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Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War

Title: Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War / edited by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher.
Publication: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

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Description

258 pages : illustrations, photographs; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Uncivil wars

Uniform Title

Uncivil wars.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher -- Leaders. -- The "Gettysburg" Lincoln : the back story of a full-frontal photograph / Harold Holzer -- Robert E. Lee and Traveller in Petersburg / Ethan S. Rafuse -- "It is just what it is and nothing else": Grant after Cold Harbor / Joan Waugh -- Jeb Stuart in full finery / Gary W. Gallagher -- Three roads to Antietam: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Gardner / J. Matthew Gallman -- The weird one: Stonewall Jackson's Chancellorsville portrait / Kathryn Shively Meier -- The peculiar genius of William Tecumseh Sherman / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Soldiers. -- Looking at war : Union soldiers in the Peninsula Campaign / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Cary Robinson's last Christmas / Emory M. Thomas -- Three confederates at Gettysburg / Brooks D. Simpson -- Champ Ferguson / Daniel E. Sutherland -- Who are they? / Carol Reardon -- Civilians. -- A family in camp / Caroline E. Janney -- What's in a face : Annie Etheridge Hooks and civil work / Jane E. Schultz -- Refugee camp at Helena, Arkansas, 1863 / Thavolia Glymph -- Finding a new war in an old image / Susan Eva O'Donovan -- Victims. -- My dead Confederate / James Marten -- Andrew J. Russell and the stone wall at Fredericksburg / Earl J. Hess -- "A harvest of death" : negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, positive by Alexander Gardner / Stephen Cushman -- Colonel William P. Rogers and his comrades : postmortem at Corinth, Mississippi, October 1862 / T. Michael Parrish -- "Eye of history" : looking at Civil War prisoners of war / Judith A. Giesberg -- A dead horse / James I. Robertson Jr. -- Places. -- City Point, Virginia : the nerve center of the Union war effort / Elizabeth R. Varon -- The book or the gun? / Stephen Berry -- From home front to ruins : the Fredericksburg destruction / William A. Blair -- George N. Barnard, "Charleston, S.C. View of ruined buildings through porch of the Circular Church (150 Meeting Street)," 1865 / Megan Kate Nelson -- The Grand Review / Steven E. Woodworth.

Call Number

JFE 15-3463

ISBN

9780820348100
0820348104
9780820348117 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014039729

OCLC

892432272

Title

Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War / edited by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher.

Publisher

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Uncivil wars

Uncivil wars.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gallman, J. Matthew (James Matthew), editor.

Gallagher, Gary W., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-3463

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