Picture Gallery
Primary Sources
Bibliography
Bookbinder, Judith and Gallagher, Sheila, eds. First Hand Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection. Boston, 2009.
Campbell, William P. The Civil War: A Centennial Exhibition of Eyewitness Drawings. Washington, D.C., 1961.
Hoole, W. Stanley. Vizetelly Covers the Confederacy. Tuscaloosa, 1957.
Katz, Harry L., and Virga, Vincent. Civil War Sketch Book: Drawings from the Battlefront. New York, 2012.
Thompson, William Fletcher. The Image of War: The Pictorial Reporting of the American Civil War. New York, 1959.
On-line
Frank Vizetelly Drawings, 1861-1865: Guide (Harvard University)
The Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News (Emory University)
The Becker Collection: Drawings of the American Civil War Era (Boston College)
Henry Mosler’s Civil War Diary (Archives of American Art)
Drawings of David Hunter Strother (West Virginia University)
Frank Leslie’s The Soldier in Our Civil War, 1893 (Internet Archive)
Joshua Brown, Executive Director of the American Social History Project and Professor of History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, discusses the pictorial journalism of the Civil War and the ways battlefront artists covered the conflict before photography could document warfare. This talk took place on July 11, 2012, as part of The Visual Culture of the American Civil War, an NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers.