On Hancocks front-- the soldiers ha[ving] no picks and shovels used ba...
Signed lower left: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed lower left: June 3rd. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.77) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
[18 different tickets of admission to the Great Central fair for the U...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 158, Folder 39.
Battle of Bethesda Church - Public domain scenic drawing
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.238) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
General Grant's grand march - American Civil War sheet music
Music associated with the Union side
Wounded escaping from the burning woods of the Wilderness
Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 4, 1864, p. 357. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.535) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawing... More
Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, slaves from New Orleans / Chas. Paxso...
Photograph shows a group portrait of freed slaves from New Orleans, Wilson Chinn, Charles Taylor, Rebecca Huger, and Rosina Downs reading. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackab... More
Burying the dead at hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia
No. B473. Date from record for LC-USZC4-1820. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
[Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, vicinity. Body of a Confederate s...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.
Wreck of Transport Steamers "Maple leaf" and "Genl. Hunter". St. Johns...
Title inscribed below image. Date derived from historical sources. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.523) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Report of the camps, marches & engagements, of the Second Corps, A.N.V...
Relief shown by hachures. A number of the maps from this report are reproduced in the Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1891-95. Pen-and-ink and pencil (some col.) wit... More
Christ blessing little children
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sartain, Samuel.
The Soldier's good-by - American Civil War sheet music
Music associated with the Union side
In front of Petersburg - Public domain scan / drawing
Signed below image: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: enemies first line of earthworks our lines below and in front. Inscribed above image: Smoke of locomotive on Petersburg and Ric... More
In front of Petersburg - Public domain scan / drawing
Signed below image: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: enemies first line of earthworks our lines below and in front. Inscribed above image: Smoke of locomotive on Petersburg and Ric... More
[Private Hiram M. Kersey, 44th Iowa Infantry regiment, standing on rug...
Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Case: Berg, no. 4-22G variant. Identification of soldier from newspaper clipping found behind photograph. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms... More
Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia / sketched by W.C. Schwartzburg, Co. ...
Print shows an exterior of Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, from across a street, with inmates behind barred windows and guards patrolling in front of the building. Publication date based on copyright state... More
Chattanooga, Tennessee. Federal cavalry guarding railroad depot
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Atlanta, Ga. Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street, wi...
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
Confederate dead on the battlefield - 19th century Virginia.
Stereograph showing the dead body of one of Confederate General Ewell's soldiers lying against a barricade where he fell, near Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, May 20, 1864. No. 723. Part of series: The War... More
Headquarters 6th Army Corps. March, 1864
No. B329. Hand written on mount: "Welford House, "Farley," near Brandy Station, Culpeper Co.?" Hand written on verso: "Gen. Sedgwick (3rd from right)". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
The battle of Darbytown Road - Public domain scan / engraving
Ruled grid for engravers inscribed over image. Title inscribed above image. Inscribed above image left to right: Rebel battery; Darbytown Road on which Kautz's Cavalry was driven in; Woods through which the Reb... More
Chattanooga, Tennessee (vicinity). View of Tennessee River from Lookou...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Making parrallels [sic] - Public domain scan / drawing
Soldiers digging trenches. Signed lower right: A. R.W. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 6, 1864, p. 504 as part of : General Grant's Campaign in the trenches before Petersburg.... More
Sourbeck house Alliance, Ohio / Aug. Hani, Lith. St. Clair St. Pittsbu...
Print shows an exterior view of the Sourbeck House train station with passenger cars for the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne & Chicago Rail Way on one track and a locomotive for the Cleveland & Pittsburgh R.W. on another... More
[Cedar Creek, Virginia] - Public domain scenic drawing
Signed lower left: AR Waud. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.234) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
One of the guns that had to be dug out, Fort McAllister
Photograph shows one of the Confederate guns at Fort McAllister, near Savannah, that was dismantled by Sherman's army as the Union army moved northward. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). See a... More
Night signalling - Public domain monumental decor drawing
Title inscribed on verso. "Signal Corps VIII 3" inscribed on verso. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 12, 1864, p. 732. Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings File Q. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 191... More
[Washington, D.C. General view of Harewood Hospital, on farm of W. W. ...
Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the hospitals. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Compromise with the South - Dedicated to the Chicago Convention / Th. ...
Picture showing Confederate and Yankee shaking hands over grave. Tombstone reads: In Memory of the Union-Heroes who fell in a use-less war. Columbia is kneeling at the grave. Wood engraving after Nast. Illus. i... More
Maryland's free! - American Civil War sheet music
Music associated with the Union side
Belle Plain Landing, Virginia. Distance view of Belle Plain Landing on...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Grand banner of the radical democracy, for 1864
Print shows a campaign banner for presidential nominee John C. Fremont and his running mate John Cochrane. Fremont and Cochrane were the candidates of a faction of radical Democrats consisting mostly of Germans... More
San Francisco. Bird's-eye view / drawn & lithographed by C.B. Gifford.
Bird's-eye view of San Francisco, California from above the bay looking west.
Cattle Raid. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Signed lower left: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed on a separate sheet of cream paper: Confederate cattle raid Sept. 16th 1864. Genl. Wade Hampden [sic] suddenly appeared at Coggins point in th... More
Genl. Custer presenting the flags captured in the last battle in the v...
General Custer, with aides, presenting Confederate flags captured during battle of Cedar Creek. Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Confederate flag sketched upper left. Inscribed upper lef... More
Genl. Custer presenting the flags captured in the last battle in the v...
General Custer, with aides, presenting Confederate flags captured during battle of Cedar Creek. Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Confederate flag sketched upper left. Inscribed upper lef... More
A Richmond prisoner U.S. General Hospital, Div. No. 1, Annapolis, Md.,...
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by E. Wallace, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms ... More
[Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee], American Civil War Glass Negativ...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sheridan's Ride. Battle of Cedar Creek
Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower right in different hand: Oct 19-64. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.445) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864. Forms part of: Mo... More
The body of the most Revd. Archbishop Hughes, lying in state: at St. P...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0652.
The body of the most Revd. Archbishop Hughes, lying in state: at St. P...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0652.
Emblematic chart and Masonic history of F[ree] and A[ccepted] M[asons]...
Depicts numerous emblems of masonry including all seeing eye, ark, beehive, lamb, globes on top of columns, square and compass, trowel, and anchor. 5697U(?) U.S. Copyright Office.
North Anna River, Virginia. Quarles mill on North Anna where a portion...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
In Picketts Mill, Ga. May 27-64.
Wooded landscape. Title inscried below image. Two bust sketches on verso. Formerly Waud no. B-38. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.803) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Atlanta, Georgia. Confederate fortifications, Confederate States of Am...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
North Anna River, Virginia. Cavalry crossing Chesterfield bridge
Public domain historical photo, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Dead Confederate soldier, Confederate States of America.
No. 723. 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
Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort on the Ogeechee River
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; 18...
Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More
Before Petersburg at sunrise, July 30th 1864
Sig ned lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Spires in Petersburg. The mine. Inscribed on separate sheet of cream paper: Explosion of the mine under the Confederate works at... More
Lookout. Mt. from the west. Captured No 23 1863 by Maj Gen Hooker & th...
Naive (self-taught) landscape of tree-covered hills, with Lookout Mountain and outline of flag atop it in background. Signed lower left: G.H. Blakeslee T.E. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed below title: A... More
[Petersburg, Virginia Military telegraph operators at headquarters; an...
Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.
Ceremony of "Turning the Sod" of the New Masonic Temple, Thanksgiving ...
J245245 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Spencer & Wyckoff; December 15, 1920. Similar to PAN SUBJECT - Events, no. 11, street sign in foreground has been eliminated from negative.
Battery A, 4th U.S. Artillery - A large group of people riding horses ...
No. 4207. Caption on verso from Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war: "Battery A, Fourth United States Artillery, Robertson's Brigade". Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of th... More
Atlanta, Georgia. Interior view of Confederate fort, east of W. & A. R...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[White House Landing, Virginia Headquarters of the U.S. Christian Comm...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.
Chattanooga, Tennessee (vicinity). View from Lookout Mountain
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fredericksburg, Virginia. Burial of Federal dead
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Old Virginia farmer coming from mill. Rappahannock Station, Virginia
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.121) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Filling their canteens - 19th century Virginia.
Stereograph showing soldiers lining up to fill their canteens at a well, which is protected by canvas, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. A group of African Americans seated on horses or on the ground, wait nearby... More
[Atlanta, Ga. Chevaux-de-frise on Marietta Street; photographic wagons...
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
Field Telegraph Station - 19th century Virginia.
Stereograph showing soldiers outside a tent used as a telegraph station at Wilcox's Landing in the vicinity of Charles City County, Virginia. No. 2351. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War Hi... More
Thunder Bolt Bat[ter]y from Rear
Signed below image: Will Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed on verso: This Baty was built in / 61 and is of immence[sic]strength-it was designed to protect the City from any attack by Gun boats coming ... More
Maj. General Sherman and staff. This view was taken in the trenches be...
Stereograph showing Major General William T. Sherman, center, leaning on the breach of a cannon, with his staff at Federal Fort No. 7 near Atlanta, Georgia.
[Atlanta, Ga. Railroad depot; a nearer view]
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
Genl. Hunt--and Major Duane, chief of Arty. and Chief Engineer
Title inscribed below image. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file L. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.475) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil... More
[Brandy Station, Virginia Wagons and men of the U.S. Military Telegrap...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864.
[Belle Plain, Virginia Wagons of the Sanitary Commission and a crowd a...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.
Sojourner Truth, three quarter length portrait
Photograph shows Sojourner Truth in a three-quarter-length portrait. She is sitting at table with knitting and a book. "I sell the shadow to support the substance, Sojourner Truth" printed below photo. Copyrig... More
Art gallery, the Great Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, 1864
Photograph shows paintings and sculpture at the Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Ce... More
[Battle of Dug Gap] - Public domain scenic drawing
Title devised. Published in: Joseph M. Brown's The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia, 1887, p. 24. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.424) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864. For... More
[Chattanooga, Tenn. Confederate prisoners at railroad depot]
Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of the Battle of Chattanooga, September-November 1863. After Rosecrans' debacle at Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863, Bragg's army occupied the mountai... More
LOST MTN - Public domain drawing
Landscape with two horsemen. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed under fragmentary sketch on verso: Snowball battle [Dalton]. Formerly Waud no. B-77. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.841) Forms part... More
Nashville, Tennessee. Tomb of President James K. Polk
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States
Photograph showing engraved portrait of Lincoln after a photograph taken by Anthony Berger, seated.
Circular of the American union commission [New York, 1864].
Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 125, Folder 42.