When You Go To War, You Take Your Family With You.
When You Go To War, You Take Your Family With You.
Today I saw a picture in Yahoo News taken of a family during the civil war. It’s meaning was powerful then, it still is today.
MJB
Rare Civil War photos document life between battles
America’s Civil War, whose 150th anniversary is marked on Tuesday, is so often described in battles — the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fort Sumter — that it may be easy to forget that the soldiers who fought in the four-year war had a lot of time between fighting. The rare photos seen below document just that — the time soldiers spent waiting, preparing, recovering or just living.
“We wanted to show more of the daily life of these people and remind people that they were living their lives in the middle of this horrible war and there was a lot of daily living going on,” says Kelly Knauer, editor of “TIME The Civil War: An Illustrated History.”
He points out that because of where camera technology was at the time, the in-between was much of what was photographed during the Civil War, since battle scene photos would often come out too blurry. The war marks one of the first times dead bodies were photographed. Another thing that comes out of some of the photos is a time truly left in the past, when family members and nearly entire towns would travel with the men to their battlegrounds.
As Knauer notes: “When they went to war, they took their whole families with them.”
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May we as Christian parents always remember, when we go to war against another brother or sister, we take our whole family with us!
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You are amazing and consistent!
kenneth bow
April 13, 2011 at 12:41 am
Thank you very much.
mballestero
April 13, 2011 at 1:31 am
This is a powerful thought.
Johnny King
April 17, 2011 at 10:50 am