“My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.” —Mathew Brady Mat

A comprehensive narrative and collection of photographs of the Civil War.

The first narrative biography of the Civil War's pioneering visual historian, Mathew Brady, known as the “father of American photography.” Mathew Brady's at

Retells the Civil War through the eyes of photographer Mathew Brady and other field photographers as they record a brutal and deadly time.