Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
And since our subject is interesting but lesser-known historical moments, ... These photos show 16 year old German soldier, Hans-Georg Henke, after he was captured by the US 9th Army on April 3rd ...
A ten-volume, blue-backed set of the complete series appeared in 1911, on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the war. Perhaps the most interesting chapter is the very first one in the first volume, "Photographing the Civil War," by Henry Wysham Lanier, which both describes period efforts to photograph the war and shows pictures of ...
American Civil War prison camp survivor, author unknown (restored by Jujutacular) Andersonville Prison , by John L. Ransom (restored by Jujutacular ) John F. Reynolds , by Alfred Rudolph Waud (edited by Jujutacular and Papa Lima Whiskey )
We do know that as a teenager, he was employed by Mathew Brady, a photographer who also became known for his Civil War photographs. O'Sullivan claimed that when the Civil War began in early 1861, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Union Army (though Joel Snyder, O'Sullivan's biographer, could find no definitive proof of this claim in ...
3. Though they were forbidden from signing up officially, a large number of Black women served as scouts, nurses and spies in the Civil War.. 4. One of the greatest African rulers of all time ...
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 burning of Columbia at Columbia, South Carolina in the American Civil War, by William Waud Image 33 Ulysses S. Grant , by Thure de Thulstrup Image 34 Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln , and John A. McClernand in 1862 by Alexander Gardner
In case you haven't, we have your back with a list full of fresh facts from the “Today I Learned” subreddit. Scroll d. Learning for adults shouldn’t be just an optional activity. Gaining new ...