1 Visual Records of War
2 Stereoscope of Alfred Waud – Harper’s Weekly artist - making a battlefield sketch.
3 Painting - Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey, 3 January 1777 Artist: John Trumbull
4 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.
5 Photography in The Civil War
6 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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8 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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10 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.”
11 Mathew Brady has inserted himself into this photo of Gen. Robert B. Potter and his staff.
12 President Lincoln meets with General McClellan at Antietam, October 1862.
13 Portrait of Brig. Gen. Napoleon McLaughlin and staff, near Washington, D.C., 1861
14 Two men outside a cook’s tent at a Union camp.
15 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”
18 Bodies of dead men gathered for burial at Antietam, 1862.
19 Antietam, 1862
20 Cheval-de-frise near Charleston
21 Army Hospital
22 Confederate soldier outside Petersburgh, Virginia, 1865
23 Collecting Bones, Cold Harbor, Virginia 1865
24 “Battlefield of Gettysburg, 1863
25 Devil’s Den – Gettysburg – “Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, July 1863” – Alexander Gardner