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Smithsonian curator Eleanor Jones Harvey included Surrender of a Confederate Soldier in her 2012 exhibition The Civil War and American Art.In her catalog for the exhibition, Harvey asserts that the painting is part of a genre of images, painted in the Union states of the North, that showed the dignified surrender of the Southern soldiers as a way of depicting the emotional trauma of their ...
Carroll, Dillon J., "'The God Who Shielded Me Before, Yet Watches Over Us All': Confederate Soldiers, Mental Illness, and Religion," Civil War History, 61 (Sept. 2015), 252–80. Faust, Drew Gilpin. "Christian Soldiers: The Meaning of Revivalism in the Confederate Army." Journal of Southern History (1987): 63–90. online; Jones, John William ...
(on one side of base:) soldiers, you in the wreck of gray/with the brazen belt of c.s.a./take our love and tears to-day./take, then, all that we have to give,/and by god's help while our heart shall live/it shall keep in its faithful way/the campfire lit for the men in gray-/aye, till trumpet sound far away/and the silver bugle of heaven play ...
Portrait of a Confederate Army infantryman (1861–1865) Johnny Reb is the national personification of the common soldier of the Confederacy.During the American Civil War and afterwards, Johnny Reb and his Union counterpart Billy Yank were used in speech and literature to symbolize the common soldiers who fought in the Civil War in the 1860s. [1]
The "Shepherd's Crook," the original insignia authorized for U.S. Army chaplains, 1880–1888, and still included as part of the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps regimental insignia Early army chaplain uniforms used the color black as a symbol of a ministerial presence, before corps insignia had been instituted WWI Army uniform coat with Christian Chaplain insignia WWI Army dress uniform coat with ...
The Confederate States Army (CSA), also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold and expand the institution of slavery. [3]
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Unidentified Civil War veteran in United Confederate Veterans uniform with Southern Cross of Honor medal. From the Library of Congress Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs. The United Confederate Veterans (UCV, or simply Confederate Veterans) was an American Civil War veterans' organization headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.