Lens of war
Subtitle: exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War
By: edited by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher
Series: Uncivil wars; Uncivil wars
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780820348100
Subjects: War photography; Case studies; Photography in historiography; Pictorial works; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher; title: Leaders. --; title: The "Gettysburg" Lincoln : the back story of a full-frontal photograph  -- Harold Holzer; title: Robert E. Lee and Traveller in Petersburg  -- Ethan S. Rafuse; title: "It is just what it is and nothing else": Grant after Cold Harbor  -- Joan Waugh; title: Jeb Stuart in full finery  -- Gary W. Gallagher; title: Three roads to Antietam: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Gardner  -- J. Matthew Gallman; title: The weird one: Stonewall Jackson's Chancellorsville portrait  -- Kathryn Shively Meier; title: The peculiar genius of William Tecumseh Sherman  -- Joseph T. Glatthaar; title: Soldiers. --; title: Looking at war : Union soldiers in the Peninsula Campaign  -- Aaron Sheehan-Dean; title: Cary Robinson's last Christmas  -- Emory M. Thomas; title: Three confederates at Gettysburg  -- Brooks D. Simpson; title: Champ Ferguson  -- Daniel E. Sutherland; title: Who are they?  -- Carol Reardon; title: Civilians. --; title: A family in camp  -- Caroline E. Janney; title: What's in a face : Annie Etheridge Hooks and civil work  -- Jane E. Schultz; title: Refugee camp at Helena, Arkansas, 1863  -- Thavolia Glymph; title: Finding a new war in an old image  -- Susan Eva O'Donovan; title: Victims. --; title: My dead Confederate  -- James Marten; title: Andrew J. Russell and the stone wall at Fredericksburg  -- Earl J. Hess; title: "A harvest of death" : negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, positive by Alexander Gardner  -- Stephen Cushman; title: Colonel William P. Rogers and his comrades : postmortem at Corinth, Mississippi, October 1862  -- T. Michael Parrish; title: "Eye of history" : looking at Civil War prisoners of war  -- Judith A. Giesberg; title: A dead horse  -- James I. Robertson Jr.; title: Places. --; title: City Point, Virginia : the nerve center of the Union war effort  -- Elizabeth R. Varon; title: The book or the gun?  -- Stephen Berry; title: From home front to ruins : the Fredericksburg destruction  -- William A. Blair; title: George N. Barnard, "Charleston, S.C. View of ruined buildings through porch of the Circular Church (150 Meeting Street)," 1865  -- Megan Kate Nelson; title: The Grand Review -- Steven E. Woodworth.