Considering the time the photos were taken they are primarily referring to the effects of the American Civil War and the Crimean War. These are the expression of the photographer on how they understand and how would they want others to understand the war.
Fenton is mainly giving a justification to the result of the war versus the British and the Russian in the Crimean Peninsula. The name of the photo was primarily borrowed in the book of Psalms in the Bible by the British Army. The photo was mainly portrayed by a valley of cannonballs printed in black
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