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Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 – March 6, 1895) was an American landscape painter and etcher who first gained fame during the American Civil War for his detailed and dramatic sketches of military subjects, including battlefield combat scenes. [1]
Illustration of John, a Virginia blacksmith, from a later edition of Hospital Sketches. Hospital Sketches (1863) is a compilation of four sketches based on letters Louisa May Alcott sent home during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War in Georgetown.
Gardner's Photographic Gallery of the War at 7th and D in Washington, D.C. (Boyd's Washington Directory, 1864 edition, page 15) Title page of Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (1866), design by Alfred R. Waud. In 1866, Gardner published a two-volume work, Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. Each volume ...
After the Civil War, he became a professor of English literature, mathematics and drawing at the University of Missouri. He was also a professor of civil engineering, applied mathematics, and engineering drawing at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (1872–1877). [2] His original watercolors are now privately owned.
The City Council was dominated by Democrats, and many of the Irish and German immigrants belonged to that party. The Detroit Free Press was a Democratic Party paper that was opposed to President Abraham Lincoln's conduct of the American Civil War and its increasing demand for
First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter.In the painting, Carpenter depicts Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his Cabinet members reading over the Emancipation Proclamation, which proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states in rebellion against the Union in the American ...
American Civil War portal; List of American Civil War generals (Union) John C. Waugh, The Class of 1846, Ballantine Books, New York, 1994. Water Color and Drawings by Brevet Maj. Gen. Truman Seymour, Exhibition Catalog, United States Military Academy, Kent Ahrens, 1974. The Drawings and Watercolors by Truman Seymour, organized by the Everhart ...
Henry Chapman Ford, Ute camp, by 1894 Ford was born in Livonia, New York.He studied art in Paris and Florence late in the 1850s. During the Civil War, he was a soldier assigned to prepare illustrations of interest to the military.