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National Portrait Gallery Opens Two Civil War Exhibits

by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) on Mar 31st 2012 at 10:00AM

The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., is commemorating the Civil War with two new exhibits.

"The Confederate Sketches of Adalbert Volck" looks at the work of a rebel dentist who became one of the Confederacy's leading political cartoonists. Unlike most German immigrants, who sided with the Union, Volck was an active rebel who not only fought the Union with his pen, but also smuggled much-needed medical supplies to the South. The exhibit runs until January 21, 2013.

More famous is photographer Mathew Brady, whose portable photographic studio is shown above. "Mathew Brady's Photographs of Union Generals" make up the second exhibition. Numerous high-quality images of the Union's leading and lesser-known generals will be on display. The exhibit runs until May 31, 2015.

The exhibitions are part of a continuing series at the National Portrait Gallery marking the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War.

Photo courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Learning, Photos, North America, United States

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