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Keywords: outdoor In 1910 an agent for The Reviews of Reviews Company, New York, publisher of The Photographic History of the Civil War, purchased most of the surviving negatives Baton Rouge photographer Andrew Lytle had created during the Federal occupation of Baton Rouge. The agent also spoke to Howard Lytle about the role his father had played in the war. From that conversation and the subsequent write up in The Photographic History the story of Lytle as “camera spy for the Confederacy” was born. Other than this tale, told fifty years after the fact to a journalist, there is no record any espionage by Lytle. (Read more about Andrew David Lytle and other photographers of the American Civil War. [Wikipedia]) Text from Photographic History of the Civil War: "This remarkable photograph is here published for the first time. It is but one of the many made by A. D. Lytle in Baton Rouge during its occupancy by the Federals. With a courage and skill as remarkable as that of Brady himself this Confederate photographer risked his life to obtain negatives of Federal batteries, cavalry regiments and camps, lookout towers, and the vessels of Farragut and Porter, in fact of everything that might be of the slightest use in informing the Confederate Secret Service of the strength of the Federal occupation of Baton Rouge. In Lytle's little shop on Main Street these negatives remained in oblivion for near half a century. War photographs were long regarded with extreme disfavor in the South and the North knew nothing of Lytle's collection, which has at last been unearthed by the editors of the "Photographic History." The value of Lytle's work to the Confederate Secret Service is apparent from this view, clear in every detail, of the Federal artillery drilling on the Parade Grounds of the Arsenal. The strength of the force, the number of the guns, the condition of the men, are all revealed at a glance. Many other " Lytle " photographs—gunboats, camps, infantry and cavalry—appear in the present work." The Photographic History of the Civil War Vol. 1 by Francis Trevelyan Miller, 1877-1959; Robert S. Lanier (Robert Sampson) Published by The Review of Reviews Company, New York, 1911 In 1910 an agent for The Reviews of Reviews Company, New York, publisher of The Photographic History of the Civil War, purchased most of the surviving negatives Baton Rouge photographer Andrew Lytle had created during the Federal occupation of Baton Rouge. The agent also spoke to Howard Lytle about the role his father had played in the war. From that conversation and the subsequent write up in The Photographic History the story of Lytle as “camera spy for the Confederacy” was born. Other than this tale, told fifty years after the fact to a journalist, there is no record any espionage by Lytle. (Read more about Andrew David Lytle and other photographers of the American Civil War. [Wikipedia]) Text from Photographic History of the Civil War: "This remarkable photograph is here published for the first time. It is but one of the many made by A. D. Lytle in Baton Rouge during its occupancy by the Federals. With a courage and skill as remarkable as that of Brady himself this Confederate photographer risked his life to obtain negatives of Federal batteries, cavalry regiments and camps, lookout towers, and the vessels of Farragut and Porter, in fact of everything that might be of the slightest use in informing the Confederate Secret Service of the strength of the Federal occupation of Baton Rouge. In Lytle's little shop on Main Street these negatives remained in oblivion for near half a century. War photographs were long regarded with extreme disfavor in the South and the North knew nothing of Lytle's collection, which has at last been unearthed by the editors of the "Photographic History." The value of Lytle's work to the Confederate Secret Service is apparent from this view, clear in every detail, of the Federal artillery drilling on the Parade Grounds of the Arsenal. The strength of the force, the number of the guns, the condition of the men, are all revealed at a glance. Many other " Lytle " photographs—gunboats, camps, infantry and cavalry—appear in the present work." The Photographic History of the Civil War Vol. 1 by Francis Trevelyan Miller, 1877-1959; Robert S. Lanier (Robert Sampson) Published by The Review of Reviews Company, New York, 1911
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