Lad 4

1. I learned that the camera which was availabe by 1861 was able to capture battle pictures which made the war seem more modern. Furthermore, many historians have proclaimed it the first modern war.

2. Another thing I learned was that George Washington had his former aide-in-camp, Lt. Col. David Humphrey, write a biography on Washington. George Washington aided Humphrey by recalling his role in the French and Indian war.

3. Another thing I found interesting was that the general American public has the impression that the REvolutionary War wasn't very bad, with low casualties and all together misery didn't exist.

4. By 1836 all the members of the revolutionary war and revolution were gone and so since then, history and memories about the war has all come from people who had not lived through the actual events.

5. I was surprised to read that the most popular paintings of the American Revolution give a rather different view of events. These paintings depict various famous battle themes yet none actually depict battle scenes. The paintings have a "sanitized image" of the revolutionary war greatly differ compared to photographs of Civil War battlefields which show mangled corpes and worn out soldiers.