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This past December, Civil War enthusiast, Carl Jennings of Berthoud, CO, was online gathering photographic material for his “American Civil War Library,” when he discovered three miscataloged photographs taken at the scene of Lincoln’s second inaugural address.

“My first thought was ‘No way!’” said Jennings, a former high-tech executive from South Carolina, who is not a professional scholar of American history, but has made Civil War collecting his life’s work. While many images of the Lincoln presidency exist, it is extremely rare to find a “new” image.

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