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

Prisoners Stripped and Searched in the Snow at Camp Douglas

1893
John M. Copley
The Newberry Library

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, health, Illinois, illustrations, literature, post-war, prison, soldiers, The Military Experience, The Northern Homefront, Union

1864
Private Albert E. Myers
Chicago History Museum

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

1864
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, escape, Illinois, photographs, portraits, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

Temporary version 1909, cast in bronze 1911
Charles J. Mulligan
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, politics, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

Cast 1908, installed 1926
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, flag, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

1897
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Alexander Phimister Proctor
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, flag, generals, Illinois, monuments, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, sculptures, soldiers, Union

1923
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum
Chicago Park District

Tags: battles, Chicago, commemorations, generals, Illinois, monuments, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, sculptures, soldiers, Union

1887
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, flag, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

1891
Louis T. Rebisso
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, commemorations, generals, Illinois, monuments, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, sculptures, Union

c. 1945
Charles Keck
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, commemorations, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

1865
H. W. Immke Studio
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Chicago, children, city, death, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln's funeral, mourning, photographs, post-war, soldiers, Union

1860
Cornelia Adele Fassett
Chicago Public Library

Tags: charity, Chicago, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, portraits, Union

1908
Lorado Taft
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Chicago, commemorations, generals, Illinois, politics, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, sculptures, Union

c. 1865
Aaron E. Darling
Chicago History Museum

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, Chicago, freedom, Illinois, paintings, politics, portraits, Slavery and Abolition

c. 1865
Aaron E. Darling
Chicago History Museum

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, Chicago, freedom, Illinois, paintings, portraits, Slavery and Abolition, women