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

54th Massachusetts Volunteers

c. 1963
Jennie Scott Washington
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Confederate, death, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, flag, freedom, paintings, post-war, soldiers, Union

1963
Ramon B. Price
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, death, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, flag, freedom, paintings, post-war, soldiers, Union

1963
Sophie Wessel
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, camp life, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, contrabands, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, Illinois, paintings, post-war, slavery, soldiers, Union, women

1963
Allen Stringfellow
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, commemorations, emancipation, paintings, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

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

1963
Gus Nall
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, children, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Confederate, emancipation, family, freedom, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, Remembering the War, slavery, soldiers, Union, women

1940
Martyl (Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf)
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, death, emancipation, paintings, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

1893
John M. Copley
The Newberry Library

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, health, Illinois, illustrations, literature, post-war, prison, soldiers, The Military Experience, The Northern Homefront, Union

1864
Private Albert E. Myers
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, flag, home, Illinois, paintings, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

1860
Currier and Ives
Chicago Public Library

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

1864
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, escape, Illinois, photographs, portraits, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

Temporary version 1909, cast in bronze 1911
Charles J. Mulligan
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, politics, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

Cast 1908, installed 1926
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, flag, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

1897
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Alexander Phimister Proctor
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, flag, generals, Illinois, monuments, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, sculptures, soldiers, Union

1923
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum
Chicago Park District

Tags: battles, Chicago, commemorations, generals, Illinois, monuments, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, sculptures, soldiers, Union