Author: Frederic E. RayPublisher: Avery
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Alfred R. Waud, Civil War Artist
Author: Frederic E. RayPublisher: Avery
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Our Special Artist
Author: Frederic E. RayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
An examination of Waud's work in Frederic E. Ray's handsome and well-written book suggests that Waud's accomplishments were in many ways equal to those of [Winslow] Homer and that in sheer productivity and tenacity, he was a better war correspondent than his more famous colleague....Waud traveled and lived with the Army of the Potomac from Bull Run to Appomattox and made all his drawings, often inscibed with detailed directions to the engravers, in the field....The plates amply demonstrate Waud's amazing skill for making pictorial sense out of the conclusion of battle....Ray provides a thorough and intersting account of Waud's wartime work.
Our Special Artist
Author: Frederic E. RayLiving Hell
Author: Michael C. C. AdamsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421412217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Tourists flock to battlefields, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who cannot ultimately simulate the horrors of war. In Living Hell, Adams uses the voices of actual participants on the firing line or in the hospital ward to create a virtual historical reenactment. Perhaps because the United States has not seen conventional war on its own soil since 1865, the collective memory has faded, so that we have sanitized and romanticized the experience of the Civil War. Living Hell presents a stark portrait of the human costs of the Civil War and gives readers a more accurate appreciation of its profound and lasting consequences. Adams examines the sharp contrast between the expectations of recruits versus the realities of dirt and exposure, poor diet, malnutrition, and disease. He describes the slaughter produced by close-order combat, the difficulties of cleaning up the battlefields-- often tens of thousands of dead and wounded--and the resulting psychological damage to survivors. Drawing extensively on letters and memoirs of individual soldiers, Adams assembles vivid accounts of the distress they faced daily. Providing a powerful counterpoint to Civil War glorification, Living Hell echoes William Tecumseh Sherman's comment that war is cruelty and cannot be refined"--From publisher description.
Alfred R. Waud and Theodore R. Davis
Author: The Civil War
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
They Were There
Author: Philip Van Doren SternPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Changes in Law and Society during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Author: Christian G. SamitoPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809328895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The first comprehensive collection of legal history documents from the Civil War and Reconstruction, this volume shows the profound legal changes that occurred during the Civil War era and highlights how law, society, and politics inextricably mixed and set American legal development on particular paths that were not predetermined. Editor Christian G. Samito has carefully selected excerpts from legislation, public and legislative debates, court cases, investigations of white supremacist violence in the South, and rare court-martial records, added his expert analysis, and illustrated the selections with telling period artwork to create an outstanding resource that demonstrates the rich and important legal history of the era.
Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865
Author: Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photographs
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Bits of Gossip
Author: Rebecca Harding DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description