The Union image : popular prints of the Civil War North Mark E. Neely, Jr. & Harold Holzer

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neely, Mark E., Jr., author.

Holzer, Harold, author.

Series:

Civil War America.

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war.

Genre:

Historical prints, American.

Physical Description:

266 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000.

Summary:

Focusing on the popular prints used by the Northern side of the American Civil War, this book examines the importance of graphic arts in rallying support for the Union during the war and in shaping the national memory after the war.

Contents:

Introduction, flag mania: our heaven-born banner

The defenders of the Union: heroic tradition and the popular military portrait

In camp and on campaign: eyewitness portfolios of soldier life

The domestic blockade: the home front in prints

Twilight of the wooden ships: technology and tradition in Navy prints

Slow and steady wins the race: the 1864 presidential campaign in the graphic arts

The real men of the war: print portraits of the victors

The entire field could be observed: Civil War battle prints

Epilogue, toward a new Union image?

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index of illustrations

General index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-252) and indexes.

ISBN:

0807825107 (alk. paper)

9780807825105 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

40830176