John Wood was the U.S. government's first official photographer. He took the photograph of
Lincoln's First Inauguration as well as the inauguration of
James Buchanan in 1857, thought to be the first known photograph of a Presidential inauguration.[1][2][3] Wood made the 1857 exposure in four seconds.[4]
Titian Ramsay Peale, who had been experimenting with photography,[7] introduced Meigs to Wood on May 13, 1856, and Meigs hired Wood the next day.[8][9]
According to Roy Meredith's Mr. Lincoln’s Cameraman,[11]Matthew Brady himself personally accompanied General
George B. McClellan’s
Peninsular Campaign into Virginia at the beginning of April 1862, departing Fortress Monroe with Gibson,
David B. Woodbury, and John Wood, plus two mobile darkrooms.[12] Photographer George Barnard was also sent along by Gardner, who had been managing Brady's Washington studio.[13]
^Ruminski, Jarret (1970). A Terrible Fascination:' Civil War Photography and the Advent of Photographic Realism. Youngstown State University, M.A. in History Thesis.
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