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President Lincoln visited Gardner's studio one Sunday in February 1865, the final year of the Civil War, accompanied by the American portraitist Matthew Wilson. Wilson had been commissioned to paint the president's portrait, but because Lincoln could spare so little time to pose, the artist needed recent photographs to work from.
Alexander Gardner was a Scottish photographer who documented the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, and the Lincoln assassination plot. He worked as an assistant to Mathew Brady, opened his own studio, and published a two-volume sketch book of the war.
Learn about the photographers who documented the Civil War, such as Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner and George S.Cook. See examples of their photos and learn about the historical context and challenges of war photography.
Learn about the life and achievements of Abraham Lincoln, who led the United States through the Civil War and abolished slavery. He was born on February 12, 1809, in Kentucky and was assassinated in 1865.
This now-iconic image of the family of Sgt. Samuel Smith, an African-American soldier wearing an Abraham Lincoln campaign pin, is a featured photo on Wikimedia Commons and was donated to the Library of Congress as part of the Liljenquist Collection Unidentified soldier in Virginia Volunteer uniform and secession badge This image of A. M. Chandler and Silas Chandler was purchased from Chandler ...
The Peacemakers is an 1868 painting by George P.A. Healy.It depicts the historic March 27, 1865, strategy session by the Union high command on the steamer River Queen during the final days of the American Civil War. [1]
Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865, during the American Civil War, when victory over secessionists was near. He used biblical allusions to reflect on God's will and the cause of the war, and quoted "with malice toward none, with charity for all" as a motto for the nation.
Lincoln appeared as an occasional guest host on Histeria!, especially in two episodes centered on the Civil War. Pepper Mills mistakes him for Lurch from The Addams Family, and one sketch shows the Civil War politics like an episode of Seinfeld, with Lincoln as Jerry and George B. McClellan as George Costanza.