"Reflecting on the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, this notable book brings together a range of media and perspectives that show how the conflict has been recorded and remembered over time. Fifteen essays written by leading scholars in a variety of disciplines explore visual representations of the war and its remembrance from the mid-19th century to the present. The text is organized in four sections on the themes of home, the battlefield, public space, and heroism."--Publisher's website.

Includes index. "Proceedings of the symposium "The Civil War in Art and Memory," organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. The symposium was held November 8-9, 2013, in Washington."

Preface / Elizabeth Cropper -- Introduction / Kirk Savage -- Home. The freedom to marry for all : painting interracial families during the era of the Civil War / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw ; Northern vision, southern land : designs for freedom on Hilton Head Island, 1862-1880 / Dana E. Byrd ; "Our sketches are all real, not mere imaginary affairs" : the visualization of the 1863 New York Draft riots / Joshua Brown -- Battlefield. The summer of 1863 : Lincoln and black troops / James Oakes ; The wounded Zouave and the Cyrenian paradigm / Richard J. Powell ; The unknowable dead : the Civil War and the origins of modern commemoration / Kirk Savage ; Photographic remains : Sally Mann at Antietam / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Public space. "To strike terror" : equestrian monuments and southern power / Maurie D. Mcinnis ; "Great Generals and Christian soldiers" : commemorations of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Civil Rights era / Evie Terrono ; The long shadow of the Civil War / Dell Upton -- Heroism. Consecration and monument : Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts regiment, and the Shaw memorial / Henry J. Duffy ; The problem of racial hierarchy in the Shaw memorial / Charles H. Karelis ; Unknowns : commemorating black women's Civil War heroism / Micki Mcelya ; William James, the memory of glory, and the work of mourning / Robert H. Bell ; The peaceable war memorial / Thomas J. Brown.