The Soldiers’ War

ConditionsDiseaseMedical care

U. S. Sanitary Commission/U. S. Christian Commission

Tactics and TechnologyHardee’s “Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics”Line versus column

The Soldiers’ War: A Gallery

Hardtack and pipe

Home Sweet Home

Fortifications at Petersburg

Line of Battle

Winslow Homer, “Defiance” (1864)

Homer, Prisoners from the Front

Andersonville

Field Hospital

Confederate field hospital

Carver Hospital, Washington, DC

Amputee and artificial leg

Brady: “The Dead at Antietam”

Campaign Strategy and Battle TacticsGettysburg

Invasion or “raid”Cavalry Concentration and FirepowerFlankArtilleryCorps

Brigade Regiment

CompanyPickett’s Charge 1Pickett’s Charge 2

Gettysburg Campaign

Gettysburg, Days One and Two

Gettysburg, Day Three

Gettysburg Cyclorama: “High Water Mark”