{"id":972,"date":"2010-02-10T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:28:37","slug":"john-omenhausser-civil-war-sketchbook-1864-1865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/02\/10\/john-omenhausser-civil-war-sketchbook-1864-1865\/","title":{"rendered":"John Omenhausser, Civil War Sketchbook (1864-1865)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1903.1\/4939\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-971\" style=\"border: 3px solid black\" title=\"sketchbook1\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/02\/sketchbook1.jpg\" alt=\"sketchbook1\" width=\"350\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/02\/sketchbook1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/02\/sketchbook1-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Confederate John Jacob Omenhausser, who was captured in 1864 and spent about a year at a Union prison camp in Maryland, <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1903.1\/4939\" target=\"_blank\">filled a sketchbook<\/a> with over sixty paintings of camp life.  The University of Maryland does not have all of Omenhausser\u2019s paintings, but this one is the largest. Omenhausser, who served with the 46th Virginia Infantry, moved to Richmond after the war and worked as a candy maker. He had two children and later died in 1877. The University of Maryland has a number of other interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umd.edu\/digital\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">digital collections<\/a> available, including the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umd.edu\/dcr\/collections\/sterling\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Sterling Family Papers<\/a>\u201d \u2013 which I highlighted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=861\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confederate John Jacob Omenhausser, who was captured in 1864 and spent about a year at a Union prison camp in Maryland, filled a sketchbook with over sixty paintings of camp life. The University of Maryland does not have all of Omenhausser\u2019s paintings, but this one is the largest. Omenhausser, who served with the 46th Virginia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,156],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-images","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}