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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Chickamauga (Ga.) battlefield: Lee & Gordon's Mills (hover on image)


THEN: War Dept., Office of Chief Signal Officer, circa-1864| National Archives | NOW:: John Banks, May 25, 2018.
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Saturday, April 21, 2018

Antietam: James Gibson's photo of Middle Bridge (hover on image)


THEN: James Gibson, September 1862 | Library of Congress | NOW:: John Banks, April 21, 2018.
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Friday, April 6, 2018

Monday, February 19, 2018

Antietam: 16th Connecticut monument dedication in 1894 (hover on image)


THEN: William Tipton, Oct. 11, 1894 | NOW:: John Banks, Feb. 12, 2018.
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Friday, February 16, 2018

Antietam: 1889 view Dunker Church on Hagerstown Pike (hover on image)

THEN: J.H. Wagoner, circa-1889 (Connecticut State Library) | NOW:: John Banks, Feb. 14, 2018.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Monday, November 6, 2017

Fox's Gap on South Mountain: Jesse Reno monument (hover on image)

THEN: Fred Wilder Cross, circa-1920s, William Christen collection | NOW:: John Banks, Nov. 2, 2017.
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Monday, October 16, 2017

Charleston Harbor: African-American at Castle Pinckney (hover on image)


THEN image: Unknown photographer, undoubtedly post-war, South Carolina Historical Society
NOW image: John Banks, Oct. 15, 2017.

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Monday, September 4, 2017

Antietam: 8th Pennsylvania Reserves monument dedication (hover on image)


THEN image: Unknown photographer, Sept. 17, 1906, Second Brigade of the Pennsylvania Reserves at Antietam.
NOW image: John Banks, Aug. 27, 2017.

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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Antietam: Philadelphia Brigade Park in West Woods (hover on image)


THEN image: Unknown photographer, circa 1935 | Antietam National Battlefield Library
NOW image: John Banks, Aug. 27, 2017

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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Antietam: Union burial party on the David R. Miller farm (hover on image)


THEN image: Alexander Gardner, September 1862,  Library of Congress | NOW image: John Banks, July 2, 2017

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Sunday, July 9, 2017

Antietam: 16th Connecticut monument dedication in 1894 (hover on image)


THEN image: Unknown photographer, Oct. 11, 1894 | Courtesy Gil Barrett via Stephen Recker,
Rare Images of Antietam And the Photographers Who Took Them
NOW image: John Banks, July 2, 2017

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Antietam: Union soldiers on Burnside Bridge (hover on image)


THEN image: James Gibson, September 1862 | Library of Congress
NOW image: John Banks, July 3, 2017

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Monday, July 3, 2017

Antietam: 14th Connecticut vets at William Roulette farm (hover on image)


THEN image: Unknown photographer, 1894 (via Tad Sattler)
NOW image: John Banks, July 3, 2017

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Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Near Cold Harbor, Va.: Union cavalry at Old Church Hotel (hover on image)


THEN image: Timothy O'Sullivan, June 4, 1864, Library of Congress | NOW image: John Banks, June 5, 2017

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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Antietam: Battle-damaged Lutheran church on Main Street (hover on image)


THEN image: Alexander Gardner | Library of Congress collection, Sept. 21 or 22, 1862
NOW image: Google Street View, September 2012

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Saturday, March 25, 2017

Cedar Creek: Union vets at Belle Grove mansion in 1886 (hover on image)


THEN image:Unknown photographer, U.S. Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. via NPS | 1886
NOW image: John Banks, March 21, 2017

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Sunday, March 19, 2017

Spotsylvania Courthouse: Gen. John Sedgwick monument (hover on image)


THEN image: Unknown photographer, late 19th or early 20th century
NOW image: John Banks, March 19, 2017

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Monday, March 13, 2017

Antietam: William McKinley monument in 1925 (hover on image)


THEN image: Library of Congress collection, 1925
NOW image: Laura Van Alstyne Rowland, March 13, 2017

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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Gettysburg: General George Meade's headquarters (hover on image)


THEN image: Alexander Gardner | Library of Congress collection, July 1863
NOW image: Google Street View, July 2012

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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Gettysburg: 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry monument (hover on image)


THEN image: Unknown photographer, Sept. 2, 1890 | NOW image: John Banks, Feb. 13, 2017
Civil War veteran Joseph Lindermuth (second from right in "Then" image) served in the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Gettysburg: 9th Massachusetts monument dedication (hover on image)


THEN image: William Tipton at foot of Big Round Top | June 1885
NOW image: John Banks, Feb. 13, 2017

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Friday, December 9, 2016

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Charleston, S.C.: War-damaged Hibernian Hall (hover on image)

THEN image: Library of Congress collection, April 1865 | NOW image: Google Street View, January 2016

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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Antietam: Rohrbach/Burnside Bridge (hover on image)

THEN image: Alexander Gardner or James Gibson, Sept. 21, 1862, Library of Congress collection
NOW image: John Banks, Sept. 18, 2016

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Saturday, November 5, 2016

Gettysburg: Union breastworks on Little Round Top (hover on image)

THEN image: Timothy O'Sullivan, July 6, 1863, Library of Congress collection
NOW image: John Banks, Oct. 22, 2016

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Friday, November 4, 2016

Gettysburg: Fallen Confederate on Slaughter Pen boulders (hover on image)

THEN image: Alexander Gardner, July 6, 1863, Library of Congress collection
NOW image: John Banks, Oct. 22, 2016

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Gettysburg: Fallen young Confederate in Devil's Den (hover on image)

THEN image: Timothy O'Sullivan, July 6, 1863, Library of Congress collection
NOW image: John Banks, Oct. 23, 2016

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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Gettysburg: Confederate dead at edge of Rose Woods (hover on image)

THEN image: Alexander Gardner, July 5, 1863, Library of Congress collection
NOW image: John Banks, Oct. 23, 2016

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Monday, October 3, 2016

Antietam: 124th Pennsylvania vets at monument dedication (hover on image)

THEN image: Unknown photographer, Sept. 17, 1904, History of the 124th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers;
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Sunday, October 2, 2016

Antietam: Dr. Otho J. Smith farm/hospital (hover on image)

THEN image: Alexander Gardner, about Sept. 20, 1862 (Library of Congress); NOW image: John Banks, Sept. 17. 2016
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Monday, August 1, 2016

Charleston, S.C.: Union soldiers on Meeting Street (hover on image)

THEN image: Library of Congress collection, April 1865 | NOW image: Google Street View, January 2016

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