"The Civil War and American Art" 10/04/12 Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky, 1861. ... 1862, and his view of war dead at Antietam's Dunker Church, made the same day.

Confederate soldiers stand defiant before a Union general, even after the war is over. Winslow Homer, Prisoners from the Front, 1866. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Frank ...

Civil War Battlefield Art. ... Virginia, in December 1862, when a “South Carolinian had a portion of his head carried away, within four yards of myself, by a shell.” ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s new exhibition, “The Civil War and American Art,” which opens today, has two stars. One is the enslaved black American; the other is Winslow Homer.

In the aftermath of the Civil War's Battle of Shiloh in 1862, something strange happened. Some soldiers' wounds started to glow. Stranger still, those with glowing wounds seemed to have better ...

The Special Artist had a competitor of sorts in the Civil War photographer. But photography was then in its rude infancy, and its slow action —10 to 30 seconds’ exposure time—could not match ...

Civil War enthusiasts will have the opportunity this weekend to be transported 160 years back in time. The Johannes Schwalm Historical Association will host “Sounds of Freedom: Civil War Styl… ...