
A Bit of War History: The Veteran
A Civil War soldier (who is also seen in the paintings The Contraband and The Recruit), is now represented as a wounded veteran.
Read moreA Civil War soldier (who is also seen in the paintings The Contraband and The Recruit), is now represented as a wounded veteran.
Read morePainted in 1861 by Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky was an artistic response to the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, which sparked the Civil War.
Read moreHolding the Line at All Hazards, painted by William Gilbert Gaul in 1882, depicts the courage of the Southern soldier during a brutal battle in the American Civil War.
Read moreBy the 1880s, nostalgia and patriotism for the Civil War was growing, and memorial still-lifes became popular artworks among war veterans and their families.
Read moreThe statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. is captured at night.
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