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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Smithsonian Contributors
A Note From the Secretary
Contents
Foreword
Introduction / Civil War 150
1 Wartime Smithsonian
2 “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”
3 Ending the Gag Rule
4 Inventions for Planters
5 Prewar Portraits
6 Sold Down the River
7 Skilled Slave Workers
8 The Price of Freedom
9 Frederick Douglass
10 John Brown
11 Fugitives or Freedom Seekers?
12 Harriet Beecher Stowe
13 Bleeding Kansas
14 Douglas and Lincoln
15 “The Animal Himself”
16 The Election of 1860
17 Dissolving the Union
18 Passage through Baltimore
19 Lincoln’s First Inauguration
20 The Fire-Eater’s War
21 Secrets in Lincoln’s Watch
22 Flags for a New Nation
23 General Scott and Colonel Lee
24 Parting Ways at West Point
25 Militia Uniforms
26 The Seamstress and the First Ladies
27 Confederate Money Made in New York
28 The Bowie Knife
29 A Call to Arms
30 Patriotic Prints for Unionists
31 The Death of Ellsworth
32 Dashing Zouaves
33 Wartime Photography
34 Portraits to Keep Loved Ones Close
35 Collecting Cartes-de-Visite
36 Pioneering Photojournalists
37 Lincoln’s Air Force
38 Contrabands
39 Keeping Confederates Posted
40 Clara Barton
41 Berdan’s Sharpshooters
42 The Emergence of Grant
43 Men of Progress
44 The Wartime Patent Office
45 The Union’s Constructive Genius
46 Saving Old Glory
47 Tribes at War
48 The Young Napoleon
49 Chickahominy Fever
50 Hardtack and Coffee
51 Union Infantry Gear
52 Confederate Infantry Gear
53 Lincoln’s Henry Rifle
54 Civil War Belt Plates
55 The Music of War
56 Admiral Farragut
57 The Vanity of Beast Butler
58 A Gift for Secretary Chase
59 Early Prisoners of War
60 Baseball in Prison
61 Civil War Headgear
62 The Telegraph at War
63 Writing the Emancipation Proclamation
64 Lincoln at Antietam
65 Letters Home
66 The Iron Mine
67 The Destructive Minié Ball
68 Printing Presses in Action
69 Day of Deliverance
70 The Lord Is My Shepherd
71 Fighting for Freedom
72 Money in Many Forms
73 Winning with Greenbacks
74 The Gray Ghost
75 Coping with the Blockade
76 Gordon’s Journey
77 Southern Illustrated News
78 J.E.B. Stuart’s Pistol
79 Rewarding Grant’s Triumph at Vicksburg
80 Port Hudson Burial Post
81 Colors of the 84th Infantry
82 Woodblock Printing
83 Searching for Shoes in Gettysburg
84 Depicting Camp Life
85 The Sacrifice of Strong Vincent
86 A Harvest of Death
87 A Haunting Relic of Gettysburg
88 Treating the Wounded
89 Badge of Honor
90 New York Draft Riots
91 The General and the Actress
92 The Rock of Chickamauga
93 The Odyssey of Solomon Conn
94 Uniforms at Schuylkill Arsenal
95 Long Arms
96 At Home in Camp
97 Autograph Leaves
98 Grant Versus Lee
99 Winslow Homer’s War Drawings
100 Shattered at Spotsylvania
101 Sherman Moves South
102 Bird’s-Eye View of Andersonville
103 The Dictator
104 Designating Flags
105 Civil War Plans for Planes
106 Arming the Navies
107 “God Helps Those Who Help Themselves”
108 The Other War
109 The Letters of Solomon Brown
110 Equipping the Cavalry
111 Handguns
112 Sheridan’s Warhorse
113 Election of 1864
114 The Miscegenation Ball
115 Aurora Borealis
116 The Fall of Fort Fisher
117 The Thirteenth Amendment
118 Hell and Damnation
119 Surrender at Appomattox
120 Appomattox Parole
121 Dignified in Defeat
122 Inside the Confederate White House
123 The Promise of Freedom
124 Grant and His Generals
125 Burial Party
126 Documenting the Wounded
127 The Cracked Negative
128 A Final Cup of Coffee
129 A Night with Laura Keene
130 Deathbed of the President
131 Abraham Lincoln’s Top Hat
132 Wanted for Murder
133 The Richmond Hoard
134 Death to the Conspirators
135 A Funeral Procession 1,700 Miles Long
136 The Fate of Mary Lincoln
137 Bringing Images of War Home
138 Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook
139 The Medal of Honor
140 Presentation Swords
141 Honoring Black Troops
142 Sojourner Truth
143 A Visit from the Old Mistress
144 The Voyage of Robert Smalls
145 Remembering Slavery
146 The Moses of Her People
147 Songs of the South
148 Wars in the West
149 Reunions and Rememberance
150 Designing the Lincoln Penny
Object List
Index
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