1862

Kearney [sic] at Battle of Williamsburg

Title inscribed lower right. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.501) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1862. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Private James W. McCulloch of Co. E, 7th Georgia Infantry Regiment ho...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Included in the case are a lock of hair tied with a pink ribbon, a published obituary, and a published poem "My Brother's Grave" by Dan Ashby. Handwritten on poem: "Father"... More

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Confederate fortifications. (This rampa...

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Bull Run, Virginia (vicinity). Sudley church through the trees

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Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia

Inflation of the balloon Intrepid to reconnoiter the Battle of Fair Oaks; Lowe, not visible in this image, is standing to the right of the balloon. No. 2350. Inscribed on item: Copyright 1910 by Patriot Publis... More

The October snow storm - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Penned on front of mount: 571. Amateur Photographic Exchange Club label affixed to verso gives title, photographer, photographer's address (No. 2 Wall Street, New York), date (exposed Oct. 15, 1862, developed N... More

[Oney S. A. Brock of Company I, 5th Virginia Cavalry Regiment with kni...

Photograph shows identified soldier, Oney (or Onie) Swepson A. Brock, who enlisted in Company I, 5th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, as a private and transferred to 15th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. More information i... More

Nat. Hayward (i.e. Heyward) House, 1860. General Saxton's residence, B...

Stereoview shows a street view of the residence and headquarters of Union Major General Rufus Saxton at the Whitehall ferry landing during the Union occupation of the Port Royal area. A wagon is stopped at the ... More

Township map of Berks County, Pennsylvania, from actual surveys /

Relief shown by hachures. Map of Pennsylvania on front lining paper. LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 6160 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index and adve... More

Prisoners captured at Woodstock, Virginia / E. Forbes.

"During the advance of Banks' Corps after the 1st battle of Winchester" on mount. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.29) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Hilton Head, South Carolina. Federal army bake house

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Culpeper Court House, Virginia. Scene in the town with Federal soldier...

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Terrific combat between the "Monitor" 2 guns & "Merrimac" 10 guns The ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6463 Exhibited: Capitol Visitors Center of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.

[James River, Virginia Bow of Confederate gunboat Teaser, Lt. Hunter D...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

[Cumberland Landing, Virginia Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, The Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

[Fair Oaks, Virginia, vicinity. Battery M., 2d U.S. Artillery, command...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Harrisons landing. Harness maker

Harness maker at work, separate sketch of man on horseback and man wearing top hat upper right. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.292) Reference print available in the Civil... More

The plains of Manassas, looking towards the Bull Run Mountains, from G...

"View of the plain of Manassas looking towards the Bull Run Mts. from Genl. Thos F. Meaghers Hqs. Irish Brigade Camps in the distance log huts built by the Army of Virginia occupied by Genl. Richardson's Div. S... More

[Bull Run, Virginia Federal cavalry at Sudley Ford]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, First Bull Run, July 1861.

Lewis H. Machen Family Papers: Diaries and Diary Transcriptions, 1860-...

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with stocked Colt pistol, Remin...

Case: Berg, no. 1-65. Soldier wears same uniform as Private Amos Reese of Company E, 10th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, whose photograph was published in Military images, November-December 2003 (XXV, 3), p. 28; pr... More

Belmont Cottage - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Public domain photograph of a lake, river, pond in the woods, forest, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The rebels covered by a ledge of rock repulsing the troops on the righ...

Signed lower left of image: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed vertically right margin: Genl Sumners attack. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.300) Reference print available in the Civil War Dr... More

The soldier's memorial - 34th Regt., N.Y.V., 1st Brigade, Company H., ...

Mustered into the State Service May 1, 1861. Mustered into United States Service June 15, 1861, for the term of two years. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale R... More

[Rappahannock River, Virginia Fugitive African Americans fording the R...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862, July-August 1862.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Clippings, 1863-1926, undated

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[Culpeper Court House, Virginia Court house, with a group of Confeder...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862, July-August 1862.

Abraham Lincoln, Friday, March 14, 1862 (Memorandum on West Point App...

William L. Utley to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, November 17, 1862 (Indic...

Antietam, Maryland. Dead soldiers on battlefield

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Beaufort, South Carolina. Boat landing, American Civil War Glass Negat...

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Third series of experiments with board trusses (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing men on board trusses. No. 36 (handwritten) and 2537 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United S... More

The soldier's record - Thirty-Ninth Regiment, Company G, Massachusetts...

Mustered into United States Service September 2d, 1862. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6001

Oliver L. Davis to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, February 03, 1862 (Recomm...

Antietam, Maryland. Captain J.M. Knap's Penn. Independent Battery "E" ...

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[Beaufort, S.C. General Isaac I. Stevens (seated) and staff on porch o...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862.

[The Peninsula, Virginia The staff of General Fitz-John Porter; Lts. W...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Bridge through the Chickahominy Swamp

Two cavalry men and a soldier crossing a "corduroy" log bridge. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed "[...] only." Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.177) Forms part of: ... More

Destruction of the locomotives on the bridge over the Chickahominy

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly. Inscribed over image: The R.R. Bridge was burned [?]. Trees too high. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.548) Re... More

Diccionario da lingua nbundu ou ngolense ...

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Corinth, Mississippi. Confederate dead in front of Battery Robinette t...

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Life in the country: morning - Engraving, Public domain image

Artist: Frances F. Palmer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3777

Building pontoon bridges at Fredericksburg Dec. 11th.

Engineers in foreground constructing bridge, while Fredericksburg burns in background. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above title: 50th Engineers. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.326) Referenc... More

Shelling the rebel works on the Chickahomy [sic] across the Mechanicsv...

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Shell exploding; Division same as in [ ] Junction; Use this for foreground make figures larger ; shell; June; Sheppard. Inscribed within image: Peach Tree; 10... More

Mount Pleasant Hospitals, Washington, D.C.

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Harrison's Landing, Virginia. General Samuel Heintzelman and staff

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Westover Landing, Virginia. James H. Childs and staff, 4th Pennsylvani...

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[Manassas, Virginia Confederate fortifications, with Federal soldiers]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862.

Confederate fortifications at Centreville, Virginia March 1862. Quaker...

No. B138. Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 6. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

The way of good & evil / drawn & published by John Hailer, Northempton...

Print shows people taking the road to a good life and people taking the road to an evil life. Published in: "The Puritan ethics," in American dream : A history of the United States / [Lew Smith] Lee Floren. 2n... More

[Fauquier Sulphur Springs, Virginia, vicinity. Troops building bridges...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862, July-August 1862.

Citizens Volunteer Hospital Philadelphia / des. & lith. by J. Queen ; ...

Print shows an exterior view of the Citizens Volunteer Hospital, corner of Broad St. & Washington Avenue, Philadelphia, with an interior view of a large hospital ward and vignette views of other hospital rooms,... More

[Third series of experiments with board trusses-shows the west end of ...

No. 39 (handwritten) and 2540 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

[Ruins of the Acquia Creek and Fredericksburg R.R. bridge, over Potoma...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.12) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Nine camp scenes] - Public domain scan / drawing

Title devised. Each scene is identified from left to right: The ice cart; city point; the water cart; Takeing [sic] Photographs; view from Dr. Starkes plantation; bringing goods ashore; searching for whiskey; n... More

[Nine camp scenes] - Public domain carriage drawing

Title devised. Each scene is identified from left to right: The ice cart; city point; the water cart; Takeing [sic] Photographs; view from Dr. Starkes plantation; bringing goods ashore; searching for whiskey; n... More

The Union & rebel officers taking the last drink after signing the pap...

Group of full-length images of officers standing and drinking in foreground, dwellings in background. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: scene on the beach Fredericksburg Va. Friday. Inscribed ... More

[Fair Oaks, Virginia, vicinity. Horatio G. Gibson's C and G Batteries]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

The battle at Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9th, 1862 Charge of Crawford's Brig...

Union and Confederate soldiers on battlefield. Print caption: Between the Corps d'armée of Genl. Banks, constituting a part of the Army of Virginia, under Genl. Pope and a vastly superior number of the Rebels u... More

Rebel fortification near Wynns Mill, Confederate States of America

Signed lower right: Alfred R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Stockade of pointed stakes; Rebel Camp Covered way. Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1862, pp. 296-7. Gift, J.P. Morg... More

Emancipation of the slaves, proclamed [i.e. proclaimed] on the 22nd Se...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Waeshle, J. Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of ... More

[Cumberland Landing, Virginia Federal encampment on Pamunkey River, Vi...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

The Curtis Estate, the scene of Washington's courtship & etc etc, Pamu...

Riverside scene, men unloading barrels from a ship, woman and child watch additional ships come in to shore, wagons for balloon gas generator and equipment in foreground. Ships, dwelling and soldiers milling ab... More

F. W. Powell to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, August 04, 1862 (Political a...

George A. S. Crooker to William H. Seward, Wednesday, October 08, 1862...

George A. S. Crooker to William H. Seward, Wednesday, October 08, 1862...

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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[Freemasons membership certificate] - Print, Library of Congress colle...

75 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Menzel (G.A.) & Co.

Port Royal Island, South Carolina. View on Mill's plantation

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Washington, District of Columbia. Wiard guns at U.S. Arsenal

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Portion of Rebel battery at Wynns Mill. The gun which wounded Lieut. W...

Signed lower left: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1862, p. 296. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.174) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings fil... More

Andrew Johnson to Horace Maynard, Wednesday, June 04, 1862 (Telegram ...

[Tad Lincoln, standing, leaning against a chair]

Notation on verso: "'Tad' Lincoln." Accessions box no. DLC/PP - 1972:018

Fight at Mechanicsville [changed to] Beaver Creek between McCalls divi...

Title inscribed above image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, July 26, 1862, p. 470 as "The Army of the Potomac-The Battle of Beaver Creek, June 26, 1862. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.694) Reference ... More

[Cumberland Landing, Virginia Federal encampment; another view]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Port Royal Island, Beaufort, South Carolina. Moss covered tomb over 15...

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Capture of Roanoke Island, Feby. 8th 1862: By the federal forces, unde...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0903

Samuel G. Daily to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, August 08, 1862 (Politics...

Guarding the Road to Windschester [sic]

Signed [T.T.R. Bott[?]]. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image: Occupied by Capt. Wallace of the Fourth Ohio Regiment under Brigadier Genl. Kelley Comand. Romny. Published in the New York Illustrat... More

Guarding the Road to Windschester [sic]

Signed [T.T.R. Bott[?]]. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image: Occupied by Capt. Wallace of the Fourth Ohio Regiment under Brigadier Genl. Kelley Comand. Romny. Published in the New York Illustrat... More

Reception of the officers of the Army by Secretary of War Stanton. Mon...

Drawing shows an interior scene of meeting, images detailed-several portraits of Union officers.

Turning over the bottom of an ark (Andrew J. Russel)

No. 7 (handwritten) and 2508 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Library... More

[The 1st Virginia Cavalry at a halt]

Title devised. Published in: Harper's Weekly, September 27, 1862, p. 612. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.764) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file E. Reference print available i... More

Eastern portion of the Military Department of North Carolina /

Relief shown by hachures. Incomplete copy of printed map. For a complete copy see entry no. 306.2 Shows roads, railroads, towns, drainage, and swamps. Following handwritten statement appears to left of map titl... More

Citizen volunteers assisting the wounded in the field of Battle

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC?PP_1919:R1.2.0546). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file U. Reference print availabe in Ray, Plate... More

[Antietam, Md. General Randolph B. Marcy with officers and civilians a...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. Capt. Wright Rives; John W. Garrett, Pres., Baltimore & Ohio R.R.; Orderly; Gen. Marcy; Lt. Col. Andrew P. Porter... More

Harrison House, Virginia - Public domain historic place drawing

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Smith per. Inscribed below image: Waud has photo of this. (Do this) Sketch of large man and rocky landscape on verso. Published in: Battles and Leaders of the... More

[Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in th...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

Group of Irish brigade as they lay on the battlefield of Antietam, 19t...

Photograph shows dead soldiers, members of the Irish brigade commanded by Gen. Thomas F. Meagher, on the battlefield of Antietam. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 550. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the yea... More

Abraham Lincoln. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter-length portrait, facing right, U.S. Capitol in background. No. 47 U.S. Copyright Office.

[Antietam, Md. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

[White House Landing, Virginia Ruins of the White House, burnt during ...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. These photographs reflect McClellan's advance from Yorktown to Fair Oaks, only five miles from Richmond. Some of the ... More

[Port Royal Island, S.C. African Americans preparing cotton for the gi...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862. Shows seven African Americans sitting in a pile of cotton in ... More

[Washington, D.C. Park of Wiard guns at the Arsenal; H.L. Stuart, Nath...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The first battle between "iron" ships of war

Print shows the Monitor and the Merrimack firing at each other during battle, with other battleships in the background, one sinking on the left. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862 by Henry B... More

Refugees leaving the old homestead during American Civil War

Stereograph showing a Union family on and around a horse drawn wagon loaded with furniture and belongings in the process of relocating northward.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Sketchbooks, 1863-1887, undated; Unnum...

Johnson's new illustrated (steel plate) family atlas, with description...

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Johnson's new illustrated (steel plate) family atlas, with description...

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