Bet you never learned this in your U.S. History class. Travel to our link in bio to explore more Civil War-era photos by one of the featured photographers. 📷 📷 📷 Featured artworks: 1. Recovery, without Amputation, after a Gunshot Wound through the Right Knee-joint, July 9, 1865, possibly William H. Bell. Getty Museum 2. Self-portrait preparing a Collodion plate, 1856–59, Capt. Horatio Ross. Getty Museum 3. President Lincoln, United States Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, near Antietam, October 4, 1862, Alexander Gardner. Getty Museum 4. Group of Union Officers, 1861, Alexander Gardner. Getty Museum 5. Embalming Building near Fredericksburg, Va., negative December 1862; print about 1880, attributed to Mathew B. Brady, Taylor & Huntington. Getty Museum 6. John L. Burns, the old Hero of Gettysburgh, recovering from his wounds, 1862–64, studio of Mathew B. Brady. Getty Museum 7. S.R. Willis, gunshot wound left side, about 1865, attributed to William H. Bell. Getty Museum 8. J.L. Secord. H.5. Mich Cav. 20948. d. [Civil War victim], about 1865, attributed to William H. Bell. Getty Museum 9. Successful Intermediate Excision of the Head and Three Inches of the Shaft of Right Humerus for Gunshot Fracture, 1864, possibly William H. Bell. Getty Museum 10. Gunshot Fracture of the Shaft of the Right Femur, United with Great Shortening and Deformity, August 15, 1865, possibly William H. Bell. Getty Museum 11. Amputation of Both Thighs for Gunshot Injury, 1865, possibly William H. Bell. Getty Museum 12. No. 3. Case of John Frederick U.S.N. with Compensatory Apparatus By E.D. Hudson, M.D., about 1864, attributed to William H. Bell. Getty Museum