1864

Maj. General George B. McClellan, U.S.A. / border designed by W. Mombe...

Print shows George B. McClellan, half-length portrait, facing left, with border of Civil War Antietam battle scenes.

Reading the news--off duty / EF.

"Rappanhannock Station" on item. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.92) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Rosa, a slave girl from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson, photographer, New ...

Photograph shows a bust portrait of Rosina Downs, facing front. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for... More

F. A. Alberger, et al. to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, February 06, 1864...

[Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad looking at an album of photographs]

"Retouched by Anthony Berger" printed bottom left for LC-USZ6-84. National Archives no. B-5737. Ostendorf, no. 93 (variant) Meserve, no. 39-A "Lincoln and Tad study a Brady album in this photograph by Anthony B... More

Benjamin F. Butler to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, September 29, 1864 (...

[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Interior view of Fort McAllister, 14 miles s...

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

[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Interior view of Fort McAllister, 14 miles s...

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

Ely's Ford - Public domain drawing

Wagons and cavalry fording river in foreground, while infantry cross pontoon bridge in background. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: Poplars. Inscribed lower left... More

Ely's Ford - Public domain scenic drawing

Wagons and cavalry fording river in foreground, while infantry cross pontoon bridge in background. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: Poplars. Inscribed lower left... More

[Nashville, Tenn. Steps of the Capitol with covered guns; vista of the...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Hood before Nashville. Continuing his policy of the offensive at any cost, Gen. John B. Hood brought his reduced army before the defenses of Nashvill... More

[Rappahannock Station, Virginia Sutler's hut and stockade of 50th New ...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864.

Where prisoners were exchanged - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing three canal boats docked at the wharf where Union prisoners were exchanged for Confederate prisoners at Aiken's Landing, Virginia. The Union double-turreted monitor U.S.S. Onondaga is in the... More

Grant writing telegram that the Army had crossed Rapidan 1864

Title inscribed below image. Very similar to Waud no. 433, which may have been traced from this drawing. References: Ray, plate 68. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.432) Reference print available in th... More

The levee at Vicksburg, Miss., February, 1864

Stereograph showing steamboats at the dock. The Mississippi river in the background.

Gen Butler, Adgt Gen Thomas, Adgt Gen Schout[sic]& staff watching the ...

Title inscribed on verso. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 19, 1864, p. 740, as: Gen. Butler and Staff watching the Battle from Johnson House, October 27, 1864. Reference print available in the Civil War... More

The crossing of the Rapidan at Germanna Ford, May 5, 1864--Wilderness ...

"The Army of the Potomac crossing the Rapidan River at Germanna Ford The first day's advance of the Army of the Potomac in its great and last campaign against Richmond" on mat. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1... More

Capture of four 20 lb Parrotts at Deep Bottom by Gen Miles

Inscribed below image: William Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below title: see daily papers this is called the fight at Strawberry Plains. Inscribed upper right: When our men charged the Gunners fl... More

Rosa, Charley, Rebecca, slave children from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson...

Photograph shows freed slaves, Rosina Downs, Charley Taylor, and Rebecca Huger, each wrapped in a portion of the U.S. flag. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Cl... More

[Port Royal band books] - Public domain music sheet scan

[Port Royal band books] - Public domain music sheet scan

[Unidentified sailor on U.S.S. New Hampshire]

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

[Unidentified sailor on U.S.S. New Hampshire]

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

Brandy Station, Virginia (vicinity). Camp of the 18th Pennsylvania Cav...

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

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph showing portrait of Lincoln. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Belle Plain, Virginia. General view - 19th century Virginia.

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

Armstrong's mills and rebel works on Hatcher's Run, captured by the Se...

Illustration from: Harper's Weekly, 1864. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bomb-proof rifle pit in front of Petersburg

Wood engraving after A.R. Waud. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1864 Nov. 6. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Admiral D.D. Porter and staff on board flag-ship, Malvern, Norfolk, Vi...

Photo shows group of officers on board the Malvern. At left, holding his coat is W.B. Cushing, fifth from left is A.C. Rhind, Admiral D.D. Porter is in the center, fifth from right is T.O. Selfridge, fourth fro... More

Camp of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry, February 1864

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

View of Fort Clifton Rebel from the Mills House looking across the App...

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed above image, from left to right: The end as it should be; The Water Battery made two years ago; Rebel signal house; Clifton House; (Sketch 2); A Clifton Battery bearing do... More

Manassas Junction, telegraph station, mess house, &c, March 1864 (Andr...

Photograph shows three railroad cars on an auxilliary track with people standing nearby. No. 283.

Sketch of the forts and breastworks near Petersburg

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.281) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Fleet of Fort Fisher expedition, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Dec. 1864

Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

[Petersburg, Virginia]. Officers of 114th Pennsylvania Infantry

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New military road near the Chain Bridge, Virginia / From a sketch by o...

Illustration shows covered wagons moving along the military road across Chain Bridge with soldiers in the foreground. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. XIII, no. 321 (1862 January 18), p. 133.

Rappahannock Station, Virginia. Canvas pontoon wagon, 50th New York En...

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

Hole-in-the-Day (Younger). Chippewa, Indian delegate

Public domain portrait photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Woman with cart of flowers on cobblestone street, probably in Europe]

Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:122). 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 ... 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.

[Empress Carlota and Emperor Maximilian, head-and-shoulders portraits ...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 5, upper left. On verso: Aubert y C, 2[Superscript a] C. San Francisco, Mexico]

Sherman's department - engagement at Snake Creek Gap, Georgia / from a...

Print shows Union troops engaging Confederate troops at Snake Gap, Georgia. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 8, no. 388 (1864 June 4), p. 364.

Battery on Turner's rocks : [Georgia]. during American Civil War

Shows a part of the defenses of Savannah. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S110, 211 Pen-and-ink on tracing cloth mounted on paper. Available also through the ... More

Brandy Station, Virginia. Headquarters of General John Henry Hobart Wa...

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Washington, District of Columbia. Sanitary Lodge No. 5

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

Brandy Station, Virginia. Detachment of 1st U.S. Cavalry

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Views in the woods between Palmers and Spotswoods Houses at point wher...

Photograph showing fallen trees in woods. No. 5016. Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battlefield of the "Wilderness". Forms part of Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). ... More

[Another view of iceberg or ice formation with hole at center, off the...

Illus. in album: Photographs of arctic ice / William Bradford, [plate 11] 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

Emancipation Proclamation / del., lith. and print. by L. Lipman, Milwa...

Print shows at center the text of the Emancipation Proclamation with vignettes surrounding it; on the left are scenes related to slavery and on the right are scenes showing the benefits attained through freedom... More

Cortina / from sketch by our special artist, C.E.H. Bonwill.

Detail from an illustration of the civil war in Matamoras, showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Cortina, facing left.

Andersonville Prison, Ga., August 17, 1864. North-west view of stockad...

No. 8215. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. VII, p. 75 (bottom)". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Washington, District of Columbia. Interior of ward at Harewood General...

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

Study of an officer. It's almost time for dress parade

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.176) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Fleet of whalers in the port of San Francisco

Public domain photograph of a ship in San Francisco harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Political caricature. No. 3, The abolition catastrophe. Or the Novembe...

Lincoln's support of abolition is portrayed here as a liability in his race to the White House against Democratic candidate George B. McClellan. At top a smoothly run train "Union" heads straight for the White... More

Amazon - Drawing. Public domain image.

Amazon fighting wild beast on horseback. LOT subdivision subject: Amazons. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

[Two views of military works on the James River in 1864]

Title devised. Inscribed below first image: Bridge-James river 1864. Inscribed above image: Butler's lookout. Inscribed below second image: At the obstructions on the James River. Inscribed above image: Dashed ... More

[Large iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Labrador]

Illus. in album: Photographs of arctic ice / William Bradford, [plate 16] 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 vicinity of Richmond and part of the Peninsula /

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Cowan's independent battery, 1st N.Y., inside one of the rebel forts ...

No. 787. 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

Battlefield of Chickasaw Bayou, Miss. The Poison Spring, February, 186...

No. 396. Photographer's name 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. Mounted with 5... More

The army map of Georgia. - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:800,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 129.8 "Deposited [for copyright] July 27, 1864. Recorded vol. 39, page 496" and "No. 41" are written in the right margin. "Copyright Library, 28 Jan. 1865." "En... More

Brandy Station, Virginia (vicinity). Field hospital of 3d Division, 2d...

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Northern coat of arms - Political cartoon, public domain image

A Northern-produced satire, expressing strongly anti-abolitionist sentiments. A large pair of bare feet, obviously those of a black man, protrude from beneath a Phrygian cap adorned with the word "Liberty," sev... More

Brandy Station, Virginia. Camp of 114th Pennsylvania Infantry

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

General Sherman's advance - view of Kenesaw Mountain, from Little Kene...

Georgia, June 27, 1864. Wood engraving after sketch by T.R. Davis. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1864). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; United States Histor... More

Jones landing, James river, 1864 during American Civil War

Title inscribed lower left of image. Formerly Waud no. B-106. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.870) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Chart showing the entrance of Rear Admiral Farragut into Mobile Bay. 5...

Scale ca. 1:22,500. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 110 Detailed map showing five positions and the tracks of the vessels during the sea battle, obstructions, channels, banks, and shoals. Includes small views of t... More

Samuel Downing, aged 102, one of the survivors of the Revolution

Portrait shows one of the oldest surviving American Revolutionary War veterans. A similar photograph appears in: Hillard, E. B. (Elias Brewster). The Last Men of the Revolution. Hartford:, N. A. & R. A. Moore, ... More

Thomas S. Speed to James Speed, Monday, December 19, 1864 (Charles S....

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

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

Views in camp of 50th New York Engineers in front of Petersburg, Virgi...

No. 791. 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

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

No. 8566. 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

Hampton Roads, Virginia, fleet in squall, Dec. 1864

No. 836. Similar view: LC-USZ62-79429. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

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

Photograph shows photographer Mathew B. Brady (center), standing, facing right. No. B123. Forms part of: Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection).

Oil City, Venango Co. Pennsylvania - Public domain graphic arts, Libra...

675 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: McGuigan.

Family register - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a pictorial family register with four columns "Family Names", "Born, When and Where", "Married, Where and by Whom" "Died, When and Where." The first column is subdivided by "Parents" and "Children."... More

Abraham Lincoln President of the United States signing the Emancipatio...

Print shows Abraham Lincoln, full length portrait, seated, facing slightly right, holding quill pen in right hand and papers of the Emancipation Proclamation in his left hand resting on the edge of a table, on ... More

Aiken's House, James River, Virginia during American Civil War

No. B736. Date from Frassanito, William A., Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns, 1864-1865, p. 307 - 311. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Atlanta, Georgia. Federal troops in Confederate fort

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

Rebel prisoners captured in the charge of Genl. Wrights Corps--running...

Signed lower right: A.R.Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed within image: Rough field. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 4, 1864, p. 361. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.752) Reference prin... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Chaplains of the 9th Corps]

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

[Washington. D.C., vicinity. Maj. General Alexander M. McCook on hors...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington.

Egbert B. Brown to Oliver D Greene, Wednesday, July 20, 1864 (Militar...

Atlanta, Georgia. Confederate fortifications, Confederate States of Am...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, 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.

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

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

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

James Mitchell to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, January 19, 1864 (Intervi...

The New emancipation march - Public domain music sheet scan

Federal Fort no. 7. New lines at Atlanta, built after occupation of th...

Photograph shows fortifications in a former Confederate fort in Atlanta now occupied by Union forces. On verso: This was one of the works[?] occupied by the rebels during the Siege, and afterwards re-modeled b... More

Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). Big gun at Fort McAllister

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[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Confederate gun at Fort McAllister]

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

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

Miscegenation; the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the...

Attributed by Sabin, in his Dictionary, to D. G. Croty, George Wakeman, and E. C. Howell. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

7th N.Y. Heavy Arty. in Barlows charge nr. Cold Harbor Friday June 3rd...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 25, 1864, p. 408-9. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.722) Reference print available in the Civil War Draw... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Church built by 50th New York Engineers at Popla...

Public domain photograph of building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.