The Civil War in color photos (pictures)

[mfcorey1]

The American Civil War in color

On February 1 it will be 150 years since President Abraham Lincoln signed a resolution outlawing slavery in the United States. Click through to learn the story of the Civil War as seen through these rare colorized photographs.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/photos/the-civil-war-in-color-photos/ss-AA8Eh6X

[SoapBox]

1. I highly recommend going through the pictures.

...and the South keeps fighting (and no, I do not support it.)

[Fred Sanders]

2. Stunning. Hundreds of years later and still war has not been banned and criminalized.

All the graveyards of war have looked exactly the same, full of young men in their prime.

[erronis]

3. And the sons of the oligarchs did not lie down in these graves

Always fought by somebody else's children.

[elias49]

5. Nope. Not banned. Redesigned to protect the sensibilities of the general public.

'Embedded' reporters for the perfect pics.
'Entertainment' news on the major TV channels.
'Bloodless' drone strikes - remote controlled war.

[madokie]

4. This is interesting to me

My grandfather was a Union soldier during the Civil War. His day was a slave owner but had given his slaves their freedom before the war. As the story is they pretty much stayed on with him and co-existed.

[appalachiablue]

6. Interesting colorized photos. The one of seated Union Gen. Benj. Butler in a military tent in

New Orleans I hadn't seen. As a lawyer, Gen. Butler applied the use of contraband of war, a legal term for seizure of property, to former slaves who fled to Union lines in Hampton Roads, Va. when he was stationed there in 1862. The contraband blacks received federal protection through the legal status designated by the military. The brutal practice of slavery profited economic systems on two continents, the northern and southern US and Britain and France primarily, for 250 years until Lincoln's action and US Civil War that claimed more than 600,000 lives. Vestiges of the damage of the slavery system and war remain. As a child my mother saw Veterans both North and South in Philadelphia and Richmond.

[raccoon]

7. Those photos make it seem so recent. Which really it was.

I had a great-grandfather in the Confederate Army. And no, I am not a
centenarian.