Faces of the Civil War An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories
Fr. 28.90
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Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
09.11.2012
Verlag
Johns Hopkins University PressSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
10035 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781421410395
Archival images and biographical sketches of Union soldiers tell the stories of their lives during and after the Civil War.
Before leaving to fight in the Civil War, many Union and Confederate soldiers posed for a
carte de visite, or visiting card, to give to their families, friends, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 by a French photographer, the
carte de visitewas a small photographic print roughly the size of a modern trading card. The format arrived in America on the eve of the Civil War, fueling intense demand for the keepsakes. Many cards of Civil War soldiers survive today, but the experiences?and often the names?of the individuals portrayed have been lost to time. A passionate collector of Civil War-era photography, Ron Coddington researched the history behind these anonymous faces in military records, pension files, and other public and personal documents.
In
Faces of the Civil War, Coddington presents 77
cartes de visiteof Union soldiers from his collection and tells the stories of their lives during and after the war. These soldiers came from all walks of life. All were volunteers. Their personal stories reveal a tremendous diversity in their experience of war: many served with distinction, some were captured, some never saw combat while others saw little else. The lives of survivors were even more disparate. While some made successful transitions back to civilian life, others suffered permanent physical and mental disabilities, which too often wrecked their families and careers. In compelling words and haunting pictures,
Faces of the Civil Waroffers a unique perspective on the most dramatic and wrenching period in American history.
Before leaving to fight in the Civil War, many Union and Confederate soldiers posed for a
carte de visite, or visiting card, to give to their families, friends, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 by a French photographer, the
carte de visitewas a small photographic print roughly the size of a modern trading card. The format arrived in America on the eve of the Civil War, fueling intense demand for the keepsakes. Many cards of Civil War soldiers survive today, but the experiences?and often the names?of the individuals portrayed have been lost to time. A passionate collector of Civil War-era photography, Ron Coddington researched the history behind these anonymous faces in military records, pension files, and other public and personal documents.
In
Faces of the Civil War, Coddington presents 77
cartes de visiteof Union soldiers from his collection and tells the stories of their lives during and after the war. These soldiers came from all walks of life. All were volunteers. Their personal stories reveal a tremendous diversity in their experience of war: many served with distinction, some were captured, some never saw combat while others saw little else. The lives of survivors were even more disparate. While some made successful transitions back to civilian life, others suffered permanent physical and mental disabilities, which too often wrecked their families and careers. In compelling words and haunting pictures,
Faces of the Civil Waroffers a unique perspective on the most dramatic and wrenching period in American history.
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