"Rare, eerie photos of the Civil War from Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner"

[Houmes]

Great photo, Eva!

Blaine, how do you feel about the alleged photo of William Seward and Abraham Lincoln aboard the Wayanda. Real or fake?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...ayanda.JPG

Compelling, but not definitive. To me Lincoln's face appears to have been retouched. It was published in Lloyd Ostendorf's book Lincoln's Photographs: A Complete Album, previously published in editions with the rare books dealer Charles Hamilton. It's quite well known that Ostendorf and Hamilton quarreled over the authenticity of several images, which Ostendorf published as fact after Mr. Hamilton's death.