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[Artillery wagons, caissons, travelling forges. ca. 1850; various illu...

Illus. in: Heck, Iconographic Encyclopedia, v. 2, 1851, plate 38. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artillery; Shelf.

[Rear view of a cannon with a soldier sitting adjacent to it facing fo...

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support wi... More

Pivot guns crew, U.S. Steamer Pocahontas

Photograph shows sailors posed on the ship near the pivot gun. Title inscribed in ink on the front of the mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.269).

Interior view of Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor, S.C. City in the ...

Stereograph showing a mounted cannon and ammunition inside the fort. No. 3121. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Forms part of: Civil War Ph... More

Fort C.F. Smith, Co. L, 2d New York Artillery

Group of soldiers with cannon and caisson. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 675. Original neg. number: LC-B817-7675.

Poster - The human canon ball - Public domain lithograph

K9060 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

North from the battery, West Point

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

[District of Columbia. Officers of Companies A and B, 3d Massachusetts...

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

Ten Inch Columbiad, and Magazine Entrance, Sand Bag Revertment (i.e. r...

Stereograph showing a soldier standing next to a cannon, and the fortified entrance to the magazine. No. 1001. Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River. Forms part of: Civil War Photo... More

View from the parapet of Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor (i.e. Sulliv...

Stereograph showing a cannon inside the battery of Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, South Carolina.

[Fort Monroe, Virginia The "Lincoln Gun," a 15-inch Rodman Columbiad]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Monroe, Va.

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye] / Consta...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 37. No. 420. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More

[Unknown location. Parrott gun] - stereocsopic card

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Charleston Harbor, S.C. Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren standing by a D...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

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.

[Morris Island, S.C. Two 100-pdr. Parrott guns and stacks of shells in...

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

[Unknown location. 12-pdr. Napoleon (model 1857?)]

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of the east face of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor...

Stereograph showing a damaged cannon among the rocks, cannon shells, and debris of the exterior of Fort Sumter. No. 3125, from series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Han... More

[Fair Oaks, Virginia, vicinity. Capt. Rufus D. Pettit's Battery B, 1st...

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

Big gun on Morris Island, South Carolina

Photograph shows a group of soldiers with a 300 pound Parrott gun named "Col. Brayton" in battery Gregg on Morris Island, South Carolina. The cannon is aimed at Fort Sumter.

[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts; different view]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

[Charleston, S.C. Blakely guns and ammunition in the Arsenal yard]

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

[Arlington, Virginia Guns and gun-crews of Fort Richardson]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Photograph of 1st Connecticut Artillery drilling at Fort Richardson.

[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

[Washington, D.C. Park of Wiard guns at the Arsenal; another view. H....

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Public domain photograph of military forces, army, artillery, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Battery B, 2d U.S. Artillery near Fair Oaks, Virginia, June, 1862

No. 439. 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

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

[Charleston, S.C.] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. New York, Admiral Sampson's son and Pitch the mascot

Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

6-inch rapid fire guns in west battery, Santiago, 1898

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[East Battery, Charleston, S.C.] during American Civil War

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

37th R.A. howitzer battery going to Maddox Hill to throw lyddite into ...

Photograph shows British artillery during the Boer War. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Highlanders capturing Boer guns - stereocsopic card

Skirted highlanders charging field artillery batteries--Boer War. No. X2827. Copyright by William H. Rau (Griffith & Griffith).

Residence of Jefferson Davis (1201 East Clay Street), Richmond, Virgin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, or cannon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Swamp Angel Battery near Charleston, S.C.

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing around the cannon in a fortified battery. Date from record for LC-B811-3516. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative ... More

[District of Columbia. Sergeants of 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, ...

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

Conn. & Massachusetts. volunteers in sand bag battery

Photograph shows a group of Connecticut and Massachusetts Volunteers alongside a cannon in the sandbag battery, possibly at Fort Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-... 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.

[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts; different view]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

[Broadway Landing, Virginia Federal ordnance at the depot; another vie...

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

The Sally-port and draw-bridge - A black and white photo of a group of...

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing on the drawbridge at the gate of Fort Slemmer in Washington, D.C. A mounted cannon is in the background. No. 2318. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographi... More

Completely silenced! Dead Confederate artillery men, as they lay aroun...

Photograph shows the bodies of dead Confederate soldiers, a dead horse with wagon, and the Dunker Church in the background after the Battle of Antietam. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 552. Entered according to Act ... More

[The Peninsula, Virginia A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfiel...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Photograph of a gun captured by 12th Maine and 17th New York Infantry.

Confederate Artillery captured at Missouri (i.e. Missionary) Ridge hea...

No. 8123. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. V, p. 69". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[Richmond, Virginia, vicinity. 1st New York Pettit's Battery, Artiller...

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

Dismantling of the rebel forts after the storming of Petersburgh (i.e....

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing and sitting on a rifled cannon and other artillery in the interior of a Confederate fort. No. 3205. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Date... More

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. New York, in light marching order

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The advance agent of modern civilization / Keppler.

Print shows William II, German Emperor, with wings fashioned out of swords, riding on a large cannon being pulled and pushed by members of the clergy. Among the crowd following in the background are two banners... More

[Brooklyn, N.Y., entrance to Fort Hamilton]

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Richmond, Virginia, vicinity. 20-pdr. v Parrott rifled guns of the 1s...

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

[Unknown location. 6-pdr. field gun, model 1841]

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batt...

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

Washington, District of Columbia. Artilleryillery group 3d Regiment Ma...

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

[Charleston Harbor, S.C. Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren standing by a D...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts; different view]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

Washington, District of Columbia. Officers of 3d Regiment Massachusett...

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

View from the parapet of Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor (i.e. Sulliv...

Stereograph showing a cannon inside the battery of Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, South Carolina. No. 3123, part of series: War Views. Printed on card: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 591 (i.e. 5... More

[The Peninsula, Virginia A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfiel...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Photograph of a gun captured by 12th Maine and 17th New York Infantry.

A quiet day in the diamond battery - portrait of a Lancaster 68 pounde...

Print shows a large Lancaster cannon in a British artillery battery. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson. First series. Lond... More

Fort Johnson, Charleston Harbor, S.C. Fort Sumter in the distance

Photograph shows mounted guns with view of Fort Sumter in the background. No. B1194. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

300 pdr. [i.e. pounder] Parrot Rifle, Fort Chatfield, Morris Isand

Photograph shows a group of soldiers by the 300 pound Parrot rifled cannon with the name "Col. Brayton" inscribed on it in battery Chatfield on Morris Island. No. 4308. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. V, ... More

Secesh Gun, Fort Welles [i.e., Wells], Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph shows a cannon at Fort Wells, two Union soldiers appear to the left and right of the gun. Title is inscribed in ink on the bottom of the mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; Wi... More

Bronze guns in west battery, Santiago, 1898

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, or cannon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Captured Insurgent smooth bore, Zapote

Big gun near the Zapote River, Luzon, Philippines. No. 260. Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Along the sea coast. Akka from the bay

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cannon, artillery gun, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Target drills of the students of the fortress-artillery (Imperial Sch...

Cannon elevated on tracks under portico of building, with students, some standing at attention, during drill. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 4. No. 342. In alb... More

Batteries of field pieces in arsenal, Washington, D.C. (Andrew J. Russ...

Cannons lined along street in foreground. No. 175. 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

Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Fort Brady on the James River, m...

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

Charleston, South Carolina. Rifled cannon in the Arsenal yard

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

View in Water Battery, James River, Virginia Ready to fire

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing near a cannon inside the battery. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Forms part of: Civil War Pho... More

Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Fort Brady on the James River, m...

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

[Fort Pulaski, Ga. The "Beauregard" gun]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862.

Capitol March composed by Louis Berge

Music cover showing U.S. Capitol with cannon and flags in foreground. "OP. 45." LOT subdivision subject: District of Columbia. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Published by Jo... More

[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts; different view]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

[Damaged cannon and artillery inside Port Hudson after the siege]

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff. #9 and C.D.E. inscribed on verso. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil... More

Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers of 4th New York heavy Artillery loading ...

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

[Arlington, Virginia Guns and gun-crews of Fort Richardson]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Photograph of 1st Connecticut Artillery drilling at Fort Richardson.

Interior view of Fort Brady, James River, Virginia, near Dutch Gap Can...

Union soldiers by two large cannons positioned behind fortifications. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. B689.

Battery - 1st N.Y. Artillery Battalion near Fair Oaks, June 1862

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

Battery D, 2d (i.e. 5th?) U.S. Artillery, going into action on south s...

No. 4212. Caption on verso from Gardner's photographic sketchbook of the war: "Battery D, Second United States Artillery". Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gard... More

[John B. Gallie gun, Fort McAllister, Georgia]

Title devised by Library staff based on identification by David Richardson, Jack Melton, and Talley Kirkland, September 2015. Photo formerly misidentified as Swamp Angel gun, Morris Island, South Carolina. Date... More

[East Battery, Charleston, S.C.] during American Civil War

Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Smith's battery and Round Top, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, park architecture, outdoors, romantic atmospheric landscape, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington (Georges), Président de la République des Etats-unis d'Amér...

Print shows George Washington, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, holding hat in right hand, with left hand resting on the barrel of cannon, an aide keeps his horse ready in the background. ... More

Maj. General Sherman and staff This view was taken in the trenches bef...

Stereograph shows Sherman standing with officers next to cannon before siege of Atlanta in 1864. From the studio of Mathew Brady. E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. acquired the negatives in exchange for photographic sup... More

[Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia Confederate brass mountain howitzers]

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photogra... More

[Petersburg, Virginia The "Dictator," a closer view]

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

Famous Battery "E" of 1st Artillery. These brave men and the Hotchkiss...

Fifteen military men in uniform posed with three Hotchkiss guns in front of army tents. The cannon are Hotchkiss Mountain Guns of 1.65 in. They are sometimes referred to as Mountain Rifles. (Source: Ed Dittus, ... More

Copr. Paul Wernert [i.e. Weinert] and gunners of Battery "E" 1st Artil...

Seven Lakota scouts and four uniformed Euro-Americans posed behind an artillery piece or Hotchkiss gun, probably in the Pine Ridge Reservation near Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The cannon are Hotchkiss Mountain ... More

[Richmond, Virginia, vicinity. 20-pdr guns of the 1st New York Battery...

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

Same gun, as shown in no. 1020, with magazine traverse

No. 1021. Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River. Alternate title devised by Library staff from information on negative sleeve. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Libra... More

[District of Columbia. Sergeants of 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, ...

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

View on the Point Battery, Charleston, S.C., showing the gun in the Ch...

Stereograph showing a group of men and boys at the base of the cannon. No. 3092. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. in 1865. Hand written on verso... More

View on the Point Battery, Charleston, S.C., showing the gun in the Ch...

[Charleston Harbor, S.C. Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren standing by a D...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

[Fort Pulaski, Ga. The "Beauregard" gun]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862.

[Alexandria, Virginia Battery Rodgers at Hunting Creek and the Potoma...

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

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