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

The Seceding South Carolina Delegation

December 22, 1860
Mathew Brady (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: Causes of the War, Confederate, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, photographs, politics, portraits, pre-war, prints, secession, Slavery and Abolition

c. 1963
Jennie Scott Washington
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Confederate, death, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, flag, freedom, paintings, post-war, soldiers, Union

January 14, 1865
George H. Ellsbury
The Newberry Library

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, flag, generals, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

1963
Gus Nall
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, children, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Confederate, emancipation, family, freedom, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, Remembering the War, slavery, soldiers, Union, women

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

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

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, flag, illustrations, literature, portraits, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

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

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, Confederate, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

1863
Alexander Gardner
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, landscapes, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

1863
Timothy O'Sullivan
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, landscapes, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, Confederate, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

1860
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Causes of the War, city, Confederate, cotton, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

1861
Currier and Ives
Chicago History Museum

Tags: battles, Causes of the War, Confederate, flag, prints, secession, soldiers, The Election of 1860 and Secession, Union