Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War /
Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War /
edited by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher.
- 258 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm.
- Uncivil wars .
- Uncivil wars. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / 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 / Soldiers. -- Looking at war : Union soldiers in the Peninsula Campaign / Cary Robinson's last Christmas / Three confederates at Gettysburg / Champ Ferguson / Who are they? / 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 / 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 / Places. -- City Point, Virginia : the nerve center of the Union war effort / The 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 / J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher -- Harold Holzer -- Ethan S. Rafuse -- Joan Waugh -- Gary W. Gallagher -- J. Matthew Gallman -- Kathryn Shively Meier -- Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Emory M. Thomas -- Brooks D. Simpson -- Daniel E. Sutherland -- Carol Reardon -- Caroline E. Janney -- Jane E. Schultz -- Thavolia Glymph -- Susan Eva O'Donovan -- James Marten -- Earl J. Hess -- Stephen Cushman -- T. Michael Parrish -- Judith A. Giesberg -- James I. Robertson Jr. -- Elizabeth R. Varon -- Stephen Berry -- William A. Blair -- Megan Kate Nelson -- Steven E. Woodworth.
This set of essays by twenty-seven historians of the Civil War describes a wide array of the war's photographs, examining them in unfamiliar ways.
0820348104 9780820348100
2014039729
Photography in historiography--Case studies.
War photography--History--United States--19th century.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / 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 / Soldiers. -- Looking at war : Union soldiers in the Peninsula Campaign / Cary Robinson's last Christmas / Three confederates at Gettysburg / Champ Ferguson / Who are they? / 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 / 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 / Places. -- City Point, Virginia : the nerve center of the Union war effort / The 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 / J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher -- Harold Holzer -- Ethan S. Rafuse -- Joan Waugh -- Gary W. Gallagher -- J. Matthew Gallman -- Kathryn Shively Meier -- Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Emory M. Thomas -- Brooks D. Simpson -- Daniel E. Sutherland -- Carol Reardon -- Caroline E. Janney -- Jane E. Schultz -- Thavolia Glymph -- Susan Eva O'Donovan -- James Marten -- Earl J. Hess -- Stephen Cushman -- T. Michael Parrish -- Judith A. Giesberg -- James I. Robertson Jr. -- Elizabeth R. Varon -- Stephen Berry -- William A. Blair -- Megan Kate Nelson -- Steven E. Woodworth.
This set of essays by twenty-seven historians of the Civil War describes a wide array of the war's photographs, examining them in unfamiliar ways.
0820348104 9780820348100
2014039729
Photography in historiography--Case studies.
War photography--History--United States--19th century.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works.