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The Civil War in 50 objects / Harold Holzer and the New-York Historical Society ; with an introduction by Eric Foner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holzer, Harold.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Antiquities.
- United States.
- History.
- Antiquities.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Museums.
- Museums.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Anecdotes.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Collectibles.
- Collectibles.
- New-York Historical Society.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 380 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Civil War in fifty objects
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, [2013]
- Summary:
- Offers a visual perspective on the Civil War as reflected by artifacts ranging from a soldier's footlocker and the Emancipation Proclamation to leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier and Grant's handwritten terms of surrender at Appomattox.
- Contents:
- Chains that bind: slave shackles intended for a child, ca. 1800
- The human face of slavery: daguerreotype of Caesar, a slave, ca. 1850
- Old Kentucky home: Negro life at the South, painting by Eastman Johnson, 1859
- For sale to the highest bidder: The slave auction, sculpture by John Rogers, 1859
- Weapon of last resort: "John Brown" pike, ca. 1857-1859
- John Brown's body: John Brown's blessing, painting by Thomas Satterwhite Noble, 1867
- The animal himself: Right hand of Abraham Lincoln, cast by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1886, from 1860 original by Leonard Wells Volk
- Secession, New York style: To the people of Louisiana, their executive and representatives greeting, broadside, January 19, 1861
- Where the Civil War began: South-western angle of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, S.C., April 15, 1861, photographic print by Alma A. Pelot
- "Flagmania": flag, 1861
- The palmetto and the snake: Confederate palmetto flag, 1861
- To arms!: A great rush to join the 36th Regiment, New York Volunteers, woodcut, ca. 1862
- Uniform courage: Zouave uniform, ca. 1861-1863
- Divided loyalties: letter from Howard Cushing Wright to his mother, 1861
- Blarney from Bull Run?: Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the seat of war, painting by Louis Lang, 1862-1863
- "Reuniting" a shattered family: The Lincoln family in 1861, painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, ca. 1865
- Distant drums: snare drum, ca. 1860-1865
- Thoughts of the future - but where?: Thoughts of the future, painting by Edwin White, 1861
- There's something in it: half model of the USS Monitor, 1862
- Key to Confederate victory?: cipher key, ca. 1861
- Hidden glory: An episode of the war - the cavalry charge of Lt. Henry B. Hidden, painting by Victor Nehlig, 1862
- A diarist in action: diary of William Rothert, 1861-1862
- Tailor-made souvenirs of battle: military buttons mounted on card, 1860-1864
- An early call to recruit black troops: petition to Abraham Lincoln for recruitment of black troops, 1862
- If my name ever goes into history, it will be for this act: By the president of the United States of America. A proclamation, Abraham Lincoln, 1863
- A dentist drills Lincoln: Writing the Emancipation Proclamation, etching by Adalbert Johann Volck, 1863
- Frederick Douglass's call to arms: Men of color, to arms!, broadside by Frederick Douglass, 1863
- Suffered severely and behaved well: Emily J. Semmes to Paul Jones Semmes, letter, June 1, 1863
- Emancipated by war: Arrival at Chickasaw Bayou of Jefferson Davis' Negroes from his plantation on the Mississippi below Vicksburg, Mississippi, drawing by Frederick B. Schell, ca. 1863
- Wallpaper news for cave dwellers: The Daily Citizen, newsprint on wallpaper, 1863
- Wheel of misfortune: draft wheel, ca. 1863
- Charred survivor of an urban riot: Bible used at colored orphan asylum, ca. 1863
- Traveling light: footlocker with belongings, 1860-1890
- Learning to read, Dixie style: the first Dixie reader, 1864
- An ovation - and a banner - for black troops: presentation address of the ladies of the city of New York to the officers and men of the Twentieth United States Colored Troops, 1864
- A modern major general: Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885), painting by James Reid Lambdin, 1868
- All's fair: entry ticket for the New York Metropolitan Fair, 1864
- The faces of war: photograph album presented to Major M.S. Euen by Co. C, P.P., 1860-1869
- Strong opinions: entries from the diary of George Templeton Strong, 1864
- Prison art: Point Lookout sketches, watercolor drawings, 1864
- Tribute from a bad man?: Colored troops before Richmond, engraved silver, 1864-1865
- Political dirty tricks: The miscegenation ball, lithograph, 1864
- Lincoln's worst mistake?: campaign flag, 1864
- Counting votes, Lincoln's way: projection of November 1864 election, Abraham Lincoln, 1864
- Publish or perish?: Prison Times, newspaper, 1865
- The draft that really ended the war: Terms of surrender, April 9, 1865, Ulysses S. Grant
- Bloody good Friday: Letter from Clara Harris to Mary, April 25, 1865
- A sprig from Lincoln's bier: framed leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier, 1865
- A helping hand for the wounded veteran: autograph letter from Joe W. Mersereau to William Oland Bourne, 1865
- It winds the whole thing up: the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, manuscript, 1865.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-354) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780670014637
- 067001463X
- OCLC:
- 826860864
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