Lens of War : Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1. LEADERS -- The "Gettysburg" Lincoln: The Back Story of a Full-Frontal Photograph -- Robert E. Lee and Traveller in Petersburg -- "It Is Just What It Is and Nothing Else": Grant after Cold Harbor -- Jeb Stuart in Full Finery -- Three Roads to Antietam: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Gardner -- The Weird One: Stonewall Jackson's Chancellorsville Portrait -- The Peculiar Genius of William Tecumseh Sherman -- PART 2. SOLDIERS -- Looking at War: Union Soldiers in the Peninsula Campaign -- Cary Robinson's Last Christmas -- Three Confederates at Gettysburg -- Champ Ferguson -- Who Are They? -- PART 3. CIVILIANS -- A Family in Camp -- What's in a Face: Annie Etheridge Hooks and Civil Work -- Refugee Camp at Helena, Arkansas, 1863 -- Finding a New War in an Old Image -- PART 4. VICTIMS -- My Dead Confederate -- Andrew J. Russell and the Stone Wall at Fredericksburg -- "A Harvest of Death": Negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, Positive by Alexander Gardner -- Colonel William P. Rogers and His Comrades: Postmortem at Corinth, Mississippi, October 1862 -- "Eye of History": Looking at Civil War Prisoners of War -- A Dead Horse -- PART 5. PLACES -- City Point, Virginia: The Nerve Center of the Union War Effort -- The Book or the Gun? -- From Home Front to Ruins: The Fredericksburg Destruction -- George N. Barnard, "Charleston, S.C. View of ruined buildings through porch of the Circular Church (150 Meeting Street)," 1865 -- The Grand Review -- Suggested Readings -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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