Born 1822 or 1823
Warren County, New York
Died January 15, 1896
New York City, New York

Civil War photographer
His studio produced many of the war's
most famous photographs

"[Mathew Brady proved] what photography could do by telling what neither the tongues nor the letters of soldiers could tell of troops in camp, on the march, or mute and bullet-riddled on the ground."

Carl Sandburg

Mathew Brady. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress.)

Mathew Brady is the most famous of the many American photographers who documented the Civil War in pictures. He did not personally take many of the photographs that made him famous. Instead, failing eyesight forced him to hire teams of photographers to take care of the actual camera work. But it was Brady who led the effort to use photography as a way of recording the events of the Civil War for future generations. "[Mathew Brady...