The 1864 Paper by a US Army Officer Who Envisioned the Army's Photography Bureau
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Captain Edward Carlisle Boynton, a West Point educated veteran of the Mexican War who returned to teach at his alma mater during the Civil War, wrote a paper published in 1864 that called for the establishment of a military Bureau of Photography. He was a man ahead of his time—by more than a half-century.
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