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He made a number of his war sketches into watercolors, leaving a legacy of close to 1000 watercolors, drawings, sketches, maps, and diagrams. [6] Sneden contributed some of them to the Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, [7] a series of articles published between 1884 and 1887 in The Century Magazine and then reissued as a four-volume set of ...
The Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (also referred to as the War of the Rebellion Atlas) was published as a companion piece to the Official Records of the American Civil War. It contains maps and other images derived from materials generated by both Union and Confederate military personnel during the ...
All the nations under heaven: an ethnic and racial history of New York City (1995) Burns, Ric, and James Sanders. New York: An Illustrated History (2003), large-scale book version of Burns PBS documentary, New York: A Documentary Film an eight part, 17½ hour documentary film directed by Ric Burns for PBS. It originally aired in 1999–2003 ...
John R. Fellows (July 29, 1832 – December 7, 1896) was an American lawyer and politician from Arkansas and New York. He served as New York County District Attorney (1888–1890, 1894–1896), and a member of Congress from New York (1891–1893).
The Civil War has been commemorated in many capacities, ranging from the reenactment of battles to statues and memorial halls erected, films, stamps and coins with Civil War themes being issued, all of which helped to shape public memory. These commemorations occurred in greater numbers on the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the war. [308]
The American Civil War was the first war in history whose intimate reality would be brought home to the public, not only in newspaper depictions, album cards and cartes-de-visite, but in a popular new 3D format called a "stereograph," "stereocard" or "stereoview." Millions of these cards were produced and purchased by a public eager to ...
Phelps was born in on October 29, 1832 Hartford, Connecticut.He later moved to Glens Falls, New York and worked as a lumber merchant.. Phelps raised the 22nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which mustered in on June 6, 1861 for two-years service, and was appointed colonel of the regiment.
View of New York City, 1863 1860 map of New York City. New York City during the American Civil War (1861–1865) was a bustling American city that provided a major source of troops, supplies, equipment and financing for the Union Army.