Hi Megan,

Thank you for the feedback!!  

I see where you're coming from on the wet plate negative and the history of the Civil War.  I'll keep that in mind when we get to the final project.

Regarding the propaganda, I thought I had covered that pretty well.  I'll look at that again and see if I can tighten that up.

This photo is not discredited; many of the ones attributed to him are.  

Especially since he didn't like the uglier side of battle.  That might stem from the fact that he almost died at the Battle of Bull Run; he and his assistants barely escaped and all of the glass negatives were destroyed.  Or it could be that he just didn't like the look or smell of dead bodies rotting in the sun.  

Brady certainly didn't mind the 'fame' he received from photos like "A Harvest of Death".  In fact, he was hoping to make a good living after the war on those photos by hanging them in his gallery.  That didn't work out for him; he died in a pauper's hospital ~ one source said from alcoholism.

Brady received the credit for as many photos as he did because the photographers that took the pictures worked for him.