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The Trust’s 2019 Teacher Institute: The Garry Adelman 1865 Photo Extravaganza!
Garry Adelman bills his photography presentations as “extravaganzas,” and he’s not stretching the point. Still photographs flash on a big screen in the corner of the room, but Garry’s ebullience as he talks about them radiates with the energy of … Continue reading
“Do You Remember, When We Last Did Meet?”
We like to spotlight the courageous “women who went to the field,” advocated for equality, influenced politics, marched to the battlefields, or did other unique and trailblazing things. While those exceptional women certainly deserve to be remembered and memorialized, I’ve … Continue reading
“Powerful and Determined”: Susie King Taylor and Her Image as Seen by Stephen Restelli
I could not tell she was African-American in looking at the negative. When I scanned it as viewed her as a positive print, chills went through me. This was the most stunning portrait photograph I have ever seen. And I … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Photography, Slavery
Tagged African American photography, black history, black history month, Black images, black-history-2019, civil war photography, daguereotypes, Samuel William Bridgham, slave photography, Stephen Restelli, Susie King Taylor, U. S. Colored Troops, women's studies
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Their Faces: Those Who Fought To Be Free – A Photographic Essay
When I have a lazy evening, I like to wander through the files of photographs on the Library of Congress website. The rain drummed outside, its even cadence echoing the drums of war from long past years. I decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, USCT
Tagged African American History, black history, black history month, black-history-2019, civil war photography, USCT
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Collecting Civil War General CDVs
Ever since elementary school, I’ve been fascinated with studying the American Civil War, particularly its generals. I’m most interested in the generals who died during the course of the war—either from wounds, illnesses, or accidents. I’ve been collecting antique photographs … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Photography
Tagged CDV, civil war collections, civil war photography
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Irish-Americans Remembered On The Battlefields
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and it only seems right to nod the kepis respectfully to the Irish-Americans who fought on both sides during the American Civil War. From the Emerging Civil War editors’ photo collections, here are a couple photos … Continue reading
Thinking About These Photographs
Compared to the number of Civil War photographs of soldiers, civilians, camps, and battlefields, posed photos of horses are rare. Clicking through Library of Congress’s online archives, though, I found some real photographic gems in this category. Looking closer at … Continue reading
Charles Dickens, America, & The Civil War
If you look at lists or letters or diaries mentioning reading material from the mid-19th Century in America, you’ll likely find a book or two by British author Charles Dickens – if that reader enjoyed novels. Popular on both sides … Continue reading
Year In Review 2017: #6
Analysis of Civil War photographs and the era’s changing attitudes toward death are addressed in this informative and reflective blog post. Using some well-known photographs from Gettysburg battlefield, the author discusses the history surrounding the images.
Alexander Gardner and the Good Death
Of the thousands of Civil War photographs, only several truly iconic images exist that specialists and non-specialists alike immediately recognize. One such image is the subject of today’s post: Timothy O’Sullivan’s “The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg.” The scene … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Memory, Photography
Tagged "a sharpshooters last sleep", "the home of the rebel sharpshooter", Alexander Gardner, casualties, Casualties of the Civil War, civil war photography, dead sharpshooter, death, Devil's Den, Gettysburg, good death, sharpshooter photo, soldier death
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