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 John Alan Maxwell American 1904 1984 Illustrator Painter Modernist Portrait $840.00 End Date: Thursday Jun-21-2012 8:29:13 PDT Buy It Now for only: $840.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 JACQUES CHAPIRO Russian 1887 1972 Oil on Board Original Judaica Christies 2 $710.00 (12 Bids) End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 18:10:49 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 John Alan Maxwell American 1904 1984 Illustrator Painter Modernist Nude $840.00 End Date: Thursday Jun-21-2012 6:54:33 PDT Buy It Now for only: $840.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 JACQUES CHAPIRO Russian 1887 1972 Oil on Board Original Judaica Christies E $425.00 (8 Bids) End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 18:11:18 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 John Alan Maxwell American 1904 1984 Illustrator Painter Modernist Nude 3 $840.00 End Date: Thursday Jun-21-2012 8:11:19 PDT Buy It Now for only: $840.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 1933 Incredibly PICASSO Genuine Signed Engraved drawing VERY RARE SUITE VOLLARD $305.00 (8 Bids) End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 10:58:06 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 John Alan Maxwell American 1904 1984 Illustrator Painter Modernist 3 nudes $460.00 End Date: Thursday Jun-21-2012 8:38:05 PDT Buy It Now for only: $460.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 John Alan Maxwell American 1904 1984 Illustrator Painter Modernist Nude 2 $840.00 End Date: Thursday Jun-21-2012 8:01:30 PDT Buy It Now for only: $840.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Rare Pre Civil War Southern Still Life dated 1857 Memphis Canvas $2,500.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 18:00:12 PDT Buy It Now for only: $4,500.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 John Alan Maxwell American 1904 1984 Illustrator Painter Modernist Nude 4 $840.00 End Date: Thursday Jun-21-2012 8:20:00 PDT Buy It Now for only: $840.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 PABLO PICASSO 1881 1964 RARE PICASSO PEN INK DRAWING STUNNING ORIGINAL $900.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 10:21:27 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Montgomery Alabama February 8 1861 Hand painted Civil War $59.00 End Date: Monday May-28-2012 11:53:32 PDT Buy It Now for only: $59.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 19thC Antique CIVIL WAR era DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN Estate PORTRAIT PAINTING $255.00 (13 Bids) End Date: Thursday May-24-2012 21:21:08 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 HENRY BACON WATER COLOR 1839 1912 $299.00 End Date: Tuesday Jun-12-2012 18:03:27 PDT Buy It Now for only: $299.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 JOHN JOSEPH ENNEKING American Impressionist Painting Monet Degas Matisse $8,500.00 End Date: Sunday Jun-17-2012 15:43:00 PDT Buy It Now for only: $8,500.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Original Watercolor Painting Military Civil War 1812 $29.95 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 22:58:06 PDT Buy It Now for only: $49.95 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 1856 SKETCH Border Ruffian Civil War Bowie Knife $12.85 End Date: Tuesday May-29-2012 11:00:24 PDT Buy It Now for only: $12.85 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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 Montgomery AL First Seat of the Rebel Government1861 Hand painted Civil War $59.00 End Date: Monday May-28-2012 11:50:16 PDT Buy It Now for only: $59.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Antique Water Color Painting Print Charles Marion Russell Scout 10x16 $50.00 End Date: Saturday Jun-16-2012 18:42:58 PDT Buy It Now for only: $50.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Original Oil Painting of a French Landscape by Pierre Bonnard Important Matisse $810.00 (4 Bids) End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 18:20:41 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Quechua Indian Bolivia South America Original Painting 10 x 16 Original $10.50 End Date: Saturday Jun-16-2012 12:45:51 PDT Buy It Now for only: $10.50 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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 Orphan Asylum Burning NY 1863 Hand paintedCivil War $120.00 End Date: Saturday Jun-16-2012 20:15:43 PDT Buy It Now for only: $120.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Original Painting James Wells Champney 1843 1903 $990.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 14:44:52 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Rare Ramon Puyol Modernist 1963 Oil Important Spanish Artist and Illustrator $1,299.00 End Date: Wednesday Jun-6-2012 14:43:12 PDT Buy It Now for only: $1,299.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Original Oil Painting of Civil War Battle Scene Signed $650.00 End Date: Tuesday Jun-12-2012 11:35:21 PDT Buy It Now for only: $650.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Original Watercolor Painting Military Civil War 1812 $29.95 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 22:58:06 PDT Buy It Now for only: $49.95 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 VIKTOR SHVAIKO ORIGINAL EVENING GLOW ON THE BOULEVARD $17,750.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 14:20:10 PDT Buy It Now for only: $17,750.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Original gouache and watercolor painting signed Pablo Picasso w COA $400.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 14:48:01 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Gone With The Wind 18x27 A P Framed Limited Edition Thomas Kinkade Canvas Oil $1,595.00 End Date: Thursday Jun-7-2012 6:45:18 PDT Buy It Now for only: $1,595.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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 Ft Morgan AL 1864 Hand painted Civil War $59.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 16:01:27 PDT Buy It Now for only: $59.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 ORIG WATERCOLOR RED HOUSE LISTED ARTIST JERRY ELLIS WHISKER PAINTERS OF AMERICA $145.00 End Date: Tuesday Jun-5-2012 14:11:05 PDT Buy It Now for only: $145.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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 Union Works Before Petersburg 1864 Hand painted Civil War $42.00 End Date: Saturday Jun-16-2012 20:15:43 PDT Buy It Now for only: $42.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Painting of Civil War Gentleman $125.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 9:32:08 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Fairmount Park IL 1883 Hand painted Amer Illus $59.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 16:06:09 PDT Buy It Now for only: $59.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 VIKTOR SHVAIKO ORIGINAL VIBRANT SANTORINI GREECE $12,200.00 End Date: Tuesday May-29-2012 9:34:31 PDT Buy It Now for only: $12,200.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 ALBERT INSLEY Signed Oil Canvas Lovely River Scene $849.99 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 18:48:52 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Heritage Mint LTD Artist Hank Richter Picacho Pass Cavalry Brass Buckle $29.95 End Date: Saturday Jun-9-2012 8:29:08 PDT Buy It Now for only: $29.95 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL PAINTING SET OF 2 HE AND SHE BY ALEXANDRA ZUEVA $799.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 12:17:21 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Artist Signed Watercolor Landscape HARM 1880s $74.99 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 18:55:37 PDT Buy It Now for only: $74.99 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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 1860s Civil War Oil Painting Cavalry Officer Funeral $424.95 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 13:13:00 PDT Buy It Now for only: $424.95 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 LISTED FAMOUS RUSSIA RARE RUSSIAN IVAN SHISHKIN FOREST LANDSCAPE OIL PAINTING $680,000.00 End Date: Monday May-28-2012 5:28:29 PDT Buy It Now for only: $680,000.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 F M Holmes oil painting of Snoqualmie Falls Wahington $1,250.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 18:02:48 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL PAINTING MADONNA BY ALEXANDRA ZUEVA $500.00 End Date: Thursday May-24-2012 4:30:02 PDT Buy It Now for only: $500.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 ORIGINAL PICASSO SIGNED COA PROVENANCE OLD ESTATE $695.00 End Date: Thursday May-24-2012 18:24:59 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Battle of Rich Mountain July 13 1861 Hand painted Civil War $120.00 End Date: Saturday Jun-16-2012 20:15:42 PDT Buy It Now for only: $120.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Balloon View of Washington DC May 1861 Hand painted Civil War $120.00 End Date: Saturday Jun-16-2012 20:15:43 PDT Buy It Now for only: $120.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 ORIGINAL PICASSO SIGNED COA PROVENANCE OLD ESTATE $695.00 End Date: Thursday May-24-2012 18:28:10 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 7th Regiment Marching Down Broadway NY 1861 Hand painted Civil War $120.00 End Date: Saturday Jun-16-2012 20:15:43 PDT Buy It Now for only: $120.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Peaceful Dying UNION SOLDIER Painting by Gillette SUPERB Civil War RIP $125.00 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 8:23:17 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Olive MacIver 1959 Wickford RI Winter River Barn Scene Art Festival Oil Board $225.00 End Date: Saturday Jun-16-2012 14:45:09 PDT Buy It Now for only: $225.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 US CAMEL CORPS PAINTING PLUS 5 STAKE IN OUR MOVIE $50,000.00 End Date: Thursday May-24-2012 3:54:37 PDT Buy It Now for only: $75,000.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Two pictures Civil war soldiers screen printed on wood VTG Both North South $34.99 End Date: Wednesday Jun-13-2012 19:12:17 PDT Buy It Now for only: $34.99 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 2 600 DBL SIGNED Beyond Autumn Gate 24x30 A P Framed Limited Kinkade Canvas Oil $3,100.00 End Date: Tuesday Jun-19-2012 15:31:05 PDT Buy It Now for only: $3,100.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Mort Kunstler Civil War painting matted framed and signed $100.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 13:30:01 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 MORGANS RAID CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE ORIGINAL SIGNED ARTWORK STORY BY WWII ARTIST $314.99 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 14:08:24 PDT Buy It Now for only: $314.99 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Patriotic American Eagle Primitive Antique Folk Art OUR RIGHTS OUR LIBERTIES $74.00 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 18:20:13 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Original gouache and watercolor painting signed Pablo Picasso w COA $1,350.00 End Date: Sunday Jun-3-2012 7:41:44 PDT Buy It Now for only: $1,350.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Very Rare Surreal Composition Drawing Signed Joan Miro Picasso Dali time $45.00 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 13:42:39 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Little Juaniata PA 1883 Hand painted Amer Illus $59.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 16:01:27 PDT Buy It Now for only: $59.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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 Antique Russian Icon of The Holy Archangel Micheal $550.00 End Date: Tuesday Jun-12-2012 0:38:04 PDT Buy It Now for only: $550.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 3 Art Books WINSTON CHURCHILL WINSLOW HOMER plus German Modern c 1960 $9.95 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 18:00:32 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Frederick Douglass Signed Original Canvas Art Painting $39.99 End Date: Monday Jun-11-2012 22:02:04 PDT Buy It Now for only: $39.99 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Study of Civil War Peace Monument 1899 Original Plan $59.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 18:28:12 PDT Buy It Now for only: $59.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Original Mary Lou Goertzen Watercolor 1960s Berkeley Art No Reserve $375.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 21:12:57 PDT Buy It Now for only: $1,200.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Beautiful Signed Oil Painting Silver Saxophone Fruit $74.95 End Date: Wednesday Jun-13-2012 3:03:09 PDT Buy It Now for only: $74.95 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 PAINTING OF ROBERT E LEE STILL IN PLASTIC $40.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 15:36:54 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 HISTORIC ANTONIO SUAREZ SPANISH GRUPO EL PASO 1960 OIL ON CANVAS $2,343.75 End Date: Friday Jun-15-2012 9:40:51 PDT Buy It Now for only: $2,343.75 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 AMERICAN SCHOOL PAINTING CHILDREN AT PLAY CIVIL WAR ERA $199.00 End Date: Monday May-28-2012 19:53:35 PDT Buy It Now for only: $249.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 CIVIL WAR GENERAL JOHN MORGANS RAID CONFEDERATE CSA CAVALRY SIGNED PAINTING $179.99 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 14:02:44 PDT Buy It Now for only: $179.99 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Duponts Expedition Departure SCHand paintedCivil War $59.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 16:09:11 PDT Buy It Now for only: $59.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 VIETNAM FOLK PAINTING A LANDSCAPE OF JEALOUS $10.00 End Date: Sunday May-27-2012 9:06:02 PDT Buy It Now for only: $13.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Vintage Outsider Art Painting Ohio Earl Beymer Courthouse American Flag $78.00 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 2:49:54 PDT Buy It Now for only: $78.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 ARTIST J L STEWART JULIUS LeBLANC STEWART UNTITLED CIVIL WAR AFFECTS REALITY $5,000.00 End Date: Tuesday May-29-2012 10:38:14 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Ruins of Chambersburg PA 1862 Hand paintedCivil War $59.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 16:07:39 PDT Buy It Now for only: $59.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 Rare Civil War Admiral Raphael Semmes Confederate US Navy Bainbridge Painting $199.99 End Date: Tuesday May-29-2012 18:05:27 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Civil War Portrait and Grouping of Joel Parmenter 184th New York Infantry 1864 $450.45 End Date: Wednesday May-23-2012 6:36:33 PDT Buy It Now for only: $450.45 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 LARGE Antique Americana Folk Art Painting of Boy Civil War Col Orlando H Moore $5,999.99 End Date: Wednesday May-30-2012 21:15:01 PDT Buy It Now for only: $5,999.99 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 John Brantley Wilder Still Life Original Oil on Canvas Signed Dated 1949 $12,500.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 17:28:35 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 Siege of Knoxville TN 1863 Hand painted Civil War $59.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 14:57:56 PDT Buy It Now for only: $59.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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 Siege of Knoxville Map 1863 Hand painted Civil War $59.00 End Date: Saturday May-26-2012 18:28:12 PDT Buy It Now for only: $59.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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 Rare Water Color Painting by Tx artist Isabel Robinson $74.95 End Date: Wednesday Jun-13-2012 3:03:09 PDT Buy It Now for only: $74.95 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 1940s illustration painting for book or magazine lstd artist John Alan Maxwell $595.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 13:26:06 PDT Buy It Now for only: $595.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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More Great Information on Civil War:
Causes of the American Civil War: Federal Versus State Power and Abolition
For most American students, some of the best days of elementary school are the ones leading up to Thanksgiving. We make handprint turkeys from construction paper, learn about corn, beans, and squash, and hear all about the idyllically symbiotic early interactions between Europeans and Native Americans. Life is good.
A few years down the road, the picture changes somewhat. We hear tell of fighting and betrayal – or even death. It was all just a big misunderstanding, we’re told. We move on. But every so often, we get an additional glimpse of the horror surrounding early European involvement in the New World so that, by the time we’re adults, we can better handle the fact that a fifth of the planet’s population (guess which fifth) died as a result of Columbus sailing the ocean blue.
This baby-steps process of learning about
the Columbian Exchange
is more or less the American template for dealing with bad history. Just think back on the early days of school you spent tackling the Civil War. The lessons probably consisted of making stove-pipe hats and fake Lincoln beards – and joyfully hearing about how the war eradicated slavery.
As early teens, we start reading about things like how Lincoln, dictator-style, not only gave speeches declaring that he would support slavery if it meant saving the Union, but also suspended the writ of habeas corpus. Regardless of whether we’d even heard of habeas corpus up until this point, the moment feels like a bad breakup. As time goes on, a new piece is added to the puzzle. Although Lincoln remained publicly neutral toward slavery, he condemned it privately. This leads to another epiphany: politicians can be misleading. By the time we’re in college, we’ve basically lost any footing we thought we had in the argument.
People throw a lot of names around whenever they talk about the
causes of the Civil War
– John Brown, Dred Scott, the Mason-Dixon Line… Lincoln comes up every now and again – but something that doesn’t often get its fair share of the attention is federal versus state power. No, it’s not as catchy as some of the other topics, nor can it easily be characterized via macaroni and construction paper, but the fact that it’s basically the longest running argument in US history ought to give us some pause for thought.
After all, this is the stuff our founding fathers saw fit to duel each other over. When Aaron Burr was busy shooting Alexander Hamilton, the US was less than half the size it was during Lincoln’s inauguration. Suffice it to say that the issue of central control gets even trickier after your country has stretched all the way across the continent.
Secessionists believed that the US government should ideally be a loose pact between states and that the federal government should have no power beyond what is explicitly outlined by the Constitution. Unionists, on the other hand, tended toward stronger central powers and a looser interpretation of the Constitution. They resented the idea a slave could be taken into a free state with no consequences from the federal government simply because somewhere, a slaveholding state said it was a-okay.
Secessionists have since been accused of using the states’ rights argument to defend slavery… just like unionists have been accused of using
abolition
to disguise an interest in increasing federal power. Either way, all the political, racial, financial, and moral grounds for fighting touched on the same old issue. And if you think that the Civil War was the final word on federal versus state power, just check out the Alaskan Independence party, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Confederate flag, the hard liquor smuggled into Utah, or the legitimacy of a same-sex marriage license in a state like Arkansas.
Civil War:What were the difference between the North and the South in the Civil War?
Could anyone help me Compare and contrast the North and the South in the civil war?
The north was industrial based. The south was agriculturally based. The federal government began gaining too much power and wanted to have all cotton grown in the south processed in the north; however, the south could get better prices overseas (England). The south didn't like being told what to do and tried to succeed. The civil war started over the right to succeed from the union. For the first year or so, the civil war had nothing to do slavery. In fact, many northern officers publicly stated that they would call a temporary truce to help put down any slave rebellions. However, the war wasn't going well so the federal government made the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves. The north was industrialized. Once they started producing more quantities of better quality artillery, the war turned for the norths favor.
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