The Montage
By Tom Glass Patriotic-themed carte de visite montages generate little interest among today’s collectors. Such composites featuring portraits of generals, admirals and wartime political leaders are dismissed as “fillers” used
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Revealing the Hidden Beauty of an Ambrotype
By Adam Ochs Fleischer If you haven’t had the opportunity to peruse the Library of Congress’ digitized collection of Civil War glass plate negatives, I encourage you to do so.
Grant After Vicksburg: Solving the mystery of who took the general’s photograph
By James Bultema For collectors of images, playing detective by answering the “who, what, where, and when” in relation to one’s photograph, is very important in the process of assembling
Agent of the Cotton War
By Ron Maness, with images and artifacts from the author’s collection The root causes of the Civil War have been a topic of debate since the conflict unfolded. Editorials, scholarly
Caught in the Crossfire: A surgeon in Sherman’s Army between quarreling generals
By Frank Jastrzembski One summer’s day in 1864, fear gripped the medical director of the 16th Corps when a feisty brigadier threatened to end his life. The general, Thomas W.
Charley’s Album: A pocket-sized treasure recalls a Connecticut officer’s war experience
By Dione Longley and Buck Zaidel Civil War veterans acknowledged their military service as the most significant experience of their lives. They filled uncounted albums with photographs of their pards
Perfect Tiger: Connecticut’s Col. Elisha Strong Kellogg
By Dione Longley and Buck Zaidel, with images and artifacts from the Buck Zaidel Collection The 19th Connecticut Infantry’s first exposure to its new lieutenant colonel, Elisha Strong Kellogg, was
The Likeness and Legacy of The Children: A history, study and survey of an iconic Civil War image
By Mark H. Dunkelman and Richard Leisenring, Jr. On May 9, 1863, Amos Humiston wrote his wife, Philinda, “I got the likeness of the children and it pleased me more
Three Days in July: Faces of Union and Confederate Soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg
Edited by Charles Joyce, with contributions of images and text by Rick Carlile, Ronald S. Coddington, Guy DiMasi, Thomas Harris, Tom Huntington, Britt C. Isenberg, Ross J. Kelbaugh, Jeff Kowalis,
Old Abe and the Army of the American Eagle
By Richard Leisenring, Jr. During the waning months of the Civil War, a new force rose in Chicago in support of the Union cause. By some estimates, the powerful Army