...which the truthful sunbeam has delineated in all their dread reality." They offered chastening lessons: "Let him who wishes to know what war is look at this series of illustrations." But for Holmes, the scenes were too painful, too real, and they finally needed to be excluded from...

...so the deadly specifics of human warfare could be erased from personal as well as national memory. "Let him who wishes to know what war is look at this series of illustrations," he wrote. "It was so nearly like visiting the battlefield to look over these views, that all the emotions...

...our dooryard and along the streets, he has done something very like it," wrote the New York Times. "Let him who wishes to know what war is look at this series of illustrations," wrote American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. President Lincoln was displeased by the way General...