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Contraband of War
...venture of his life. He believed that he could satisfy his passion for historical painting and his talent for caricature by combining them into a novel, attention-getting panorama. Moving panoramas...
“Apollo Amusing the Gods”
...election — about 14 a month — Nast was finally able to laugh as Election Day approached. Apollo Amusing the Gods, his Olympian Comic Opera, appeared the day after the...
The Rebel Army Crossing the Fords of the Potomac for the Invasion of Maryland
...illustration in it was on the newsstand a week earlier, three days after the Battle of Antietam took place, but before it was depicted in the weeklies. Union Commanding General...
The Emancipation of the Negroes, January, 1863 The Past and the Future
...career as editor. Harper’s Weekly printed the complete text of the Proclamation. The Emancipation of the Negroes finally emerged as a dramatic allegory in the next issue. The dominant center...
The Army of the Potomac — Drawing Rations
...competent but not noticeably different from those sketched by Alfred Waud and Theodore Davis at the front, or Winslow Homer in New York. Drawing Rations was notable for the Black...
The Drummer Boy of Our Regiment — Eight War Scenes
...troops except possibly at the commencement of a battle before the fighting began. Clem was discharged a year later at age 13, made the army his career as an adult,...
John Morgan’s Highwaymen Sacking a Peaceful Village in the West
...in Kentucky — with commands of 800 to 1,000 men each — conducted devastating guerilla raids against troops under the control of Union General Don Carlos Buell. They not only...
Historic Examples of Southern Chivalry
...Lincoln to call him “his best recruiting sergeant.” Southern Chivalry was Nast’s most vicious atrocity pictorial, reprising scenes from the War’s commencement — some of which he had portrayed previously....
The Hero of Gettysburg
...over the Union army, now commanded by Joseph Hooker, at Chancellorsville, Virginia. (Lincoln had replaced Ambrose Burnside with Hooker after Burnside’s disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg the previous December.) However, the...
The Press on the Field
...names of the wounded and dead (lower left center); drawing the complete picture from notes and quick sketches; and finally showing an original sketchbook. As Harper’s pointed out in its...