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Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War / edited by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Uncivil wars
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War photography.
- History.
- Photography in historiography.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works.
- United States.
- Photography in historiography--Case studies.
- War photography--United States--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Case studies.
- History.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction / J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820348100
- 0820348104
- OCLC:
- 892432272
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