The Union Image: Popular Prints of the Civil War NorthUNC Press Books, 2000 - 266 páginas During the American Civil War, popular prints were frequently used to depict, define, and celebrate both the Union and Confederate causes. The Union Image explores the graphic arts that portrayed the Northern side_both in patriotic pictures and new |
Contenido
The Defenders of the Union Heroic Tradition and the Popular Military Portrait | 21 |
In Camp and on Campaign Eyewitness Portfolios of Soldier Life | 55 |
The Domestic Blockade The Home Front in Prints | 81 |
Twilight of the Wooden Ships Technology and Tradition in Navy Prints | 107 |
Slow and Steady Wins the Race The 1864 Presidential Campaign in the Graphic Arts | 127 |
The Real Men of the War Print Portraits of the Victors | 159 |
The Entire Field Could Be Observed Civil War Battle Prints | 197 |
Epilogue Toward a New Union Image? | 229 |
NOTES | 235 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 251 |
INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 253 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Lincoln advertisement American flag army artist Banner battle Battle of Gettysburg battlefield Beecher Boston camp caption capture cartoons Chicago chromo Chromolithograph City Civil colored commander Confederate copyrighted Currier and Ives Currier and Ives's Davis Democratic depicted Ehrgott Ellsworth engraving equestrian fame foreground Fort Sumter Franz Sigel Frederic Edwin Church Frémont George Gettysburg Grant gunboat Hand-colored lithograph Harper's Weekly heroes heroic History illustrated inches inspired ironclads issued John Kurz and Allison Library of Congress Lincoln Museum Lithograph Louis Prang March McClellan military Monitor National naval Navy North Northern offered officers opposite Figure painting patriotic peace Philadelphia photograph picket plate political popular prints portfolio Prang and Company Prang's War Pictures president printmakers published rebel regiment Republican River Roesler scene Sherman Shiloh Sigel sketch Sumter surrender symbolic Thulstrup tion troops Ulysses uniform Union army victory viewer Virginia volunteers Washington William Winslow Homer York
Pasajes populares
Página 12 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light ; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 7 - It is not a painted rag. It is a whole national history. It is the Constitution. It is the government. It is the free people that stand in the government on the Constitution.