over 200,000 that joined the navy, the infantry, artillery, .nd cavalry if you have fresh recruits coming in in 1863. north or the union began to win more battles. all major role in the overall union victory. -- a major role in the overall union victory. >> can you tell me your name? >> i'm working on the civil war project. i have been photographing the wars battlefields throughout the country. attending reenactments of a 19th-century photographer, photographing those reenactments as if the photographer was in the battle with the soldiers. >> fly a pinhole? >> i find that the pinhole camera, there is no lens on this camera. it creates these blurry soft that i believe lends some imagining to this period. pictures yout the can't tell what century you are in. this whole idea that there is the civil war landscape. they have been protected for 100 something years now. many of the reenactors are descendents of -- .here is a coastal connection to commemorate the service of your great-great-grandfather. i realize i needed to become a reenactor to get the pictures. i became a reenactor to do this