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Through photographs, writings, and live action, this series offers a detailed and intimate glimpse at the real lives of those persons who fought and died for their side. In a series of short vignettes, volume three looks at Carte-de-Visite photography, which was used extensively to document the war. Through diary excerpts and letters, soldiers describe premonitions of death and the experience of being under fire while those next to them lay mortally wounded. Narrator and historian Michael Kraus examines a standard Federal backpack, which contained all the essentials for a soldier's survival.