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Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War
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.
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Uncivil wars
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher
- Part 1. 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
- Part 2. 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
- Part 3. 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
- Part 4. 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.
- Part 5. 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.