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I sold many many glass plate negatives to the U.S. for almost $25,000 but it was not enough to pay my debts and provide food for me and my family. But my desire for the civil war helped me get where I was.

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Alexander Gardner traveled with the union army and was made honorary captain, and Timothy O'Sullivan joined the army. I have worked with these people before so I thought they would make good assistants after all the experience they had. But at about 1863 Gardner stopped working for me and opened his own business.

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"My greatest aim has been to advance the art in photography and to make it what I think I have, a great truthful medium history."
www.battlefields.org/learn/collections/photography-civil-war

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www.battlefields.org/learn/collections/photography-civil-war.

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How My Life Was Changed by The Civil War

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How My Life Was Changed by The Civil War

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The Civil War changed my life in many aspects. When the civil war struck it brought me fame and dignity which is what I deserved after how much I have worked and studied. My life was also changed negatively. When my business was not doing well, I didn't know why because I thought my work was well done and put a lot of time into it. But after I realized that people did not want to see their past and what they have been through. So that's when I became bankrupt and one the biggest hardships I went through.

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The new invention of primitive form of photographing called daguerreotype, advanced early photo technology. The camera had become an exciting new way to document people and events which is exactly what I did. In my shop I had tons of daguerreotype photos and saw that they were the easiest and most popular so I sold cases with these miniature pictures in it. This overall helped the quality of my pictures and made them more appealing.

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During one of Americas Bloodiest days, I sent Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan to the battle field, (who worked for me) and captured the whole thing.

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BACKGROUND : My goal was to get better at photography after I had been studying it my whole life and even went alone and went  through a surgery to get my eyesight back. So after I thought I was getting better, I moved to Washington D.C and opened a studio. This studio attracted wealthy patrons, and most of the pictures that I took were about the nations leaders and foreign dignities. Later, I became blind and had to get a team so I wouldn't lose my business.