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Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War

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Introduction / J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher
Part I.Leaders
The "Gettysburg" Lincoln: the back story of a full-frontal photograph / Harold Holzer
Robert E. Lee and Traveller in Petersburg / Ethan S. Rafuse
"It is just what it is and nothing else": Grant after Cold Harbor / Joan Waugh
Jeb Stuart in full finery / Gary W. Gallagher
Roads to Antietam: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Gardner / J. Matthew Gallman
The weird one: Stonewall Jackson's Chancellorsville portrait / Kathryn Shively Meier
The peculiar genius of William Tecumseh Sherman / Joseph T. Glatthaar
Part II. Soldiers
Looking at war: Union soldiers in the Peninsula Campaign / Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Cary Robinson's last Christmas / Emory M. Thomas
Confederates at Gettysburg / Brooks D. Simpson
Champ Ferguson / Daniel E. Sutherland
Who are they? / Carol Reardon
Part III. Civilians
A family in camp / Caroline E. Janney
What's in a face: Annie Etheridge Hooks and civil work / Jane E. Schultz
Refugee camp at Helena, Arkansas, 1863 / Thavolia Glymph
Finding a new war in an old image / Susan Eva O'Donovan
Part IV. Victims
My dead Confederate / James Marten
Andrew J. Russell and the stone wall at Fredericksburg / Earl J. Hess
"A harvest of death": negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, positive by Alexander Gardner / Stephen Cushman
Colonel William P. Rogers and his comrades: postmortem at Corinth, Mississippi, October 1862 / T. Michael Parrish
"Eye of history": looking at Civil War prisoners of war / Judith A. Giesberg
A dead horse / James I. Robertson Jr
Part V. Places
City Point, Virginia: the nerve center of the Union war effort / Elizabeth R. Varon
The book or the gun? / Stephen Berry
From home front to ruins: the Fredericksburg destruction / William A. Blair
George N. Barnard, "Charleston, S.C. view of ruined buildings through porch of the Circular Church (150 Meeting Street)," 1865 / Megan Kate Nelson
The Grand Review / Steven E. Woodworth.

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Lens of war : exploring iconic photographs of the Civil War. ISBN 9780820348100. Published by The University of Georgia Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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