1862

Major Genl. Henry W. Halleck General in chief of the armies of the U.S...

Henry W. Halleck, full-length portrait, wearing military uniform, seated on rearing horse. 456(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Currier & Ives. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Res... More

W.T. Sherman, Maj. Genl., U.S.A.. American Civil War 1861-1865.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card (copy of P&AGA card). Associated name on shelflist card: Ehrgott, Forbriger & Company, Cincinnati. The same stone with only a change of face was used... More

Joe Hooker, Maj. Genl., U.S.A.. American Civil War 1861-1865.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card (copy of P&AGA catalog card). Associated name on card: Ehrgott, Forbriger & Company, Cincinnati. "10 3/4 inches h. x 9 3/4" inches w." The same stone... More

Com. Farragut's fleet, passing the forts on the Mississippi, April 24t...

Public domain photograph of an artwork - seascape, siling ship in the sea, travel, colonies, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Piesni. Russian Masonic Songs, 1905.

"Sbornik masonskikh pi︠e︡sen." Cf. I︠U︡ Bitovt. Ri︠e︡dkīi︠a︡ knigi, 1905, no. 2660. Purchase from Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich Yudin, 1906. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ... More

Halt of Wilcox's Troops in Caroline street prevous[sic] to going in to...

Troops lounging on furniture and debris in foreground, battered dwellings in background. Title inscribed above image. Inscribed above image: Battle field; smoke from Battle field. Published in: New York Illustr... More

A glimpse of the defeat at Ellisons Mill June 26th

Signed lower left: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Men lost in the smoke; Pennsylvania reserves; original; June, Kendrick. (Sat.) Virginia. June. Inscribed on verso: Knapsacks and blank... More

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

Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Fair Oaks, Virginia Lt. James B. Washington, a Confederate prisoner, ...

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

Sketch of a group of Collis' Zouaves--General Banks bodyguard, now att...

"Officers & non-commissioned officers of Collis' Zouaves. General Banks' bodyguard. Camp Pardee, near Upperville, Va." on mount. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.19) Forms part of: Morgan collection ... More

John Lellyett to Andrew Johnson, Wednesday, March 05, 1862 (Recommend...

Night. The sacking of Fredericksburg-- & biovace[sic]of Union troops

Street scene of soldiers plundering, buildings in shambles--some on fire. Title inscribed above image. Inscribed lower left: Bivouac. Inscribed on building left margin as identifier: BANK OF VIRGINIA. Inscribed... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

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Barton Bates to Franklin A. Dick, Tuesday, December 30, 1862 (Complai...

George A. S. Crooker to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, October 07, 1862 (S...

Mrs. C. Terry to E. Terry, Thursday, January 16, 1862 (Telegram inqui...

Harlem River, N.Y. - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Penciled on front of mount: 505. Amateur Photographic Exchange Club label affixed to verso gives title, photographer, photographer's address (32 Park Row, New York), date, number (98), negative (wet), and notat... More

Signal tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland, overlooking battlefield of Ant...

Photograph showing soldiers at the Elk Mountain Signal Station. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 22. Another... More

Richmond, Virginia (vicinity). General John H. Martindale & staff in t...

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View of "Black Hawk Point" / Haerting lith. ; lith. Chas. Shober ; J.E...

Print showing bird's-eye view of Black Hawk Point, a frontier community in Colorado; includes remarque showing a Native American.

Thomas H. Hicks to Abraham Lincoln, February 1862 (Introduces Tharp a...

[Portrait photographs of soldiers and servants from various Union head...

Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 359, no. 444, no. 349, no. 428, no. 366, and no. 387. Exhibit loan 4116-L.

[Landscape with buildings] - Public domain scan / drawing

Title devised. Sketch formerly mounted with Waud nos. 576 and 578, and labeled "1862 Army of the Potomac, 6 sketches." Small sketches of soldiers on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.577) Forms p... More

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

Arms of ye Confederacie, Confederate States of America.

A small card bearing a vitriolic indictment of the Confederacy. The artist particularly attacks the the institution of slavery, the foundation of Southern economy. A large shield is flanked by two figures: a pl... More

View of Gloucester & Yorktown, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] hous...

Photograph shows aerial view of the fortifications along the York River with the fleet in the distance. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 361. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibso... More

View of Gloucester & Yorktown, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] hous...

Photograph shows aerial view of the fortifications along the York River with the fleet in the distance. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 361. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibso... More

[Charge of Union troops of the left flank of the army commanded by Gen...

Caption from LC-USZ62-7014. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.34) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Group at Headquarters, Army of Potomac, October 1862

Photograph shows, from left: H.F. Clark, A.V. Colburn, J. Buford, J. Letterman, Mr. Coleman, John Gibbon, and J.C. Duane seated and reclining under a tree in front of tents. No. 5086. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Antietam, Maryland (vicinity). Maj. Allan Pinkerton, Secret Service De...

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The battle of Pittsburgh, Tenn. April 7th, 1862

General Ulysses S. Grant leading a charge on the Rebels at Pittsburgh, Tennessee. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0476.

American frontier life: the hunter's stratagem

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0172. Exchange; Harry Shaw Newman; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:035).

Antietam, Maryland. Federal buried, Confederate unburied, where they f...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Bull Run, Virginia Ruins of the stone bridge, looking upstream]

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

Genl. Meagher at the Battle of Fair Oaks Virginia, June 1st 1862

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2514

The slavery code of the District of Columbia, together with notes and ...

John A. Dix to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, June 01, 1862 (Telegram regar...

Antietam, Maryland. Newcomer's mill, American Civil War Glass Negative...

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Confederate dead at Fort Robinette, Corinth

Stereograph showing dead Confederate soldiers in front of the damaged battery at Fort Robinette, Corinth, Mississippi the morning after the attack. No. 1291. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with 6th Corps badge with cross...

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: The Horse Soldier, Gettysburg, Pa., 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms part... More

Richard Wallach, et al. to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, October 28, 1862 ...

Caleb B. Smith to John G. Nicolay, Saturday, July 19, 1862 (Cover let...

U.S. Citizens to Abraham Lincoln, September 1862 (Petition supporting...

Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate battery Magruder with 8-inch Columbiad...

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View on battlefield of Antietam, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows four dead Confederate soldiers from General William Starke's Louisiana infantry along the Hagerstown Pike. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 567. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862... More

Destruction of the rebel ram "Arkansas": By the United State gunboat "...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1708

James C. Orr to George S. Boutwell, Tuesday, December 23, 1862 (Wants...

Genl. Humphreys charging at the head of his division after sunset of t...

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, January 10, 1863, p. 24-25. Waud no. 751a is Harper's Weekly engraving. Reference print available in the Civil War Dra... More

Gunboats shelling the enemy at the battle of Malvern hill sketched fro...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: General McClellan went aboard while I was sketching to change the position of the gunboats that were shelling our infantry. Gif... More

Antietam, Maryland. A Confederate soldier who after being wounded had ...

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[Second experiment with board trusses, after it had been broken, and t...

No. 30 (handwritten) and 2531 (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

22d New York State Militia near Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 1861 [i.e.186...

No. B852. Date based on 22nd NY history. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

March of Genl. Fremont's army through the woods in pursuit of Jackson ...

"March of Genl. Fremont's army to Cross Keys, Va." on mount. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.33) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The emblem of the free / B. Day, del.

Number three in a series of illustrated song-sheets published in New York by Samuel Canty. This example includes the words of a song by Canty entitled "The Emblem of the Free" and alternately "The Traitor's Dre... More

Jonathan B. Turner to Abraham Lincoln, October 1862 (Views on the con...

General Stoneman and staff, at his headquarters, near Fair Oaks

Photograph shows group portrait of General George Stoneman, seated in center, and his staff. A dog rests on the right. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 436. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by... More

Gen'l. George B. McClellan and staff, before Yorktown, Virginia, April...

Full-length portrait, on horseback, facing right, holding up sword. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonne / compiled by Gale Research, Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2500.

Hamilton R. Gamble to Henry W. Halleck, October 1862 (Military affair...

[Street scene showing R. Nelson's General Store, Front St., Marquette,...

Public domain photograph - 19th-century stereoscopic card, view, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rebuilding the RR bridge over the Rappahannock River

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.13) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Experimental bridges (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing a man standing next to the bridge truss. No. 26 (handwritten) and 2527 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and e... More

Central Park, the drive - Engraving, Public domain image

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1044.

[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.

Represents arks in process of construction; one is seen on the launchi...

No. 6 (handwritten) and 2507 (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

Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate Battery with 8-inch Columbiads

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fighting in the woods Kearneys division repulsing the enemy Monday Jun...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 9, 1862, p. 500. Inscribed on box in image: 1000 ... Cartridges Call 52. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1... More

Fighting in the woods Kearneys division repulsing the enemy Monday Jun...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 9, 1862, p. 500. Inscribed on box in image: 1000 ... Cartridges Call 52. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1... More

[Bull Run, Virginia Federal cavalry at Sudley Ford]

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

Bringing wounded soldiers to the cars after the battle of Seven Pines

Wounded soldiers brought to a train in carts and on stretchers. Tentative sketches of soldiers on verso. Title devised from inscriptions. Inscribed above image: "Battle Field" Fairoak [sic] Station Richmond and... More

Dress parade of First South Carolina, (U.S.C.T.), Beaufort, S.C.

No. 4970. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

John Wesley Greene to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, November 22, 1862 (D...

Destruction of the rebel monster "Merrimac" off Craney Island May 11th...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1707

Union War Prisoners Association, organized in Charleston jail, Dec. 31...

List of names of Union war prisoners and illustrations of southern prisons. Copyright by Otto Boetticher.

On the Hudson, N.Y. Island - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpa...

Penciled on front of mount: No. 4. Amateur Photographic Exchange Club label affixed to verso gives title, photographer, date, number (4), and negative (solid: milk proc). Amateur Photographic Exchange Club. F... More

Experimental bridge trusses (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing four men on bridge trusses. No. 24 (handwritten) and 2525 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / Un... More

Battle of Winchester, decisive charge upon the rebels at the stone wal...

Signed lower right: Alf. R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed lower right: Many of the soldiers without caps and arms at the [rear?]. Published with description in: Harper's Weekly, April 12, 1862, p.... More

Gustavus V. Fox to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, January 22, 1862 (Mili...

[Chickahominy River, Virginia Military bridge built by the 15th New Yo...

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

[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.

[Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: men working on bri...

Photograph showing a man boring a hole in bridge trestle and a man with Haupt's Torpedo; back of train in background. No. 59 (handwritten) and 2560 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military ... More

Antietam, Maryland. Colonel Turner G. Morehead, 106th Pennsylvania Vol...

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John E. Wool to Edwin M. Stanton, Monday, May 12, 1862 (Telegram rega...

[Centreville, Virginia Fort on the heights, with Quaker guns]

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

Sharpsburg, Maryland. Lutheran church on Main St

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blest banner of freedom - Public domain music sheet scan

[Railroad construction worker straightening track; pile of twisted rai...

No. 67 (handwritten) and 2567 (stamped) on mount. Photo in album compiled by U.S. Military Railway Dept. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewh... More

Wisconsin 4th Regiment Volunteers to Halbert E. Paine, Friday, June 06...

Roger W. Pease to Josiah Simpson, Monday, October 20, 1862 (Condition...

[Cumberland Landing, Virginia Gens. Andrew A. Humphreys, Henry W. Sloc...

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

Guerilla warfare. Unarmed Union soldiers fired at by farmers on the Ja...

Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: Prime block. See similar image by William Waud in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper August 2, 1862. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DL... More

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

Savage Station, Virginia, June 27, 1862

Stereograph showing Army of the Potomac headquarters with railroad cars in the background, and covered wagons in the foreground before the battle began. No. 468. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photograp... More

John W. Dawson to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, January 09, 1862 (Affair...

[Warrenton, Virginia Street in front of courthouse]

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

Snow scene. Fairmount Park - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpa...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

What do I want, John Henry? / Alex. Gardner, photographer.

White soldier sitting facing young black servant, who is holding bottle and cake(?), with two other soldiers sitting and one standing in front of two tents. One of the soldiers is Brevet Major J.R. Coxe, who w... More

Group Gens. Barry, Slocum, Newton, Franklin, &c., 14th May, 1862

Photograph shows group portrait of Generals Andrew A. Humphreys, Henry W. Slocum, William B. Franklin, William F. Barry, and John Newton, with an African American boy at Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Brady's Al... More

Group Gens. Barry, Slocum, Newton, Franklin, &c., 14th May, 1862

Photograph shows group portrait of Generals Andrew A. Humphreys, Henry W. Slocum, William B. Franklin, William F. Barry, and John Newton, with an African American boy at Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Brady's Al... More

[Warrenton, Virginia Dr. Jonathan Letterman, medical director of the A...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Burnside and Hooker, November 1862-April 1863.

Thomas A. Jenckes to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, September 11, 1862 (R...