Civil War Battlefield Art. ... In May 1861 the veteran British war artist Frank Vizetelly arrived in America fresh from covering Giuseppe Garibaldi’s campaign to liberate the Italian peninsula ...

"First Hand," an exhibition of more than 140 original Civil War-era drawings on view at Reed ... "Charge of Fremont's Bodyguard at Springfield, Missouri," October 25, 1861, graphite and ink on ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) is America’s bloodiest war to date. It cost close to 1,100,000 casualties and claimed over 620,000 lives. ... and survey slave art and culture.

In 1861 and the years that followed, many American men found themselves far from home. ... Civil War Battlefield Art. HISTORY & CULTURE. When a people's stories are at risk, ...

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

In his marvelous new book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, Adam Goodheart tries to capture what it felt like to live through secession and the opening months of the Civil War, at a time when it ...

Lincoln and Civil War scholars debated why the Civil War didn't end in 1861, the year that it began. They discussed why the numerous advantages of the Union did not bring the war to a swift ...

Peter Carmichael gave an overview of the Civil War in 1861. He touched on the social, political and military components that led to the start of the war. He encouraged scholars to help develop a ...