Portraits of conflict
Subtitle: a photographic history of Missouri in the Civil War
By: William Garrett Piston, Thomas P. Sweeney ; with a foreword by the general editors, Carl Moneyhon and Bobby Roberts.
Contributors: Sweeney, Thomas P., 1943-
Series: Portraits of conflict series
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781557289131
Subjects: Documentary photography -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century; Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pictorial works; Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pictorial works; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photography
Genres: Pictorial works
Description: "This volume ... includes hundreds of photographs, many of them never before published. The authors provide text and commentary, organizing the photographs into chapters covering the origins of war, its conventional and guerrilla phases, the war on the rivers, medicine ... the experiences of Missourians who served out of state, and the process of reunion in the postwar years"--Fly leaf.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Photography in Missouri during the Civil War; title: The long road to war; title: Securing Missouri for the Union; title: Confederate initiatives and their consequences; title: The guerrilla war; title: Missourians and the war on the rivers; title: Civil War medicine in Missouri; title: Missourians serving out of state; title: Missouri's veterans.