Revolutionary War

Death of Gen. Warren in 1775 by John Trumbull (painted c. 1815)
Mexican War

Battle of Buena Vista, print by H.R. Robinson (1847)
Civil War

Confederate Dead at Antietam (1862) by Alexander Gardner

Pvt. Amos Humiston’s Children (CDV, 1863)
World War I

Perfect Soldier cartoon, by Robert Minor (1916)

Uncle Sam recruiting poster, by James Montgomery Flagg, 1917
World War II

Marine flag-raising on Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal, 1945
Vietnam War

Girl (Phan Kim Phuc) Running from Napalm attack, by Nick Ut, 1972
War on Terror

Pvt. Lyndie England with Iraqi prisoner at Abu Ghraib, 2003