The Civil War in Art : Teaching & Learning Through Chicago Collections

Camp Douglas

1864
Private Albert E. Myers
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, flag, home, Illinois, paintings, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

The Dying Soldier - The Last Letter from Home

1887
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (draftsman)
John J. Cade (engraver)
The Newberry Library

Tags: death, health, home, Illinois, illustrations, literature, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

Our Watering Places—The Empty Sleeve at Newport

1865
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: genre scenes, health, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, post-war, prints, Remembering the War, soldiers, Union, women

Love's Melancholy

1866
Constant Mayer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: death, family, home, landscapes, mourning, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War, women

News from the War

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, death, family, genre scenes, health, home, illustrations, mourning, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Northern Homefront

Old Virginia Home

1864
David Gilmour Blythe
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, flag, freedom, genre scenes, home, landscapes, paintings, slavery

Our Women in the War

1864
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, charity, genre scenes, health, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

Winter-Quarters in Camp—The Inside of a Hut

1863
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, genre scenes, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Thanksgiving in Camp

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, genre scenes, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

The Songs of the War

1861
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: African Americans, camp life, children, Confederate, contrabands, generals, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

The Commissary's Quarters in Winter Camp

1876
Edwin Forbes
Chicago Public Library

Tags: camp life, home, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Tremont House

1866
Louis Kurz and the Chicago Lithographing Company
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Chicago, children, city, family, flag, home, Illinois, politics, post-war, prints, The Northern Homefront, women

Hospital Camp, Jeffersonville, Indiana

c. 1864-1866
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, health, home, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Abraham Lincoln and Family

c. 1862
Edward Herline, Lithographer: Loux & Co., Philadelphia
Chicago History Museum

Tags: children, family, home, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, prints, soldiers, Union, women

Scrimshaw with portrait of black soldier

c. 1863
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: African Americans, camp life, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, flag, home, soldiers, Union

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