Kagan - Smithsonian Civil War

2013 by Smithsonian Institution
Curator portraits Matthew Girard
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Written by Smithsonian Contributors as listed on
Foreword by Jon Meacham
Introduction by Michelle Delaney
Note from the Secretary by G. Wayne Clough
Principal photography by Hugh Talman
Additional photography by Ernest Amoroso, Mildred Baldwin, Mark Gulezian, Donald Hurlbert, Eric Long, Jaclyn Nash, and Gene Young

Smithsonian Editorial Committee
Chair: Michelle Delaney
Project Leaders: Frank H. Goodyear III and Jennifer L. Jones
Members: James G. Barber, Tom Crouch, Rex M. Ellis, Paul Gardullo, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Pamela M. Henson, William S. Pretzer, Harry R. Rubenstein
Project Assistants: Sarah Campbell and Ryan Lintelman

Published by Smithsonian Books
Director: Carolyn Gleason
Production Editor: Christina Wiginton
Editorial Assistants: Leah Enser, Jane Gardner, Ashley Montague

Produced by Kagan & Associates, Inc.
Neil Kagan, President and Editor-in-Chief
Sharyn Kagan, Vice President and Director of Administration
Staff for Smithsonian Civil War
Editor: Neil Kagan
Text Editor: Stephen G. Hyslop
Design: Studio A
Art Director: Antonio Alcal
Designer: Leslie Badani
Military Historian: Harris J. Andrews
Copy Editor: Lise Sajewski
Indexer: Nanette Cardon

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection / Edited by Neil Kagan; Smithsonian Editorial Committee: James G. Barber, Tom Crouch, Michelle Delaney, Rex M. Ellis, Paul Gardullo, Frank H. Goodyear III, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Pamela M. Henson, Jennifer L. Jones, William S. Pretzer, Harry R. Rubenstein; Foreword by Jon Meacham; Introduction by Michelle Delaney; Principal photography by Hugh Talman.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-58834-389-5
1. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Exhibitions.
I. Kagan, Neil.
E467.S65 2013
973.7074dc23

2013017222

For permission to reproduce illustrations appearing in this book, please correspond directly with the museums, as listed on . Smithsonian Books does not retain reproduction rights for these images individually, or maintain a file of addresses for sources.

Endpapers: Pages from a Civil War-era photo album portray Jefferson Davis and an array of Confederate generals (front), and Ulysses S. Grant and other Union generals (back).
: A recruitment poster for the 119th Pennsylvania Infantry invites volunteers to join up at 204 Walnut Street in Philadelphia. The regiment that formed there later fought at Gettysburg.
: Two young Union soldiers sit for their portrait beside an unofficial American flag.
Page 3: This U.S. snare drum with a stenciled spread eagle urged men to battle during the war.

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Anacostia Community Museum

Alcione M. Amos, Researcher and Curator AMA

Consortium for Understanding the American Experience

Michelle Delaney, Director MD

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Sara D. Coffin, Curator and Head, Product Design and Decorative Arts SDC

Gail S. Davidson, Curator and Head, Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design GSD

National Air and Space Museum

Tom Crouch, Senior Curator of Aeronautics TC

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Nancy Bercaw, Curator of Community Life NB

Rex M. Ellis, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs RME

Paul Gardullo, Museum Curator PG

Michle Gates Moresi, Curator of Collections MGM

Elaine Nichols, Senior Curator of Culture EN

William S. Pretzer, Senior Curator of History WSP

Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Chief Curator JDS

National Museum of American History

David K. Allison, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs DKA

Joan Boudreau, Curator, Graphic Arts Collection JB

Judy M. Chelnick, Associate Curator, Medicine and Science JMC

Dick Doty, Curator, National Numismatic Collection RD

Natalie G. Elder, Collections Manager, Armed Forces History NGE

Kathy Golden, Associate Curator, Armed Forces History KG

Lisa Kathleen Graddy, Deputy Chair and Curator, Political History LKG

Barton C. Hacker, Curator, Armed Forces History BCH

Connie Holland, Records Assistant, Work and Industry CH

Debbie Schaefer-Jacobs, Associate Curator, Home and Community Life DSJ

Jennifer L. Jones, Chair and Curator, Armed Forces History JLJ

Stacey L. Kluck, Chair and Curator, Culture and the Arts SLK

Ryan Lintelman, Project Assistant, Armed Forces History RL

David D. Miller III, Associate Curator, Armed Forces History DDM

Mary Noxon, Research Assistant, National Numismatic Collection MN

Craig A. Orr, Associate Curator, Archives Center CAO

Shannon Thomas Perich, Curator, Photographic History STP

Harry R. Rubenstein, Chair and Curator, Political History HRR

Margaret Vining, Curator, Armed Forces History MV

Hal Wallace, Associate Curator, Electricity HW

Deborah Jean Warner, Curator, Physical Sciences DJW

Diane Wendt, Associate Curator, Medicine and Science DW

National Portrait Gallery

James G. Barber, Historian JGB

Sarah M. Campbell, Research Assistant, Department of Photographs SMC

Anne Collins Goodyear, Curator of Prints and Drawings ACG

Frank H. Goodyear III, Curator of Photographs FHG

Dorothy Moss, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture DM

E. Warren Perry Jr., Writer and Researcher for the Catalog of American Portraits EWP

Ann M. Shumard, Senior Curator of Photographs AMS

David C. Ward, Historian DCW

National Postal Museum

Cheryl R. Ganz, Chief Curator of Philately CRG

Lynn Heidelbaugh, Curator of Postal Operations LH

Thomas Lera, Winton M. Blount Research Chair TL

Nancy Pope, Curator of Postal Operations NP

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Eleanor Jones Harvey, Senior Curator EJH

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Pamela M. Henson, Director of the Institutional History Division PMH

Smithsonian Libraries

Lilla Vekerdy, Head of Special Collections LV

Thanks to Smithsonian staff and volunteers for their support: Ernest Amoroso, Renee S. Anderson, Mildred Baldwin, Mary Ballard, Amy Baskette, Courtney G. Bellizzi, Susan Brown, Kira Cherrix, Caitlin Condell, Laura Coyle, Brian I. Daniels, Kathleen Dorman, Mary Elliott, Petrina Foti, Amy Giarmo, Joshua Gorman, Carol Grissom, Mark Gulezian, Debra Hashim, Emily Houf, Donald Hurlbert, Melissa Keiser, Doug Litts, Nora Lockshin, William Lommel, Eric Long, Pat Mansfield, Ann McMullen, T. Logan Metesh, Christopher Milensky, Adam Minakowski, Jennifer Morris, Sara Murphy, Jaclyn Nash, NPM Collections and Conservation Departments, Daisy Njoku, Thomas Paone, Felicia Pickering, Gina Rappaport, Lizanne Reger, Jessica Rotella, Erin Rushing, Krewasky Salter, Heather Shannon, Richard Sorensen, Hugh Talman, Kirsten Tyree, Ruthann R. Uithol, Gene Young.