Jump to: Background Suggestions for Teachers Additional Resources This resource was created by Mark Sanchez, the 2013 Liljenquist Family Fellow at the Library of Congress Although the Civil War passed into history generations ago, the faces of those who fought in the war are still with us. Hundreds of thousands of photographs were taken during the war years, some experts estimate. Some of those photos were of officers, battlefields, and political leaders, but many of them were portraits of indiv