The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times : sixteen reproductions in color of famous war paintings : the new text history (1912)
Elson, Henry W. (Henry William), 1857-1935, Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896 · New York : McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie · leaf 383
forms a particularly interesting study in expression. At the left hand, the face looks almost amused. In the next the ex- pression is graver, the mouth close set. The third picture looks plainly obstinate, and in the last the stern fighter might have been declaring, as in the following spring: “I… … IN THE AUTUMN OF 1864— AFTER THE STRAIN OF THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN Here is a furrowed brow above eyes worn by pain. In the pictures of the previous year the forehead is more smooth, the expression grave yet confident. Here the expression is that of a man who has won, but won at a bitter cost. It is…
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Art and the war
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