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Cotton Pressing in Louisiana

April 12, 1856
A. Hill
Chicago History Museum

Tags: African Americans, Causes of the War, cotton, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, pre-war, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

The Harper's Ferry Insurrection [John Brown, Now Under Sentence of Death for Treason and Murder, at Charleston, VA.]

November 19, 1859
Martin M. Lawrence (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, battles, Causes of the War, freedom, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, photographs, portraits, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

View of the Famous Levee of New Orleans

1860
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Causes of the War, city, Confederate, cotton, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

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

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 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

The United States General Hospital

July 6, 1861
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: charity, children, death, family, health, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, 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

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

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 War for the Union, 1862—A Bayonet Charge

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, Confederate, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

The Army of the Potomac—A Sharpshooter on Picket Duty

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, Confederate, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Sumter [The Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, the 12th and 13th of April, 1861]

1862
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: battles, Causes of the War, Confederate, flag, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, secession, The Election of 1860 and Secession, 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

Contrabands Coming into Camp in Consequence of the Proclamation

January 31, 1863
Alfred R. Waud
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, children, contrabands, emancipation, escape, family, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, slavery, The Military Experience

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