Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union

adhesiveness aesthetic album allegory American antebellum Antietam appears argues army Atlanta Barnard battle Battle-Pieces body politic Brady Brady's camera Civil claims Confederate conventions corpse cultural daguerreotype dead death describes displaced disruption Drum-Taps economic edition of Leaves embodiment example exchange experience Federal figure Gardner's Photographic Sketch genre Gettysburg harmony Harper's Weekly history painting Holmes human ideal ideological individual interdiction labor land landscape Leaves of Grass legitimate Leo Marx Library of Congress Lincoln means Melville Melville's Memoranda metaphor military Moby-Dick narrative nature Northern organicist painting pastoral mode photographic representation Photographic Sketch Book Photographic Views picturesque plate poem poet poetry political representation portrait produced recuperate represented restorative rhetoric sacrifice scene seems semiotic sense Sherman's Campaign significant soldiers Southern Specimen Days structure suggests synecdoche textual Thomas Cole Thomas Nast topoi traces trope typification Union Views of Sherman's violence visual War photography White-Jacket Whitman wounded