Share 'New York's Civil War Soldiers – Photographs of Dr. R. B. Bontecou, Words of Walt Whitman'

Presented in collaboration with The Burns Archive, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. Photographs of wounded Civil War soldiers from New York regiments, on display for the first time since the 19th century, show the supreme sacrifices made by Americans and their families in sobering detail. Captioned by quotations from Specimen Days, Walt Whitman's memoir of…