Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War edited by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallman, J. Matthew (James Matthew), editor.

Gallagher, Gary W., editor.

Series:

Uncivil wars

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

United States.

Photography in historiography--Case studies.

Photography in historiography.

War photography--United States--History--19th century.

War photography.

Physical Description:

258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

Summary:

This set of essays by twenty-seven historians of the Civil War describes a wide array of the war's photographs, examining them in unfamiliar ways.

Contents:

Introduction / J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher

Part 1. 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

Part 2. 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

Part 3. 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

Part 4. 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.

Part 5. 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 (pages 245-246) and index.

ISBN:

9780820348100 (hardcover : alk. paper)

0820348104 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

892432272