Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, Reference MaterialsDuration: 15 MinutesDate Posted: 7/10/2009
In this online exhibition, students can see a dramatic recreation of how the Travis Panorama would have been presented, using the original narration .Near the end of the Civil War, veterans of the Army of the Cumberland commissioned the artist William D. T. Travis to memorialize the career of General William S. Rosecrans and his campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee. Travis produced a huge panorama on a single roll of canvas over 500 feet long. Today, the original panorama is too fragile for display. The Travis Panorama is part of the online exhibition West Point in the Making of America.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
During the Civil War, officers wore many types of hats, more often non-regulation than regulation...
war, art, United States army, panorama, Thomas, George, nineteenth century, 19th Century, United States Military Academy, West Point, Nashville, Army, history, USMA, art history, emancipation proclamation, American Civil War, 1800, Civil War, US army, military history
Fleishman's depiction of the first Civil War battle relies on individual voices to give a human f...
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