Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death

List of Illustrations

I X List of Illustrations 1. Emblems of Mortality...Imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil, Switzerland 7 2. Joseph Ward, Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay, Jr., of the Second Kentucky Volunteers. At the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847 27 3. Frontispiece, Richard Alsop, The Echo, with other Poems, 1807 41 4. Certificate for the members of the New-Jersey Society for the Abolition of Slavery, ca. 1810 42 5. Nathaniel Currier, certificate for the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ca. 1835 43 6. Thomas Sparrow, advertisement for John Ashton, Importer and Manufacturer of Musical Instruments, ca. 1830 44 7. Alexandre & Cesar la recovient dans les cieux, ca. 1821 45 8. Washington Welcoming Lincoln into Heaven, 1865 68 9. The Desperation of a Mother, from The Anti-Slavery Record, September 1835 134 10. The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, who escaped from Richmond, Virginia in a box 3 feet long 2½ ft. deep and 2 ft. wide, 1850 136 11. From Reflections on Slavery; with Recent Evidence of its Inhumanity. Occasioned by the Melancholy Death of Romain, A French Negro, by Humanitas, 1803 145 12. From Jesse Torrey, Jun., Physician, Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States, 1817 147 13. From William Wells Brown, Clotel; or, the President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (1853) 149 14. James Baillie, In Memory of... , ca. 1845–1847 164 15. James Baillie, To the Memory of... 169 16. Nathaniel Currier, In Memory of... 170 17. Benjamin F. Nutting, To the Memory of... , 1837 171 18. James Baillie, The Mother’s Grave, 1848 174 19. Nathaniel Currier, To the Memory of... 175 20. Currier & Ives, The Soldier’s Grave, 1862 176 21. Elizabeth Louisa Foust with her dead child on her lap, ca. 1853 183 22. Alexander Gardner, “A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, VA., April, 1865” 185 X I L L U S T R A T I O N S 23. Alexander Gardner, “A Sharpshooter’s Last Sleep, Gettysburg, July, 1863” 187 24. Alexander Gardner, “Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, July, 1863” 188 25. George N. Barnard, “Scene of Gen. McPherson’s Death” 189 26. George N. Barnard, “Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia, No. 2” 190 27. George N. Barnard, “Buen-Ventura, Savannah, Ga.” 191 28. Alexander Gardner, “Field Where Gen. Reynolds Fell. Battle-Field of Gettysburg” 194 29. G. Q. Colton’s 1859 lithograph of Rembrandt Peale’s 1820 painting The Court of Death 197 30. Thomas C. Roche, “Dead Confederate Soldier in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia,” 1865 202 I L L U S T R AT I O N S X I This page intentionally left blank. ...