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Restored Slave Cabins, Evergreen Plantation, Edgard, Louisiana,

Battlefields, Manassas (Airplane),

Mann’s “Antietam” series is central to her exploration of death and loss, especially as understood in the South. Although no figures are present in this or any of her “Antietam” landscapes, the brooding darkness and richly textured surface suggest the tragic legacy of this Civil War battlefield. On a single day in Antietam in September […]

“Ode to Edmund” Quilt,

City of Atlanta, Georgia, No.1,

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA. No. 2,

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, Ga., No. 1,

George N. Barnard was one of several unacknowledged photographers who worked for Civil War photographer Matthew Brady before setting out on his own in 1863. Serving as official photographer for the Army of the Cumberland’s topographical branch of the Department of Engineers, Barnard documented notable battlefields, military works, bridges, and topographic views. His best-known works […]

Alfred Sommers, Negro Bodyguard to Captain Sommers During the Civil War,

Flora Fitten Donnelly’s bust in the style of a death mask—a commemorative form of portraiture—depicts Alfred Sommers, who had been enslaved as a young man during the Civil War. The artist developed a nurturing friendship with Sommers in the last years of his life. Donnelly wrote: “I became interested in him, seeing him standing […]

The Florida,

Chancellorsville 1988 George Armstrong Custer,