Published: 3/7/17Battle of the IroncladsBy: Civil War Monitor Category: Photo Essays [F]or hours the conflict lasted. Sometimes so near were the vessels they appeared in contact, and again three miles apart; but all the while vomiting forth seeming destruction with frightful...
Published: 6/10/16Sketches of WarBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays “One of the first things that strikes you about his sketches is their wonderful clearness of idea. You feel that they are drawn by a ready and skillful hand; one...
Published: 9/15/15The Dead of AntietamBy: Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays [M]r. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and...
Published: 6/17/15Civil War QuartersBy: Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays [W]hile army regulations set strict guidelines for the layout of army camps—prescribing, for instance, that tents be arranged in neat rows by company—in many cases “there was much of the...
Published: 10/9/13Wounded Warriors: Civil War AmputationBy: Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays [I]n the heat of battle, Civil War doctors often had to make quick diagnoses of soldiers’ injuries. According to The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65,...
Published: 6/30/13Gettysburg in ColorBy: Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays [E]dwin Forbes is best known today for his work during the Civil War as a special correspondent for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, to which he supplied a multitude of illustrations based...
Published: 3/12/13Civil War EnvelopesBy: Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays [F]or many Civil War soldiers, mail call was the highlight of the day. Handwritten letters from home served as a valuable lifeline to loved ones, maintaining morale and alleviating boredom....
Published: 4/5/12“Life Studies of the Great Army”By: Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays [A]t the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibit of 1876, Edwin Forbes, renowned for his work during the Civil War as a “special artist” for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, displayed a collection of copper...
Published: 8/3/11The War BeginsBy: Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays [I]n a nineteenth-century world free from blogs, social networking sites, television, and cell phones, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper thrived. Part picture, part story, Leslie’s publications combined visually stimulating engravings with journalistic articles to...