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Dragging artillery through the mud

Title printed below image. Published in Harper's Weekly, March 19, 1864, p. 188. Original drawing is Waud no. 169. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.169) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Confederates advancing to the capture of disabled guns. Gaines Mills

Signed lower left: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed right of image with arrow indicator: Rifle pits. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.272) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings... More

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

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

Stereograph showing a mounted cannon in the foreground and ammunition inside the fort. A building with two chimneys is in the distance. No. 3122. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Co... More

Reconnoisance [sic] by Bufords Cavalry towards the Rapidan river

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed upper left: Half this sketch missing. Inscribed lower right: Generl [sic.] Bu[ford]. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 3, 1863, p. 632-633. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/... More

2nd Corps, Batteries in position on the bank of the North Anna. 2nd Ma...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harpers Weekly, 18 June 1864, p. 396. 2nd Maine in IX Corps, not II Corps. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.112) Forms part of:... More

Scene on the dock at the Rip Raps. Testing the Sawyer gun and projecti...

Title on verso. Inscribed below title on verso: The man in the white coat is Gen. Wool. [The man in the white] hat is Gen. Butler. Published in: New York Illustrated News, September 9, 1861, p. 289. Gift, J.P. ... More

[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.

Taking up position. Cold Harbor. June 2, 1864

Signed lower left: ARW. Title inscribed lower right. Printed(?) in black ink upper left: Ed. May 2nd. 1864. Inscribed on verso Advance upon the left Hancock. Formerly Waud no. B-24. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC... More

[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

[Yorktown, Virginia Confederate water Battery Magruder, with Rodman sm...

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

Fort Amador, Pacific entrance to Panama Canal, Panama City, Former Pan...

Survey number: HABS CZ-3 Public domain scan of a plan of settlement buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Early morning in a Russian battery during the siege of Port Arthur]

H63422 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7741.

Charge of Louisiana brigade Gettysburgh [sic]

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed upper right: It was sometime after sunset. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.422) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1863. Forms part of: M... More

Death of General Polk Pine Mountain, Kennesaw

Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed upper right: 51. Action at Pine Mountain took place in the course of the general assault associated with Kennesaw Mountain. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.500) ... More

Death of General Polk Pine Mountain, Kennesaw

Rebel rifle pit 3 ft high along the road at 5 forks

Title inscribed upper left. Formerly Waud no. B-85. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.849) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Falls Church, July 1st, 1861, Outpost

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed left margin: Tompkins cavalry camped in Trees on left. Formerly Waud no. C-28. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.955) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Falls Church, July 1st, 1861, Outpost

[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.

Salute of 161 guns - Public domain drawing

Soldiers in dress uniform prepare to fire a cannon, soldiers marching in background. Title inscribed above image. Inscribed lower right: snow on ground /dark lowering day. Inscribed on LC mat: Alfred Waud, 1861... More

Fort Pillow ?, Tenn., gelatin silver print

Photograph shows mounted guns and fortifications along the perimeter of a fort.

Grant's great campaign--Stevens's battery at Cold Harbor / from a sket...

Soldiers and artillery during battle. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1864 June 25, p. 404.

After the mine Petersburg - Public domain scenic drawing

Very faint sketch with mortar in foreground, hazy battlefield in background. Title inscribed lower right. Formerly Waud no. C-152. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1079) Forms part of: Morgan collectio... More

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

Stereograph showing abandoned artillery, gabions, and chevaux-de-frise on parapet of Fort Sumter. No. 3057. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co... More

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 deck of the Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Necm-i Şevket] / Constant...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 5. No. 625. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdu... More

[Artillery hold in the Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Feth-i Bülend] / Co...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 7. No. 419. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdu... More

[A Gun and gunner] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

U.S.S. Vesuvius, breech of dynamite guns

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Newark, 6-inch gun - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

U.S.S. New York, 4 inch gun and gunner

Public domain image of a American navy warship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Indian[a]; 13 inch guns, forward turret

Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Oregon, 1-pounder and gunner

Jacket title continues: ... George Sanderson. Attribution based on negative D4-20838. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020840. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 19... More

U.S.S. Free Lance, petty officers, 1898

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Texas, tompion of 12-inch gun made of metal from Vizcaya, recor...

Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Kentucky, after turrets - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Join the Royal Marines. Help to man the guns of the fleet / W.H. Smith...

Poster showing marines operating a large cannon on a ship. Public domain photograph - World War One artillery, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Military subjects. Small artillery

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

Some of the artillery parts made by the Turks, Eski-Shehr

Photograph showing parts of weapons on a blanket. Title from verso of item. Stamped on verso: "Please return to Brandt & Kirkpatrick, 35 West 45th Street, New York." Forms part of: Clarence K. Streit Papers (Li... More

PFC Sal de George Manhattan asst. gunner

Rough sketch shows American soldier Sal de George kneeling on the ground operating a box during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal. Inscribed on cover sheet: Mt. Astin [i.e. Austen] - Guadalcanal, 1/2 of a ... More

Feeding "Grannie," shell hoisted into position

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18911. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

"Through it all like horror runs the red resentment of the guns," Oise...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18863. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Commencement of the battle of Hanover Ct. House. 1:45 PM

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image in black ink, left to right: Cavalry. The Rebel Army. Bensons Horse Artillery. Johnsons infantry. Published in: Harper's Weekly... More

Yorktown, Virginia Confederate water Battery Magruder, with Rodman smo...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of... More

Captain Ricketts Battery - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed lower right: Near Charleston Va / March 10. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.372) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Monday's fight. The battle of Charles City road. Fought by Heintzelman...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed lower left: June 30th. Inscribed above image: The 16th N.Y. all wore white straw hats and were without knapsacks but wore the haversack and c... More

Monday's fight. The battle of Charles City road. Fought by Heintzelman...

Gettysburg - Public domain scan / drawing

Rough sketch of horses and wagons. Title inscribed below image. Sketch of saddle on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.621) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Siege of Petersburg. 18th Corps

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed: Right section, Comp. E 3rd N.Y. Arty. Capt. Ashby. 20 pounder parrots. Pencil sketches of fortifications on verso. Published in: Harper's We... More

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Significance: Fort Riley was established in the 1850's to protect settlers and traders traveling along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. It was laid out in a traditional cavalry post plan with limestone officer'... More

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Awaiting the enemy's fire - Public domain carriage drawing

Title inscribed lower left. Formerly attributed to Alfred R. Waud, with the call number DRWG/US - Waud, no. 499 recto (A size). Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.499) Published in: New York Illustrated ... More

Awaiting the enemy's fire - Public domain portrait drawing

[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

Elephant battery of heavy artillery along the Khyber Pass at Campbellp...

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 927. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1... More

[General Warren fighting at Bristoe station]

Title devised from inscriptions. Inscribed upper left: Arnolds Battery. Inscribed upper right: Half this sketch missing. Inscribed below image: General Warren fighting Heths Com Bristow[sic] station of Broad ru... More

Fight at Kelly's Ford. Sleepers battery

Signed lower right: Alf R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image: 10 Mass in foreground. Inscribed above image: Barnard House. Inscribed upper right: Kelly Ville. Inscribed lower left: Genl C... More

Genl. Humphreys charging at the head of his division after sunset of t...

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, January 10, 1863, p. 24-25. Waud no. 751a is Harper's Weekly engraving. Reference print available in the Civil War Dra... More

Left of No. 6, May 5th, 1864 - Public domain drawing

Battery and landscape. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Russet broken into green [and] red dust. Formerly Waud no. B-142. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.906) Forms part of: Morgan ... More

Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Key West, Monroe County, FL

Fort Jefferson was part of Fort Jefferson National Monument from 1935 to 1992. Since then it has been part of Dry Tortugas National Park. The address for the survey has been updated to reflect this change. Sign... More

Naval Operating Base Dutch Harbor & Fort Mears, Ulakta Head Fixed Defe...

Public domain photograph of mountain crater, caldera, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Midnight before Petersburg] - Public domain scan / drawing

Title devised from Harper's Weekly title. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 8, 1864, pp. 648-9. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.735) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 186... More

Explosion of a rebel limber at the battle near Middleburg June 21st

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.79) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Petersburg Sept. 1864. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed on verso: There is a lot of picturesque material now, in the trenches, but I cannot get around to attend to it. I am down, sick and helpless with an acute attack of dysent... More

Let's give him enough and on time / Norman Rockwell.

American soldier firing heavy machine gun. Promotional goal: U.S. B36.J7. 1942. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-0-468088.

A parapet of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), looking toward Morris Island

Stereograph showing abandoned artillery, gabions, and chevaux-de-frise on parapet of Fort Sumter. No. 342, part of series: War Views. Copyright 1865 by John P. Soule. Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on ... More

[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.

2nd Corps, Batteries in position on the bank of the North Anna. 2nd Ma...

U.S.S. Newark, 6 in. gun and crew

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ordnance ya[rd], Morris Island, near Charleston, S.C.

Stereograph showing an assortment of shells, mounted cannons, and other artillery at the Ordnance depot. Attributed to Samuel A. Cooley, based on LC-B811-3511. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (L... More

Battle of Bentonville, left of action

Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed within image as indicators: Ravine above front of guns; open field. Inscribed above image: 14" x 20". Formerly Waud no. C-102. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1... More

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

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

Battery No. 1.--100 and 200 pounder Parrots opposite Yorktown and Glou...

Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed within image: River. Inscribed upper right: Yorktown in distance as in sketch No 6. guns firing. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 7, 1862, ... More

Presidio of San Francisco, Gun Emplacements, U.S. 101 & I-480, San Fra...

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

[Artillery men] - Public domain drawing

Rough sketch of soldiers and cannon. Title devised. Inscribed above image: Many both sides. No 1 & 2 & gunner do not leave the gun. Rough sketch of two soldiers on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1... More

Gettysburg. View of the hills on the left of our position from the Reb...

Signed lower right and left: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: Gettysburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.16) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

U.S.S. Indiana, 13 inch guns, forward turret

Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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 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.

Gin - engine for drawing the fuzes out of the shell - box with grapesh...

Print shows various devices used with artillery and a cross-section of a petard. Illus. in: A treatise on artillery ... / John Muller. Philadelphia : Printed by Styner and Cist, for J. Norman, 1779, [PL] XXVII... More

[Group of civilians near monument]

Street scenes pedestrians milling around a military monument, artillery in foreground. Title devised. Formerly Waud no. C-139. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1066) Forms part of: Morgan collection of... More

[A Cannon] - Public domain drawing

Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.660) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Soldiers preparing for battle]

May be the battle of Charles City Road. Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-46. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.811) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Ft. Monroe [Gunnery?] - Public domain scan / drawing

Title from inscription below image. Last word of the title is illegible, the conjecture is based on image content. Inscribed vertically upper left margin: No I 6. Faint sketch of man's head above image. Sketch ... More

Grant's Great Campaign--Stevens's Battery at Cold Harbor.

Wood engraving for DRWG/US A Waud, no. 426 (A size). Attributed to A.R. Waud. Title printed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, 25 June 1864, p. 404. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.426a) Form... More

Trenches, Petersburg - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harpers Weekly, 6 August 1864, pp. 504-505. Formerly Waud no. C-153. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1080) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

U.S.S. New York, forecastle gun deck

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "Hart" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020738. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photographer active about 1890

U.S.S. Massachusetts, 6 inch gun and crew

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, 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.

U.S.S. Raleigh, Spanish gun captured at Battle of Manila Bay

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

U.S.S. Kentucky, after turrets, US Navy. Dry Plate Negative by Detroit...

Attribution to Hart based on negative D4-20496. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020498. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photogra... More

U.S.S. Kentucky, quarter deck and after gun turrets

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

U.S.S. Kearsarge, after turrets

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Wolf Battery -- view north over "Chinese Wall" often assaulted by Jap...

H63452 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7777.

For a couple of hours, deliberately shelled that work and others in th...

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0006). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Fall of Guaimaro" by Frederick Funston, Scribner's, 48:585 (Nov. 1910).

U.S. frigate Constitution. Warship photograph collection

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

"Be honest with yourself. Be certain that your so-called reason is not...

Poster showing, in silhouette, soldiers with a cannon. Poster no. 127. W 8768/576.

"Anibyniaeth sydd yn galw am ei dewraf dyn" / V. Sout[a?]y ; printed b...

Poster showing, in silhouette, soldiers with a cannon. Poster is in Welsh. Poster no. 148. Wt. 16434/763.

This gun is "over there"--Where are you? Man the guns of the Navy--Get...

Poster showing a large mounted gun with initials USN. Poster is twice printed over with text: U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 1129 2nd Ave., Near 59th St. N.Y. City. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

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