matthew brady. ready by this time, with -- brady by this time, we think he was suffering from a site problem. -- sight problem but that is ok. his name was synonymous with photography. you would actually say, i'm going to have my brady made. i do a good talk but i don't pick you up or say, i'm going to do a gorman. -- i don't think you're ever going to say, i'm going to do a gorman. it is like the where's waldo of the civil war. he loves to put himself in the image. it becomes fun to pick him out. the long, black coat. we will see him again. capital square was and is a photographic mecca. you have to take a picture of the governor's mansion. look at that. the trees are starting to come into bloom. a bit of a trick. there he is. this one, there is so much to like. gardner's crew shooting towards old city hall. a crowd of union soldiers resting in the trees. here they all are. hanging out, chilling out. what is going on here? two hatless yankees running round capital square -- pantless yankees running

if matthew brady is photographing you behind your home, it is over. this is the general working with brady to deliberately construct an image that will go around the world. what is interesting about this it is funny. every guy knows, white socks black shoes. don't do it. that's probably why in the margin, the photographer scratched, don't use. look at them constructing the image together. the general doesn't look particularly good, so don't use it. let stand him up and get one that is better. not quite there, though. move sir, thank you. just so the head is in the middle of the cross. the image that has gone around the world. even this has a forensic secret. the devil is in the details. some angry union soldier scratched here, devil. the image was scratched april 20. there were union soldiers that felt that way about lee. sure. remember how we felt after 9/11? scared, fearful, angry? same thing. that is what we and brady are conspiring to take on. it is over. you don't have to hurt us anymore. so, these images, as we have seen time and again, it is so

he had matthew brady, a photograph of the time, to take his photograph. he would take head shots of people in this relatively new situation called photography and he realized when he saw lincoln, lincoln was not a good-looking man. he showed up with wrinkled clothes, his wrinkles were obvious, so brady pulled the camera back. this was before a famous speech that lincoln gave at cooper union in new york. you can see in the photograph what brady, the photographer did, he took a full-length picture of lincoln, and you could not see the close-up of how he looks. he had his hand on a book, to give himself an erudite base. that picture was used for many years after that as the presence official photograph in many ways. when he grew a beard, that photograph was actually reattached to put a beard on him. the picture was so famous. but lincoln, after he died, is when his celebrity really triggered. after his assassination what was happening then is he was becoming a figure of almost spiritual importance particularly in the african-american community because of the