| Portion of title |
Photographic history of Tennessee in the Civil War |
| Series |
Portraits of conflict series
Portraits of conflict. ^A411214
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| Contents |
Photography -- Secession -- Shiloh -- Murfreesboro -- Chickamauga -- Chattanooga -- Franklin -- Virginia -- Bentonville -- Reconstruction. |
| Abstract |
It's one thing to understand that over twenty-thousand Confederate and Union soldiers died at the Battle of Murfreesboro. Its quite another to study an ambrotype portrait of twenty-year-old private Frank B. Crosthwait, dressed in his Sunday best, looking somberly at the camera. In a tragically short time, hell be found on the battlefield, mortally wounded, still clutching the knotted pieces of handkerchief he used in a hopeless attempt to stop the bleeding from his injuries. Private Crosthwaits image is one of more than 250 portraitsmany never before publishedto be found in the much anticipated Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War. The eighth in the distinguished Portraits of Conflict series, this volume joins the personal and the public to provide a uniquely rich portrayal of Tennesseansin uniforms both blue and graywho fought and lost their lives in the Civil War. Here is the story of a widow working as a Union spy to support herself and her children. Of a father emerging from his house to find his Confederate soldier son dying at his feet. Of a nine-year-old boy who attached himself to a Union regiment after his mother died. Their stories and faces, joined with personal remembrances from recovered letters and diaries and ample historical information on secession, famous battles, surrender, and Reconstruction, make this new Portraits of Conflict a Civil War treasure. - Publisher. |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy includes autograph of Dick Armstrong dated 2007, Manteo on front pastedown. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-384) and index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy purchased from Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1/22/20 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: McCaslin, Richard B. Portraits of conflict. Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2007 |
| Genre/form | Illustrated works. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Pictorial works. |
| Genre/form | Illustrated works. |
| LCCN | 2006036513 |
| ISBN | 1557288313 (casebound ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781557288318 (casebound ; alk. paper) |
| Other class# |
HI.F 3/178-8:P 625/T 46/2007 |
| Other class# |
HI.F 3/178-8:P 6/2007 |
