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Admiral Dahlgren and staff on board U.S.S. Pawnee, off Charleston, S.C...

"65" inscribed on photograph. 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 Civ... More

D. H. Bates / Photographed by Philp & Solomons' Metropolitan Gallery, ...

Photograph shows portrait of David Homer Bates, an original operator of the United States Military Telegraph Corps. Found with ambrotype of the original four operators of the United States Military Telegraph C... More

[Grand Review of the Armies, Washington, D.C.; Jefferson Davis' cell a...

Full page includes four illustrations and an article describing Herold's role in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 9, no. 441 (1865 June 10), p. 365. Herold's name erroneousl... More

Washington, District of Columbia (vicinity). Officers of 5th U.S. Cava...

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[General Winfield Scott Hancock, head-and-shoulders portrait, in unifo...

Stamped on verso: Rockwood, successor; return to George Grantham Bain, 255 Canal Street. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Freedom's immortal triumph! Finale of the Jeff Davis Die-nasty." Las...

A vindictive Northern fantasy on the aftermath of the Civil War. Confederate president Jefferson Davis, dressed in a hoopskirt or crinoline, hangs from a "Sour Apple Tree" at left, a Bowie knife in one hand and... More

[View of boats and ships at wharf, Charleston, South Carolina]

Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 3093. Public domain photograph of ship docs, shipyard, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Captured siege guns, at Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia

Stereograph showing Confederate mounted cannons at Rocketts Landing in Richmond. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright in 1865 by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Forms part of: Civil ... More

Three first traverses on land end, Fort Fisher, N.C. / negative by T.H...

Photograph showing the Confederate fortifications at Fort Fisher, North Carolina, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Mills - 19th century Virginia.

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Officers 4th U.S. Colo[r]ed Infantry, Fort Slocum, April, 1865

Photograph shows African American NCO's in second row, on right. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 689. Original neg. no.: LC-B817-7689.

Richmond, Virginia. Burnt district - 19th century Virginia.

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Drum corps of 10th Veteran Reserve Corps, Washington, D.C., April, 186...

Group portrait of about 30 men, some holding instruments and others reading, writing, and playing cards. No. 688. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original glass negative is broken: LC-B817-7688.

Pontoon bridge across Potomac River from Georgetown, D.C. to Analostan...

Photograph shows a group of civilians crossing a pontoon bridge from Georgetown to Analostan Island (i.e. Roosevelt Island). A group of men seated in a carriage in the foreground while a woman stands at the sh... More

Fort Fisher, N.C., Interior view of first three traverses on land face

No. 440. 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

A dead rebel soldier, as he lay in the trenches of "Fort Hell"

Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Caption continues: This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.... More

Richmond, Virginia. Looking up Main Street

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Prospect Hill, Virginia. Camp of the 13th Regiment New York Cavalry. (...

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[An officer directing his troops into battle]

Officer in center of image points toward scene of battle, as wounded soldiers return. Signed lower left in pencil and Chinese white: JR Chapin. Title devised. Gift, John R. Chapin, 1902 (DLC/PP-A41530.2)

Washington, District of Columbia. Government mess house

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View on the Battery, Charleston, S.C. Remains of the large Blakely gun...

Stereograph showing two Union soldiers standing on the Battery looking at a Blakely gun that was destroyed by Confederates before the evacuation of the city.

Lincoln funeral, American Civil War Glass Negative.

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Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia. Confederate battery on James R...

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Richmond, Virginia. Libby prison on Cary street

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Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia (vicinity). Interior of Fort Da...

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Richmond, Virginia. (Two women in black)

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Richmond, Virginia. Spotswood hotel. (Main Street)

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Veteran Reserve Corps. Wash., D.C. Apr. 1865

Photograph shows Company K, 9th Veteran Reserve Corps at Washington Circle, Washington, D.C. Additional information from record for negative: LC-B817-7805. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25;... More

Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. View from parapet of Fort Sumter th...

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[General Napoleon Bonaparte McLaughlen and staff near Washington, D.C....

Group portrait showing brevetted Brigadier General Napoleon Bonaparte McLaughlen (seated second from right, with double row of buttons on jacket) and other soldiers in front of tent. An African American man is ... More

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia. Confederate Battery Brooke on ...

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View on the Appomattox River, near Campbell's Bridge, Petersburg, Virg...

Photograph showing several commercial buildings along the Appomattox River in Petersburg, Virginia, and the high road that leads out of town. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexande... More

City Point, Virginia. General Rufus Ingalls and group

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Petersburg, Virginia. View on the Petersburg lines from the right of F...

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Petersburg, Virginia. View showing how close picket lines to each othe...

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The first of May 1865 or gen[era]l moving day in Richmond, Virginia / ...

Print shows Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson vacating premises in Richmond as African Americans and whites look on.

Meeting St., Charleston, S.C., looking South, showing the ruins of Cir...

Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. III, p. 174. Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. in 1865. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Libra... More

Richmond, Virginia. House - 19th century Virginia.

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Washington, District of Columbia. Government repair shops; Wheelwright...

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[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]. Lt. Colonel Samuel K. Schwenk, 50th Pennsy...

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Washington, District of Columbia. Crowd at President Abraham Lincoln's...

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Interior views of Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S.C., April, 1865

Photograph shows debris at the parapet. No. 4388. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. V, p. 120". Mounted with four other photographs. Photograph is half of a stereograph pair. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Washington, District of Columbia. General William Hays and staff

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Detachment U.S. Engineers, Petersburg, Virginia, April, 1865

No. 434. 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 an... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Group at War Department

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[Prisoner's letter envelope addressed to Dr. Geo. Brown, Barre[?], Mas...

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Fort Fisher, N. C. Interior view - First six traverses on sea face

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View of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), on the parapet, overlooking the ha...

Stereograph showing damaged gabions amid the fortifications on the parapet of Fort Sumter. Photographer Samuel Cooley sets up his camera in the distance. No. 3053. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photogr... More

Sheridan and his generals / photographed by Gardner, and published by ...

Generals Philip Sheridan, Wesley Merritt, George Crook, James William Forsyth, and George Armstrong Custer gathered around a table. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 June 24, p. 389. Alexander Gardner (October ... More

Blacksmith's shop, Quartermaster's department, Washington, D.C., April...

No. 864. 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

Petersburg, Virginia. View of mills - 19th century Virginia.

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Ruins of the Catholic Cathedral, Charleston, S.C. Rear view

Stereograph showing ruins of the Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar which was destroyed by fire in December 1861. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony &... More

President Andrew Johnson pardoning Rebels at the White House / sketche...

Print showing title page of the Saturday October 14th issue with large illustration of President Johnson pardoning the Rebels after the Civil War and a smaller illustration of Johnson's tailor shop in Tennessee... More

Skulls and bones of unburied soldiers on south side of Plank Road in 1...

No. 4999. Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battle-field of Chancellorsville. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. 8, p. 173. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

View of James River at Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)

Phogograph shows buildings at the wharf at Rockett's Landing on the south side of the James River. See also: LOT 11486-A, no. 4. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Richmond, Virginia. Ruins along the canal

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Interior of Fort Sedgewick (i.e. Sedgwick)

No. B119. Handwritten on verso: Miller, vol. V, p. 213. Date from information on negative sleeves of similar views. Forms part of: Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection).

Home views. No. 15, Rebel prison - 1865

Stereograph shows a bird's-eye or elevated view of Elmira prison camp in New York, with a long line of prisoners standing along the fence with rows of buildings in the background. No. 15. Printed on label: A ... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Company K, 3d Regiment Massachusetts...

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Birds eye view of Lincoln U.S. General Hospital, Washington, D.C. / li...

Copyright by Charles H. Seymour. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The 24th Corps charging a fort to the left.

This image may depict the final assault on Petersburg, at Fort Gregg, 2 April 1865. Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower left: [B]attery Greig[sic]. Inscribed above image: Reb... More

The 24th Corps charging a fort to the left.

Richmond, Virginia. Ruined buildings in the burnt district

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Maps illustrating Gen'l Sherman's "March to the sea" and through the C...

Relief shown by hachures. Title from cover. Gift; Ransom Post no. 131, Grand Army of the Republic, St. Louis, Mo.; September 1933. Pen and ink and colored ink on paper and tracing cloth. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ... More

O'Connor House, where Union officers were under fire, Charleston, S.C.

Photograph shows five men near all that remains of a building in front of the O'Connor house on Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina.

Unburied dead on battlefield - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing decomposed corpses of soldiers on the battlefield at Gaines' Mill, Virginia, several months after the battle. No. 914. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1... More

[District of Columbia. Interior view of Fort Lincoln]

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

Petersburg, Virginia. Dead Confederate soldier in trenches before Pete...

Photo shows, according to Thomas Roche's caption, "a Rebel soldier killed in the Rebel trenches before Petersburgh [sic]. The spots and marks on his face are blood issuing from his mouth and nose. The wound is ... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Interior view of Confederate works near Elliott'...

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Last stand of Picketts men. Battle of Five Forks

Inscribed upper left: When pickets div. surrendered it grouped around this tree. Inscribed upper right: There should be a wider interval between the two charging lines, and perhaps a little more broken. Inscrib... More

[Petersburg, Virginia, vicinity. Canal aqueduct] - 19th century Virgin...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia, vicinity. Canal aqueduct] - 19th century Virgin...

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

[Funeral march] - Public domain drawing

Title devised. Inscribed lower right: 1865. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.739) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file I. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The War will soon be o'er - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Sanitary Commission, Wash., D.C., 1865 during American Civil War

Photograph showing soldiers and other men standing in front of a group of buildings. No. 7005. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Lewis Payne, the conspirator who attacked ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865.

[Charleston, S.C. Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar; another view]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

[Charleston, S.C. South Battery; dismantled Blakely gun in foreground]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 183-1865.

Savannah, Georgia. Fountain in Central Park

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Richmond, Virginia. Castle Thunder. (Converted tobacco warehouse for p...

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Richmond, Virginia. Almshouse - 19th century Virginia.

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Picketts charge from a position on the enemys line looking toward the ...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.291) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2012-2013.

The Orphan Asylum, Charleston, no. 635 / George Stacy.

Stereograph shows a front view of the asylum with a man standing outside on the grounds, Charleston, South Carolina. Card number: "Nno. 635." Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and oth... More

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Johnson. ...

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Charleston, South Carolina. Exterior view of Fort Sumter

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[Alexandria, Virginia Cooks in the kitchen of Soldiers' Rest]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of Alexandria, Va. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Johnson, Charleston Harbor - stereocsopic card

Photograph shows a line of cannons at Fort Johnson, facing Charlston harbor, on James Island, South Carolina. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). From series: "War Views, no. 201." Forms part of... More

Charleston, South Carolina. View on Meeting Street, looking south, sho...

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Richmond, Virginia 1865. Burnt district during American Civil War

View from the canal basin with sunk barge in foreground. Civil War Photograph Collection. LC-B817-7033 (broken)

Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Exterior view of Fort Sumter

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Rebs taking the oath at Richmond

Seven diverse figure studies. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower right: 1865. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.360) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file F. Forms part of... More

Rebs taking the oath at Richmond

Union picket line in front of the rebel Fort Mahone, called by the sol...

Stereograph showing three Union guards and other debris behind the gabion reinforced fortifications at Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia. No. 3201, part of series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the Uni... More

Columbia the morning after the fire

Signed on verso: William Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed above image, from left to right: Asylum; Treasury Building; Market House; New State House. Inscribed lower right: Cotton burning in foregroun... More

[Washington, D.C. John C. Howard's stable on G Street between 6th and ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865.

[City Point], Virginia (vicinity). Park of army wagon wheels

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Storming the line. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed upper left: To the left of Ft. Mahone. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.416) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1865. Forms part of: Morga... More