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Romance Marches Toward Reality:
In this Currier and Ives lithograph of the Battle of Mill Spring in Kentucky, top left, Union forces charged the enemy in perfect formation. Even more graphic, top center, is Arthur Lumley's pencil drawing at Antietam. More realistic, top right, is an engraving of Alfred Waud's sketch of Union troops at Gettysburg The horror of Antietam was best captured by Alexander Gardner's photo, left. |