Transcript Photography in The Civil War - Scotts Valley High School

Visual Records of War
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Stereoscope of Alfred Waud – Harper’s
Weekly artist - making a battlefield sketch.
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Painting - Death of General Mercer at
the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey, 3
January 1777
Artist: John Trumbull
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Note the heroic death of Mercer: sword in hand, facing the man
who will kill him and even grasping the bayonet. While Mercer
faces death, General George Washington leads the Continental
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Army toward victory.
Photography in The Civil War
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Consider the photograph, “A Harvest of
Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania” 1863, by
Timothy O’Sullivan, that follows. Compare
it to the painting, Death of General Mercer.
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James F. Gibson, “Lieut. Washington, a Confederate
Prisoner, and Capt. Custer, U.S.A.” 1862
Confederate lieutenant James B. Washington was taken
prisoner during McClellan’s campaign to Virginia.
Captain George Custer, a Union officer, was an old
friend of Washington’s. When Gibson saw the two men
talking, he decided to photograph them. He took a
picture of them together.
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He also posed a young African American boy at their feet. An
illustration with that photo appeared in Harper’s Weekly with
the title, “Both Sides, the Cause.”
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Mathew Brady has inserted himself into this
photo of Gen. Robert B. Potter and his staff.11
President Lincoln meets with General McClellan at Antietam,
October 1862.
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Portrait of Brig. Gen. Napoleon McLaughlin and staff, near
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Washington, D.C., 1861
Two men outside a cook’s tent at a Union camp.
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Gettysburg, 1863 – This images shows a remnant of a
military camp. Many small town saw fields and farms
occupied by armies.
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Gettysburg
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“Field Where Gen. Reynold Fell, Gettysburg, 1863”
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Bodies of dead men gathered for burial at Antietam,
1862.
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Antietam, 1862
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Cheval-de-frise near Charleston
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Army Hospital
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Confederate soldier outside Petersburgh, Virginia, 1865
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Collecting Bones,
Cold Harbor, Virginia 1865
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“Battlefield of Gettysburg, 1863
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Devil’s Den – Gettysburg – “Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, July 1863”
– Alexander Gardner
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