Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of N Carolina in the Civil War
By RICHARD MCCASLIN.
Description
The Civil War presented the first major opportunity for Americans to photograph fighting men and the places they battled and to create an extensive visual record of war. Most collections of such photographs, however, have focused on the leaders of the conflict and have treated the images only as illustrations for traditional narratives. Centering on the common soldier, Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of North Carolina in the Civil War, the sixth in the University of Arkansas Press's award-winning series, tells the stories of the actual people, rich and poor, whose lives w...
ISBN(s)
1557284547, 9781557284549
