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

Negro Troops Receive Instructions in the Field

1963
Allen Stringfellow
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, commemorations, emancipation, paintings, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, 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

1940
Martyl (Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf)
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, death, emancipation, paintings, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

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

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

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

c. 1861
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: children, photographs, portraits, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

1865
George N. Barnard
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: commemorations, generals, photographs, portraits, post-war, The Military Experience, Union

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

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

November 1862
Alexander Gardner
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, camp life, contrabands, freedom, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

1864
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

1863
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

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