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

54th Massachusetts Volunteers

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

And the Old Flag Never Touched the Ground

1963
Ramon B. Price
DuSable Museum of African American History

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

Charge of the Third Brigade, First Division, Sixteenth Corps, at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee, December 15, 1864

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

Col. Robert G. Shaw dying at the Battle of Fort Wagner

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

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

A Woman in Battle: Michigan Bridget Carrying the Flag

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

A Nation's Loss

1865
Unknown Artist
Chicago Public Library

Tags: assassination, commemorations, death, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, mourning, portraits, prints

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

The Surgeon at Work at the Rear During an Engagement

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

Hunter Mountain, Twilight

1866
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: death, Hudson River School, landscapes, mourning, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War

Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter

1863
Alexander Gardner
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg

1863
Timothy O'Sullivan
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

Columbia Mourns

April 29, 1865
Thomas Nast
Chicago Public Library

Tags: assassination, Classical, commemorations, death, illustrations, Lincoln, Lincoln's funeral, mourning, soldiers, Union

Lincoln Catafalque

1865
H. W. Immke Studio
Chicago Public Library

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

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