About Battlefield Images

Battlefield Images was created so I could share with a wider audience my passions for photography and the study of the Civil War.  I hope you find it both enlightening and inspiring.   The site also serves as a door to a new business, so come on in and visit the Print Store for a fine art print.  Images are also available for editorial or commercial use.

About Dan

Thanks for taking some time to learn a little bit about me.  I live in Northern Virginia, near many of the Civil War battlefields whose pictures appear here.  I’ve been interested in photography since I was a teenager in the ‘60s, when my father set up a darkroom in the bathroom and taught me the basics.  For five years during my high school and college years, I worked as an assistant to the owner of a studio in the small town of Logan in southeastern Ohio. After college I began a career in the Marine Corps, serving mostly as a financial management officer in Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Okinawa, Missouri, and California. I swapped my uniform for a civilian suit in 1994, but I still work for the Marine Corps in financial management. 

My photographic interests have ranged from photos of my family and the places I’ve visited over the years, to auto racing and the drivers and personalities of the sport,  to images of nature and of historic places, especially of Civil War battlefields as shown here at Battlefield Images.  I use primarily Nikon equipment, including cameras, lenses, and film scanner. Most of the images on this site are from scanned transparencies; I’m also delving into the world of digital SLR.

My Civil War interests began over 35 years ago with a term paper on the Battle of Antietam for a college American History course. That led me to purchase and read Bruce Catton’s three volume Centennial History of the Civil War and Douglas Southall Freeman’s Lee’s Lieutenants. When these great historians quoted from primary source material written by the participants themselves, I would read the footnotes and wonder about the rest of their story. That led to more buying and more reading, and I now have a Civil War library of almost 700 volumes.  I even began to write a book myself, although that project is currently on hold.  Several years ago I completed the “fun part” of researching diaries, letters, unit histories, and personal reminiscences.  I then found that the actual writing requires a lot of dedication, and although I began that effort in earnest, other interests began decaying the time I devoted to writing.  I will finish the book one day.  By the way, it’s about the 1861-1862 Winter (or Romney) Campaign of Stonewall Jackson.

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Fine Art Photography of Civil War Battlefields by Dan Jenkins