Research Catalog

Title

Portraits of conflict : a photographic history of Tennessee in the Civil War / Richard B. McCaslin ; with a foreword by the general editors, Bobby Roberts and Carl Moneyhon.

Author

McCaslin, Richard B.

Publication

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2007.

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Description

xiii, 398 pages : illustrations, portraits; 29 cm.

Summary

"It's one thing to understand that over twenty-thousand Confederate and Union soldiers died at the Battle of Murfreesboro. It's quite another to study an ambrotype portrait of twenty-year-old private Frank B. Crosthwait, dressed in his Sunday best, looking somberly at the camera. In a tragically short time, he'll be found on the battlefield, mortally wounded, still clutching the knotted pieces of handkerchief he used in a hopeless attempt to stop the bleeding from his injuries." "Private Crosthwait's image is one of more than 250 portraits - many never before published - to be found in the highly anticipated Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War. The eighth in the distinguished Portraits of Conflict series, this volume joins the personal and the public to provide a uniquely rich portrayal of Tennesseans - in uniforms both blue and gray - who fought and lost their lives in the Civil War."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Portraits of conflict series

Uniform Title

Portraits of conflict.

Alternative Title

Photographic history of Tennessee in the Civil War

Subjects

• Tennessee > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Pictorial works
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-384) and index.

ISBN

• 1557288313 (casebound : alk. paper)
• 9781557288318 (casebound : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006036513

OCLC

• OCM76167072
• 76167072
• SCSB-5349926

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries