Jumat, 04 Agustus 2017

War Around the Edges

Midway through the war, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. urged Atlantic Monthly readers to study the gruesome photographs taken after the Battle of Antietam by Alexander Gardner. “Let him who wishes to know what the war is look at this series of illustrations,” Holmes declared. The images were, he said, “a commentary on civilization such as …

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