1864

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia / negative by J. Reekie, positi...

Photograph showing the canal which was built to join together two portions of the James River. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons,... More

Jarvis U.S. General Hospital, Baltimore, Md

Public domain photograph of American Civil War, 19th-century early photogrpahy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Quartermaster's repair shops on Franklin Turnpike, Nashville, Ten...

No. 8500. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Commissary Depot at Cedar Level, Virginia August, 1864

No. 182. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c... More

Madison, the capitol of Wisconsin, engraving, Library of Congress

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kurz, Louis. Check: card has two dates for copyright. Record uses first date; second date reads Mar. 1864 [stamped]

Alexander F. Kemp, Monday, May 09, 1864 (Printed circular)

U.S. Quartermaster's warehouse, Nashville, Tenn., March, 1864

No. 8502. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Grant's campaign south of the James--reinforcements to General Warren ...

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

Butler's victims of Fort St. Philip

Union General Benjamin F. Butler with Confederate prisoners at Fort St. Philip near New Orleans, Louisiana. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 18... More

Clara Day. Johnon, Song Publisher, No. 7 N. 10th St., Phila. c. 1864

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

City Point, Virginia. General Hospital, American Civil War Glass Negat...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Brady photograph of Abraham Lincoln.]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Meserve no. 85. Copy of photograph. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[General U.S. Grant at his Cold Harbor, Virginia, headquarters]

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a tree. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joseph E. Baker - How free ballot is protected!

The artist charges the Republicans with electoral corruption and extremism in their efforts to defeat Democratic presidential nominee George B. McClellan. Oblique reference is also made to Lincoln's supposed a... More

Hare house, Petersburg - Public domain scan / drawing

House and landscape. Title inscribed below image. Green sheet and white sheet joined, sketch on green sheet only. Formerly Waud no. B-145. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.909) Forms part of: Morgan co... More

[J. C. Buttre portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Based on a Brady photograph...

Public domain photograph of male portrait print, engraving, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, District of Columbia (vicinity). General Alexander McD. Mc...

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Heads of the democracy - Drawing. Public domain image.

Purchase; Old Print Shop; 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:492). Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1985:492.

Huntsville, Alabama, from General Logan's head-quarters

Bird's-eye view of Huntsville, Alabama, with soldiers marching, followed by others on horseback, and two covered wagons. Civil War Collection (Library of Congress). Illus. from: Harper's weekly, 1864.

A bomb-proof in front of Atlanta, Ga.

Hand written on verso: Miller, III, 136. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of brevetted Brigadier General Napoleon Bonaparte McLauglen ...

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Quartermaster's repair shops on Nashville Turnpike, Nashville, Te...

No. 8501. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Union Republican ticket. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, for President. ...

Globe surmounted by U. S. flag, and labeled "our country", floating in a body of water.

The Metropolitan Sanitary Fair - the Indian Department [NYC. Indians d...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New York City, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Labrador]

Illus. in album: Photographs of arctic ice / William Bradford, [plate 9] Typewritten text in album lists photographers as J.L. Dunmore and G.P. Critcherson, but William H. Pierce, from the firm of J.W. Black, ... More

[Map of the environs of Olley Creek near Marietta, Georgia, July? 1864...

Shows troop positions, fortifications, and names of some residents. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S96, 198 Available also through the Library of Congress We... More

James Harlan to Abraham Lincoln, [1864] (Introduction)

Petersburg, Virginia. Company F 114th Pennsylvania Infantry

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

Mountain Run near Culpepper [sic], Virginia Apr. 21, 1864

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.196) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Six Morceaux, composed expressly for the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organ ...

Music cover showing young woman playing organ. LOT subdivision subject: Music and Musical Instruments. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Oliver Ditson & Co. Lithog... More

Army of the Potomac--General Hancock and staff / photographed by Brady...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1864 Aug. 13, p. 517. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Unknown to William H. Seward, Saturday, October 15, 1864 (New York po...

Outer line of Confederate fortifications, in front of Petersburg, Virg...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

View of the outer trenches on the last day of the battle in front of N...

Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Photographer name attribution based on date. Formerly attributed to George N. Barnard, based on LC-B811-26... More

Andersonville Prison, Ga., August 17, 1864. South east view of stockad...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War, 19th-century early photogrpahy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group portrait of officers with Admiral David G. Farragut seated, cen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Presidential campaign, 1864. Candidates for President and Vice-Preside...

Print shows bust portraits of Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, Andrew Johnson, and George H. Pendleton above a map of the United States, with bust portraits of the previous 15 presidents with George Washin... More

Isham's celebrated stomach bitters / Lith. Edward Mondel(?), Chicago, ...

Patent medicine label illustrated with man with hammer on flagpole with American flag. Copyright by P. Ray Isham. "Manufactured by P. Ray Isham, Chicago, Ill."

Phelps & Watson's historical and military map of the border & southern...

Shows locations of battles and skirmishes, 1861 to May (?) 1864, with red dots or by red underlining of place names. Also shows population statistics for each state; statistics positioned near blue dots. Relief... More

Mail wagon of 2d Army Corps - Public domain portrait print

No. 303. Alternate title and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Gift; Col... More

The Lincoln gun, American Civil War Glass Negative.

No. 833. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c... More

Belle Plain Landing, Virginia, May, 1864

No. 707. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c... More

Winter quarters of Quartermaster's Department, 6th Army Corps. near Ha...

No. B361. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 7, page 313". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Headquarters Army of Potomac - Brandy Station, Virginia, April 1864

No. 4166. Caption continues: This is left half of a panoramic view of which no. 327 is the right half. Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C... More

Co. B, U.S. Engineers in front of Petersburg, Virginia, August, 1864

No. 566. Photographer from research conducted by William A. Frassanito and reported in Military Images Vol. 11:1, July/Aug. 1989, p. 15. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Double turreted monitor, Onondaga, James River, Virginia

No. B74. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. VI, p. 132 - 33". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Outer line of Confederate fortifications, in front of Petersburg, Virg...

No. B118. Forms part of: Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection).

General U. S. Grant, City Point, Virginia, August, 1864

No. B48. Alternate title from Grant and Lee, the Virginia Campaign by William Frassanito. Incorrect information on negative sleeve: U.S. Grant at City Point. See also: LC-B8175-2, orig. glass negative with dif... More

Xinjiang tu. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. Shows the border between Russia and China with single lines. Wood block print. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Include... More

Alexander Millener, aged 104, one of the survivors of the Revolution

Portrait shows one of the oldest surviving American Revolutionary War veterans. A similar photograph, with hands in a different position, appears in: Hillard, E. B. (Elias Brewster). The Last Men of the Revolut... More

General N.B. McLaughlen, Colonel of 57th Massachusetts. Infantry., U.S...

Portrait of brevetted Brigadier General Napoleon Bonaparte McLaughlen (1823-1887), while he was a colonel.

Petersburg, Virginia. Group of officers at headquarters, Army of the P...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles City Court House, Virginia. View of Court House

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

Officers on deck of U.S.S. Susquehannah

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Brandy Station], [Virginia]. Alfred R. Waud, artist for "Harper's Wee...

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

Just so! - Public domain portrait print

Some clipped from newspapers. Principal subject matter: The election campaign of 1864.

General U. S. Grant and staff, City Point, Virginia, summer of 1864

No. B46. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 10, p. 47". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

The press, the field, the sketchbook / Th. Nast.

Illustration shows various scenes showing a Harper's Weekly correspondent and artist at work in the field, sketching views and gathering information on the battlefield, in camp, and of contraband; two medallion... More

The invasion of Maryland--capture of a train on the Philadelphia, Wilm...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 July 30, p. 289.

Masonic, historic and antiquarian. Ruined monumental column, at Quiri...

Column found among others, at the ancient ruin of Quirigua, covered with symbols of a Masonic character.

Grant's Great Campaign--Last fight of the Pennsylvania Reserves

Attributed to A.R. Waud. Title printed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 25, 1864, p. 412. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.743a) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated]

Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Allegorical image of two(?) women] / C.H. Schmolze.

Reproduction of drawing for book of poetry. Illus. in: Schmolze, Karl Heinrich / An artist's poems, Philadelphia, 1863, pl. 5. Reference copy in LOT 4450-H.

Buildings of the Great Central Fair, in aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commi...

Print shows a view from the northwest of the temporary buildings erected for the Great Central Fair in 1864 on Logan Square in Philadelphia, with the SS Peter and Paul Cathedral on the far side. The three-week ... More

Bridgeport, Tenn. (i.e. Alabama), 1864, showing ruins of Nashville & C...

Hand written on mount: "See also LC-B8184-10349". Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abraham Lincoln to Edward Everett, Thursday, February 04, 1864 (Manus...

Ancient Church. Jamestown 1864 - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-45. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.810) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Georgievskie kavalery imieiushchie znaki otlichiia voennago ordena. Za...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' istoricheskaia, 1871-1872, part 4, pl. 25.

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right;...

Ostendorf, no. 92 (variant) Meserve, no. 85 Portrait used for the engraved bust of Lincoln that appeared on the United States five dollar bill for many years, from 1914 to 2007. Similar to portrait published i... More

Belle Plain, Virginia. Encampment of 2nd N.Y. and 1st Massachusetts. H...

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

Petersburg, Virginia. Group of men of Company A, U.S. Engineer Battali...

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Arlington House, east front, June 28, 1864 (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows a group of men, some Union soldiers, including African Americans, in front of Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's former home. The home was taken over by Union forces in 1864, and later became a m... More

Prize medal awarded--Suggett & Kimball's peerless tobacco / lith. of M...

Tobacco label showing full-length portrait of a nude woman draped with diaphanous sheet, floating over landscape. Copyright by Suggett & Kimball.

[A bombproof shelter for the soldiers during the seige of Petersburg, ...

No. 809. Title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Mount... More

Départ du Marquis de le Guillois / A. Bonnard.

French caricature shows the "Marquis de le Guillois," possibly the publisher or editor of "Le hanneton," departing in a balloon and dropping an envelope sealed with a cockchafer or maybug ("le hanneton"). Among... More

Lieutenant-General Grant at his head-quarters / photographed by Brady.

Ulysses S. Grant, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, leaning against tree by tent. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1864 July 16, p. 449 (cover).

Pontoon bridge across Hazel River, Virginia, March, 1864

No. B407. Hand written on mount: "Welford's Ford". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

George Hunt - McClellan and Pendleton / Oakley & Tompson lith., Boston...

Campaign ephemera for Democratic presidential candidates George B. McClellan and George H. Pendleton, showing head-and-shoulders portrait of George B. McClellan. Copyright by Francis Morandi. .

The rebels under Stuart leaving Chambersburg

Civilians in foreground watch Confederates on horseback riding through town. Most figures are outlines. Buildings in background more defined. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed on buildings as identifiers :... More

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

James K. Moorhead to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, January 15, 1864 (Intro...

Hospital at Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 1864

Photograph shows soldiers outside a brick hospital building in Fredericksburg, Virginia, recovering from wounds received during the battles in the "Wilderness campaign." Woman seated in doorway is volunteer nur... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Chaplains of the 9th Corps]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

Chasing the Rebs through Strasburg

Signed lower left: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0440) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil Wa... More

Cold Harbor, Virginia (vicinity). W.P. Burnet's house

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Camp sentry, Rappahannock Station, Virginia] during American Civil Wa...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.249) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Facts for men who do their own thinking. The two platforms, one positi...

Printed in five columns. Map of rebel and Union territory on verso.

Thunderbolt Battery looking down the River

Signed above image: Wm Waud. Title inscribed above image. On verso sketch of river landscape with frigate. Published in: Harper's Weekly, January 21, 1865, p. 41. Reference print available in the Civil War Draw... More

Wharf boat at Cairo, Illinois, 1864

No. 3161. Mounted with 5 other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Brady on t...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Sketches related to the Wilderness Campaign]

Drawings include: no. 467a - Right of Gibbon, Birney awaiting order to advance; no. 467b - Gibbon in position, May 18, 1864; no. 467c - [Sketches of a military camp by a railroad] on verso. Title devised. Gift,... More

Officers of the 25th United States Colored Troops

Photographs show primarily single portraits of officers serving in the 25th Regiment, United States Colored Troops. Includes about forty-five identified sitters, ranking as Captains or Lieutenants, two troop do... More

Officers of the 25th United States Colored Troops

Photographs show primarily single portraits of officers serving in the 25th Regiment, United States Colored Troops. Includes about forty-five identified sitters, ranking as Captains or Lieutenants, two troop do... More

[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Sherman's troops removing ammunition from Fo...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman at the sea, December 1864. After marching through Georgia for a month, Sherman stormed Fort McAllister on December 13, 1864 and captured Sava... More

The Union medley - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Mac, will win the Union back - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

View from Confederate fort, east of Peachtree street, looking east, At...

No. B624. Hand written on back of mount: Rebel works in front of Atlanta, no. 4. Hand written on back of mount: Miller vol. 3, page 137. Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on record for LC-USZC6-43 and LC-... More

[North Anna River, Virginia Federal troops occupying line of breastwor...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.

View of Atlanta, Ga., October 1864, from the Female Academy

Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; December 20, 1985; DLC/PP-1985:644. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe. No. 62. Landmarks labeled on image. Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at th... More

[Atlanta, Ga. General William T. Sherman on horseback at Federal Fort ...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More