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

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

Columbia Mourns

April 29, 1865
Thomas Nast
Chicago Public Library

Tags: assassination, Classical, commemorations, death, illustrations, Lincoln, Lincoln's funeral, mourning, soldiers, Union

Lincoln Catafalque

1865
H. W. Immke Studio
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Chicago, children, city, death, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln's funeral, mourning, photographs, post-war, soldiers, Union

Weighing Out Rations

May 7, 1864
Edwin Forbes
Chicago Public Library

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

The Commissary's Quarters in Winter Camp

1876
Edwin Forbes
Chicago Public Library

Tags: camp life, home, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Women of the War—Famous Nurses of Union Soldiers

1889
Samuel Hollyer
The Newberry Library

Tags: health, illustrations, literature, portraits, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor

1861
Currier and Ives
Chicago History Museum

Tags: battles, Causes of the War, Confederate, flag, prints, secession, soldiers, The Election of 1860 and Secession, Union

Main Building of the Great North Western Sanitary Fair, Chicago

1865
Louis Kurz, Lithographer: Baker & Co.
Chicago History Museum

Tags: charity, Chicago, children, city, family, flag, health, Illinois, prints, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

The Chicago Zouaves Cadet Drill Team at Utica

c. 1860
J. Graff
Chicago History Museum

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

Hospital Camp, Jeffersonville, Indiana

c. 1864-1866
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, health, home, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Tintype of Black Union Soldier, J. L. Balldwin

c. 1863
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: African Americans, emancipation, flag, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Battle of the Wilderness

c. 1864
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, generals, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

General Grant at Fort Donelson

c. 1870-1875
Paul D. Philippoteaux
Chicago History Museum

Tags: African Americans, camp life, commemorations, Confederate, flag, generals, health, paintings, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Battle of Fredericksburg

1888
Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers
Chicago History Museum

Tags: battles, commemorations, death, generals, health, post-war, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

The Peacemakers

1868
George P. A. Healy
Chicago History Museum

Tags: commemorations, generals, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, portraits, post-war, soldiers, Union

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