BOOKSIconic photos from Mathew Brady, Civil War photographerIn his new biography Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation (Bloomsbury), Robert Wilson offers a portrait of the famed Civil War photographer. Flip through iconic images from the book.BloomsburyHenry James Sr. and Henry James Jr. (August 1854).HOUGHTON LIBRARY, MANUSCRIPT DEPARTMENT, HARVARD UNIVERSITYJefferson Davis while a U.S. Senator (circa 1860).Library Of CongressMembers of the Seventh New York Militia Regiment at Camp Cameron in Washington, D.C. (1861), photograph by George N. Barnard and C. O. Bostwick.Library Of CongressA federal encampment at Cumberland Landing on the Virginia Peninsula (May 1862), photograph by James F. Gibson.Library Of CongressMathew Brady at Gettysburg in a photograph erroneously titled “The Wheat-Field in Which General Reynolds Was Shot” (July 1863).Library Of CongressStereograph of three Confederate prisoners on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg (July 1863).Library Of CongressNear the beginning of the siege of Petersburg, Mathew Brady stands (at the middle of this photograph), hands in pockets, with a battery of the First Pennsylvania Light Artillery (June 21, 1864).Library Of CongressGeneral Robert E. Lee in Richmond the day after he returned home from Appomattox (April 16, 1865).National ArchivesFeatured Weekly Ad