This hourlong event was part of the lincoln forums annual symposium in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Part of the lincoln forums annual similar symposium in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to be here again. Our first thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to be here again. Our first speaker this morning robert wilson, the author of a new wellreceived book on Matthew Brady. Mr. Wilson has written for many prominent newspapers and journals and held editorial posts at many of those same institutions. Hes currently editor of the american scholar. Hes written two previous books as well as a certain somewhere writers on the place they remember. Hell be talking about mathew brady today. Brady is an interesting character. Weve all looked at dozens, probably hundreds of bradys photographs. I suspect many of you join me mathew brady, the man himself, who took much of these photographs. And consequently shaped so much of what we understand about the war. He not only
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Now on booktv Robert Wilson recounts the life of civil war era photographer mathew brady. The first war to provide a photographic history was covered by brady and his team of photographers who took over 10,000 photographs. This is a little under an hour. Thank you, bradley. Its a great honor to be in this bookstore. City of constitutions. Its one of the great ones. T so wonderful to see it driving under bradley and i hope well dont thrive for many years to come. I just want to say give a nod to one person in the audience, my great friend, pat ferguson, who wrote a wonderful book about the civil war freedom rising. T a great book. If you dont know the book, you should. So i hope its for sale here somewhere. [laughter] it occurred me to write about mathew brady about eight years ago as i was finishing the book about Clarence King. After the civil war, king lead one of the great scientific surveys of the west, and one of the people he asked to accompany him was Timothy O Sullivan who was