he could buy views of Watkin's Glen for $1.50 per dozen. I wrote him to this effect; if there was but one negative of Watkin's Glen in existence, and if Watkin's Glen itself were entirely wiped off the face of the earth, and if this one negative was old and "dense" and very slow to "print" and if all the people of this Country were as much interested in a view of Watkin's Glen as they are in seeing the real scenes of our great war, so faithfully reproduced, then, and only under such circumstances, should Watkin's Glen pictures be compared to photographs made "at the front" during the days of 1861 to 1865. The gentleman "acknowledged the corn," took the war views he wished for, and paid the reasonable price asked for them and was satisfied.

The above is the only answer I shall ever make to the question of price. I deem it necessary to say this much, as so many persons write and ask me for cheap war views; when I change the price on these war views, it will be to double it; they will never be any cheaper than now.

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JOHN C. TAYLOR, NO. 17 ALLEN PLACE, HARTFORD, CONN.