1865, Homer’s small painting of a Union soldier reflecting on the costs of war, a figure, Ms. Harvey tells us “has Gifford’s lean build and contemplative air.” The Civil War and American Art, on view ...

The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar is exhibiting "Lincoln's Drive Through Richmond," one of the first paintings to depict the president's drive through the city in April 1865 ...

The date, April 9 1865, marked the end of the Civil War with the signing and surrender in Wilmer MacLean’s living room in the village of Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. The painting, “Surrender at ...

A classic watercolour of a Confederate cruiser painted in Bermuda when the warship wasn’t wreaking havoc on US Navy vessels during the American Civil War [1861-1865] has been offered for sale by ...

Her exhibition of 15 new paintings opening at Truman's Brewery in London on Friday is called World Civil War Portraits ... There is allegory in most of the images, with ghosts and shadows lurking ...

Work is being done to preserve an important part of Civil War history. Sign up for our Newsletters The Gettysburg Cyclorama, ...

so, between us, we managed to carry around our necks two good shirts for Dan. As the war continued they became poorer and poorer: We had become so poor and had so little to cook that we did most ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) is America’s bloodiest war to date. It cost close to 1,100,000 casualties and claimed over 620,000 lives. These lesson plans are based on History Detectives episodes ...

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...