Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War /
edited by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher.
- Athens : The University of Georgia Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
- Uncivil Wars .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Part I. 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 / 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 II. Soldiers -- Looking at war: Union soldiers in the Peninsula Campaign / Cary Robinson's last Christmas / Confederates at Gettysburg / Champ Ferguson / Who are they? / Part III. 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 IV. 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 V. 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.
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War photography--History--United States--19th century. Photography in historiography--Case studies.