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They are done on modern Kodak paper so I wonder if someone downloaded the images and print them out or such colorized pictures are available for sale?

 

reenactors

 

Yes, modern photos of reenactors.

 

Make that 3 for reenactors.

 

shutterstock.com has 33 pages of photographs of Civil War reenactments.

Just for clarity, if you were thinking these were actual images from the 1860s, the photographic processes of the time were not fast enough to record active battle scenes. That is why so many of the photographs are of the dead lying on the field. Photographers such as Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner came out following the battle and recorded the aftermath. (Their own safety was also a factor, of course.)

 

Here is a photo of "real" reenactors, July 3rd 1913, survivors of Picketts charge on 50th anniversary of that day in 1863 at Gettysburg Pa.

 

In 1913 the US government held a 50th anniversary at Gettysburg, it lasted 3 days. Thousands of survivors bivouacked on the old battlefield swapping stories, looking up old comrades. The climax was to be a reenactment of Pickett's charge (photo above). As the rebel yell rang out and the old confederates started forward again across the field, " a moan, a gigantic gasp of unbelief, rose from the union men on Cemetary Ridge, It was then an onlooker said, that the yankees, unable to restrain themselves longer, burst from behind the stone wall and flung themselves upon their former enemies, not in mortal combat but embracing them in brotherly love and affection."