Civil War Battlefields Then and Now® (Then and Now)A unique look at America's war between the states through the format of Then & Now photography, showing the major battlefields and fortifications, and how they look today. Documenting the rise and fall of the Confederacy between 1861 and 1865 was a new figure on the battlefield: the war photographer. The Civil War was the first major conflict to be recorded by cameras and men such as Mathew Brady, George Barnard and Timothy O'Sullivan made their names