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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Relics of war
    sub title: the history of a photograph
  name:
    name part: Raab, Jennifer
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 218 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: How a single haunting image tells a story about violence, mourning and memory. In 1865, Clara Barton traveled to the site of the notorious Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, where she endeavored to name the missing and the dead. The future founder of the American Red Cross also collected their relics-whittled spoons, woven reed plates, a piece from the prison's "dead line," a tattered Bible and brought them back to her Missing Soldiers Office in Washington, D.C., presenting them to politicians, journalists and veterans' families before having them photographed together in an altar-like arrangement. Relics of War reveals how this powerful image, produced by Mathew Brady, opens a window onto the volatile relationship between suffering, martyrdom and justice in the wake of the Civil War. Jennifer Raab shows how this photograph was a crucial part of Barton's efforts to address the staggering losses of a war in which nearly half of the dead were unnamed and from which bodies were rarely returned home for burial. The Andersonville relics gave form to these absent bodies, offered a sacred site for grief and devotion, mounted an appeal on behalf of the women and children left behind and testified to the crimes of war. The story of the photograph illuminates how military sacrifice was racialized as political reconciliation began, and how the stories of Black soldiers and communities were silenced. Richly illustrated, Relics of War vividly demonstrates how one photograph can capture a precarious moment in history, serving as witness, advocate, evidence and memory.
  table of contents: Introduction: Gathering the dead -- Part I. Naming -- Part II. Collecting -- Part III. Evidence -- Conclusion: Near Andersonville.
  note: Jennifer Raab.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries.
  subject:
    topic: Images, Photographic
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Photography
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Photography
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
  subject:
    topic: ART / American / General
  classification: TR183 .R33 2024
  classification: 779
  identifier: 9780691179971
  identifier: 0691179972
  identifier: 9780691263502
  identifier: 2023056295
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240422
    record change date: 20260511193404.3
    record identifier: in00005778611