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

The Seceding South Carolina Delegation

December 22, 1860
Mathew Brady (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: Causes of the War, Confederate, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, photographs, politics, portraits, pre-war, prints, secession, Slavery and Abolition

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

Republican Standard Bearers Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

1860
Newton Briggs (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: Causes of the War, Illinois, Lincoln, photographs, politics, pre-war, prints, The Election of 1860 and Secession

Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

1860
Currier and Ives
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, photographs, politics, portraits, pre-war, prints, Union

A Nation's Loss

1865
Unknown Artist
Chicago Public Library

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

Our Watering Places—The Empty Sleeve at Newport

1865
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: genre scenes, health, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, post-war, prints, Remembering the War, soldiers, Union, 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

Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts

1861
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: genre scenes, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, The Northern Homefront, Union, women

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

Our Women in the War

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

John Brown

1939
John Steuart Curry
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, commemorations, freedom, portraits, post-war, prints, Slavery and Abolition, Westward Expansion

Army of the Potomac—Sleeping on Their Arms

1864
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

Winter-Quarters in Camp—The Inside of a Hut

1863
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

Thanksgiving in Camp

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

The Songs of the War

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

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The Seceding South Carolina Delegation

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

Republican Standard Bearers Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

A Nation's Loss

Our Watering Places—The Empty Sleeve at Newport

News from the War

Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts

The Surgeon at Work at the Rear During an Engagement

Our Women in the War

John Brown

Army of the Potomac—Sleeping on Their Arms

Winter-Quarters in Camp—The Inside of a Hut

Thanksgiving in Camp

The Songs of the War