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Visual Records of War
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Stereoscope of Alfred Waud – Harper’s Weekly artist - making a battlefield sketch.
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Painting - Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey, 3
January 1777
Artist: John Trumbull
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Note the heroic death of Mercer: sword in hand, facing the man who will kill him and even grasping the bayonet. While Mercer faces death, General George Washington leads the Continental Army toward victory.
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Photography in The Civil War
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Consider the photograph, “A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania” 1863, by Timothy O’Sullivan, that follows. Compare it to the painting, Death of General Mercer.
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James F. Gibson, “Lieut. Washington, a Confederate Prisoner, and Capt. Custer, U.S.A.” 1862
Confederate lieutenant James B. Washington was taken prisoner during McClellan’s campaign to Virginia. Captain George Custer, a Union officer, was an old friend of Washington’s. When Gibson saw the two men talking, he decided to photograph them. He took a picture of them together.
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He also posed a young African American boy at their feet. An illustration with that photo appeared in Harper’s Weekly with the title, “Both Sides, the Cause.”
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Mathew Brady has inserted himself into this photo of Gen. Robert B. Potter and his staff.
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President Lincoln meets with General McClellan at Antietam, October 1862.
13Portrait of Brig. Gen. Napoleon McLaughlin and staff, near
Washington, D.C., 1861
14Two men outside a cook’s tent at a Union camp.
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Gettysburg, 1863 – This images shows a remnant of a military camp. Many small town saw fields and farms
occupied by armies.
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17“Field Where Gen. Reynold Fell, Gettysburg, 1863”
18Bodies of dead men gathered for burial at Antietam, 1862.
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Antietam, 1862
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Cheval-de-frise near Charleston
21Army Hospital
22Confederate soldier outside Petersburgh, Virginia, 1865
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Collecting Bones, Cold Harbor, Virginia 1865
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“Battlefield of Gettysburg, 1863
25Devil’s Den – Gettysburg – “Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, July 1863” – Alexander Gardner
