Format:
Online-Ressource (270 p)
ISBN:
9780820348100
Series Statement:
UnCivil Wars Ser
Content:
Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the Civil War have explored military, cultural, political, African American, women's, and environmental history. The essays describe a wide array of photographs and present an eclectic approach to the assignment, organized by topic: Leaders, Soldiers, Civilians, Victims, and Places. Readers will rediscov
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART 1. LEADERS; The "Gettysburg" Lincoln: The Back Story of a Full-Frontal Photograph; Robert E. Lee and Traveller in Petersburg; "It Is Just What It Is and Nothing Else": Grant after Cold Harbor; Jeb Stuart in Full Finery; Three Roads to Antietam: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Gardner; The Weird One: Stonewall Jackson's Chancellorsville Portrait; The Peculiar Genius of William Tecumseh Sherman; PART 2. SOLDIERS; Looking at War: Union Soldiers in the Peninsula Campaign; Cary Robinson's Last Christmas; Three Confederates at Gettysburg
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Champ FergusonWho Are They?; PART 3. CIVILIANS; A Family in Camp; What's in a Face: Annie Etheridge Hooks and Civil Work; Refugee Camp at Helena, Arkansas, 1863; Finding a New War in an Old Image; PART 4. VICTIMS; My Dead Confederate; Andrew J. Russell and the Stone Wall at Fredericksburg; "A Harvest of Death": Negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, Positive by Alexander Gardner; Colonel William P. Rogers and His Comrades: Postmortem at Corinth, Mississippi, October 1862; "Eye of History": Looking at Civil War Prisoners of War; A Dead Horse; PART 5. PLACES
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City Point, Virginia: The Nerve Center of the Union War EffortThe Book or the Gun?; From Home Front to Ruins: The Fredericksburg Destruction; George N. Barnard, "Charleston, S.C. View of ruined buildings through porch of the Circular Church (150 Meeting Street)," 1865; The Grand Review; Suggested Readings; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820348117
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820348100
Additional Edition:
Print version Lens of War : Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War
Language:
English
Keywords:
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