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In 1982, CBS-TV had him do a painting for the 3-part mini-series The Blue and the Gray, and in 1993 a one-hour television special, Images of the Civil War - The Paintings of Mort Künstler, was shown on the A&E TV network. He has received numerous honors and awards, and at least nine books are dedicated to featuring his artwork.
The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. Marching Toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War, 1861-1865. New York: Knopf, 1968 (1st ed.); New York: Facts on File, 1991 (revised and updated ed.). The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP. Princeton ...
William Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995) was an American attorney and civil rights activist, known for defending the Chicago Seven. [1] Kunstler was an active member of the National Lawyers Guild, a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the co-founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the "leading gathering place for radical lawyers in ...
The Stonewall Brigade Band is a community concert band based in Staunton, Virginia.It is the United States's oldest continuous community band sponsored by local government and funded, in part, by tax monies. [1]
Augustus John Turner, (October 12, 1818 – May 14, 1905), known as "A. J. Turner", was an American composer, band leader and music professor.. He was the first director of the Stonewall Brigade Band of Staunton, Virginia, the oldest continuous community band funded by tax moneys in the United States.
Franz Künstler (1900–2008) – Austria-Hungary. Last Central Powers veteran. Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) – Empire of Japan. Served in the Imperial Japanese Army Telegraph Corps in Tokyo in 1918. Could be considered the last veteran of World War I and last Entente veteran, but is not widely recognized as such.
Künstler is a German word meaning "artist". Notable people with the surname include: Emily Kunstler (born 1978), American activist and documentary filmmaker; Franz Künstler (1900–2008), last known surviving veteran of the First World War who fought for the Austro-Hungarian Empire; James Howard Kunstler (born 1948), American author
4 Civil War Cannon; "whether it was idle curiosity or absence of thought that caused Phil Schaller to fire one of the cannon to awaken the town on July 4, 1895, one will never know. The force of the cannon fire broke all the windows on the south side of the court house and many windows in the Main Street business district.