1862

Denning to Anson Stager, Thursday, December 11, 1862 (Telegram concer...

Hanami no en - Public domain drawing

Ukiyo-e diptych showing richly-dressed man, two children, and two women in a richly-appointed interior. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06... More

Francis P. Griffith to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, November 30, 1862 (Se...

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Southward from the university steeple. Troy N.Y.

Penciled on front of mount: 460. Amateur Photographic Exchange Club label affixed to verso gives title, photographer, date, number (44), and negative (tannin). Amateur Photographic Exchange Club. Forms part of... More

[Antietam, Md. Another view of Antietam bridge]

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

[Letter from J. Hartwell Keyes to Diantha from Halls Hill, Virginia, o...

Handwritten letter from Private John Hartwell Keyes of Co. F, 18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, on pictorial lettersheet showing Lincoln and McClellan reviewing the Army of the Potomac. Caption on print: R... More

[Manassas, Virginia Confederate fortifications, with Federal soldiers]

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

Bound volume---13 July 1862-16 May 1864

[Centreville, Virginia Confederate winter quarters] - 19th century Vir...

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

Irvin McDowell to Edwin M. Stanton, Wednesday, June 04, 1862 (Telegra...

Centreville, Virginia. Grigsby house, headquarters of General Joseph E...

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

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[Ford near Shepherdstown, on the Potomac. Pickets firing across the ri...

Soldiers resting, and firing guns on the banks of the Potomac. Title devised from Harpers Weekly. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1862. Inscribed upper left: 1st [illegible inscription] Gift, J.P. Mo... More

Dogs, pots & cucumbers for sale. Moscow

Drawing shows an outdoor market in Moscow. A beleagered man in top hat and long coat, perhaps Taylor himself, tries to fend off three vendors: one holds dogs by the scruff of their necks, another offers a small... More

Confederate soldier, who, after being wounded, had dragged himself to ...

Photograph shows a dead Confederate soldier lying on his back in a little ravine on the battlefield at Antietam, Md. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 554. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Al... More

Photographer at Manassas, July 1862 during American Civil War

Photograph shows a portable photographer's darkroom on wheels and possibly Timothy O'Sullivan standing next to it. (Source: Stereograph of similar image at the New York Historical Society). No. 651. Alternate ... More

[Cumberland Landing, Virginia Secret Service men at Foller's House]

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

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Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey

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Expedients for crossing streams (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing two blanket boats in midground. No. 17 (handwritten) and 2518 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere ... More

Military bridge, across the Chickahominy, Virginia / negative by D.B. ...

Photograph by D.B. Woodbury and Alexander Gardner, for the Mathew B. Brady Studio. Copyright by A. Gardner. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Phil... More

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. Headquarters of General George B. McCle...

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

Yorktown, Virginia. Street view - 19th century Virginia.

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[John N. A. Griswold house (now Newport Art Museum), Newport, Rhode Is...

Inscribed in pencil J. Griswold [?]. Notation on verso: HWM1.1.3. Also: P.50. Floor plan sketch on verso, also small detail sketch. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ;... More

Catlett's Station on the Orange & Alex. R.R. / E Forbes.

Illustration with key, showing: 1. Road to Fredericksburg, Va., on which Genl. McDowell's army marched ; 2. Genl. Ord's headquarters ; 3. Catlett's Station ; 4. Freight house ; 5. Orange & Alexandria R.R. Gift,... More

A sutler's tent near H.Q.. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Detailed sketch of the interior of a sutler's tent, with several full-length portraits of unidentified officers drinking at a bar in the foreground. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed lower right: Aug 1862. ... More

A sutler's tent near H.Q.. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Detailed sketch of the interior of a sutler's tent, with several full-length portraits of unidentified officers drinking at a bar in the foreground. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed lower right: Aug 1862. ... More

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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