In Memory of the Confederate Dead
Gabriel James RainsDonaldson & Elmes Lithography Company BennettJames Ewell Brown Stuart, 6 Feb 1833 - 12 May 1864Leonidas Polk, 10 Apr 1806 - 14 Jun 1864Ambrose Powell Hill, 9 Nov 1825 - 2 Apr 1865Thomas Jonathan Jackson, 21 Jan 1824 - 10 May 1863John Hunt Morgan, 1 Jun 1825 - 4 Sep 1864Albert Sidney Johnston, 2 Feb 1803 - 6 Apr 1862
1861
- Medium
- Lithograph with tintstone on paper
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American Civil War (1861-1865)MustachesArts and CultureFacial hairFounderConfederate ArmyportraitsBishop
About
This lithograph covers several pages of sheet music for a piano solo titled “Requiem.” The music lacks lyrics, but the cover’s imagery and title reinforce its elegiac theme. Prominent Confederate generals killed in battle are represented in oval portraits, framed by interlacing banners bearing the names of fallen comrades. Stonewall Jackson’s central place in a slightly larger oval attests to his legendary stature, which was burnished by the publication of several flattering biographies in 1866.