By Ronald S Coddington,Michael Fellman
ISBN-10: 0801878764
ISBN-13: 9780801878763
Before going off to struggle within the Civil warfare, many infantrymen on each side of the clash posed for a carte de visite, or traveling card, to offer to their households, associates, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 via a French photographer, the carte de visite used to be a small photographic print approximately the scale of a latest buying and selling card. The structure arrived in the USA at the eve of the Civil conflict, which fueled excessive call for for the handy and cheap keepsakes. substantial numbers of those portrait playing cards of Civil struggle squaddies live on this day, however the experiences—and usually the names—of the contributors portrayed were misplaced to time. A passionate collector of Civil War–era images, Ron Coddington grew to become intrigued via those nameless faces and started to analyze the heritage in the back of them in army documents, pension documents, and different public and private documents.
In Faces of the Civil War, Coddington provides seventy seven cartes de visite of Union infantrymen from his assortment and tells the tales in their lives in the course of and after the warfare. the warriors portrayed have been prosperous and terrible, informed and unschooled, native-born and immigrant, city and rural. All have been volunteers. Their own tales show an immense range of their adventure of struggle: many served with contrast, a few have been captured, a few by no means observed strive against whereas others observed little else. The lives of these who survived the warfare have been much more disparate. whereas a few made profitable transitions again to civilian existence, others suffered everlasting actual and psychological disabilities, which too usually wrecked their households and careers. In compelling phrases and haunting images, Faces of the Civil War bargains a different standpoint at the such a lot dramatic and wrenching interval in American history.
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