Unidentified Union amputee in leaf from Catalpa "witness tree," Falmouth, VA. This leaf was plucked from the tree at Chatham Manor where in 1862, after the Battle of Fredericksburg, Whitman saw a pile of amputated limbs tossed out of the window of the manor house Union surgeons were using to treat casualties. The trees are still there, leafing and blooming each spring. © Robert Schultz
Unidentified Confederate soldier in Appomattox battlefield oak leaf. Chlorophyll print from War Memoranda exhibition, 13 x 10 inches framed. Original image appropriated from the Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress. Used with permission. At Appomattox, the Tibbs Place homestead saw the last skirmish of the war. The leaf used here was taken from a "descendant tree" of the great oak that still stands near the Tibbs Place cellar hole. © Robert Schultz & Binh Danh
Walt Whitman (1854) in Camden House hosta leaf. Chlorophyll print from War Memoranda exhibition. Original image appropriated from the Library of Congress collection. Used with permission. This leaf was taken, with permission, from the back garden of the house in Camden, NJ, where Whitman spent the last years of his life. It was developed by the artist in the back window of his car as he drove home to Virginia. © Robert Schultz & Binh Danh
Walt Whitman (1887) in Camden House hosta leaf. Chlorophyll print from War Memoranda exhibition. Original image appropriated from the Library of Congress collection. Used with permission. This leaf was taken, with permission, from the back garden of the house in Camden, NJ, where Whitman spent the last years of his life. It was developed by the artist in the back window of his car as he drove home to Virginia. © Robert Schultz & Binh Danh
Wartime Whitman wartime portrait by Matthew Brady in hosta leaf. Chlorophyll print from War Memoranda exhibition, 13 x 10 inches framed. Original image used with permission of the Library of Congress. © Robert Schultz & Binh Danh
Chlorophyll print from War Memoranda exhibition, 13 x 10 inches framed. Original image appropriated from the Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress. Used with permission. © Robert Schultz & Binh Danh
Unidentified African American soldier with family (detail of original) in elephant ear leaf. Chlorophyll print from War Memoranda exhibition. Original image appropriated from the Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress. Used with permission. © Robert Schultz & Binh Danh
Confederate soldier William Anthony Holland with pistol and Bowie knife in hosta leaf. Chlorophyll print from War Memoranda exhibition, 13 x 10" framed. Original image appropriated from the Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress. Used with permission. Previously catalogued as "unidentified," this portrait was recognized by a descendant when War Memoranda was shown at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA. Based on this identification, the Library of Congress entry has been updated to include Mr. Holland's name. © Robert Schultz & Binh Danh
Unidentified Confederate surgeon in variegated hosta leaf. Chlorophyll print from War Memoranda exhibition, 13 x 10 inches framed. Original image appropriated from the Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress. Used with permission. © Robert Schultz & Binh Danh
Unidentified Confederate soldier in variegated hosta leaf. Chlorophyll print from War Memoranda exhibition, 13 x 10 inches framed. Original image appropriated from the Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress. Used with permission. © Robert Schultz & Binh Danh
Unidentified young Union soldier in variegated hosta leaf. Chlorophyll print from War Memoranda exhibition, 13 x 10" framed. Original image appropriated from the Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress. Used with permission. © Robert Schultz & Binh Danh
Unidentified girl in mourning dress with photograph in elephant ear leaf. Chlorophyll print from War Memoranda exhibition. Original image appropriated from the Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress. Used with permission. © Robert Schultz & Binh Danh
Unidentified Confederate soldier with woman and child in elephant ear leaf. © Robert Schultz
Walt Whitman, ca. 1869, from the original photograph by G. Frank Pearsall, Library of Congress, chlorophyll print in bodhi fig leaf (9.5 x 9 inches, leaf dimensions). This leaf, photographed here against a black background, now has been applied to paper in the artist's book, Face to Face. © Robert Schultz
Unidentified Union soldier in leaf from the Brompton Oak "witness tree," Fredericksburg, VA. During the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, the Brompton Oak sheltered wounded Union soldiers. The above chlorphyll print was photographed against a black background before it was attached to a broadside for In This Chemistry Distill'd. © Robert Schultz