The Moore House, near Yorktown, Virginia, showing effect of fire from ...
No. 4224. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, pl. 15. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Arlington, Virginia. Batteries in Fort No. 2 Fort Whipple
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The great fight at Charleston S.C. April, 7th 1863: between 9 United S...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2831
Richmond, Virginia. Smoke stack of C.S. Ram VIRGINIA No. 2. Holes made...
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[Cannon mounted in the camp of Duryea's and Bainbridge's Batteries, 15...
Title devised by Library staff from caption information on back and Miller, v. 2, pg. 217. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV50 ;Port Hudson. "XXXUI-6" a... More
Seige of Yorktown, Virginia: Confederate water batteries
Tents and houses; bay in left backgrd. Civil War Collection. No. 452. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Forts; Geogr.; C.W. Artillery; C.W. Campaigns Yorktown.
General Bragg's camp, as seen from Fort Pickens / / drawn by an office...
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 June 15, p. 373. Public domain photograph of a locomotive, train car, railroad trucks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Iron clad frigate New Ironsides and two Ericsson batteries going into ...
Public domain scan of a print with maritime landscape, ship in the harbor, sea, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Fort Pulaski, Georgia. Distant view showing the effect of the fire fro...
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This is Brush Mountain from foot of Kennesaw. Position of federal batt...
Title inscribed above image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.575) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of the Rebe...
[Scale 1:30,000]. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 380 Another issue. Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals. Overprinted to show positions occupied... More
[Interior of Fort Wagner in April, 1865. Charleston Harbor, S.C. Low a...
Brady Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. South Carolina. Civil War, 1861-1865.
Entrance to Aquia Creek, the Channel runs past the batteries
Landscape along creek. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image from left to right: camps behind the woods; split rock battery; funnels fish houses; South battery; camp behind the woods; camps behind ... More
Entrance to Aquia Creek, the Channel runs past the batteries
Landscape along creek. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image from left to right: camps behind the woods; split rock battery; funnels fish houses; South battery; camp behind the woods; camps behind ... More
View of the rebel position at Mine run--2nd corps batteries in foregro...
Image overdrawn with numbered grid to guide engravers. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Roe's Farm; Clark Mountain. Inscribed below image: Arnolds battery, F & ... More
[Fair Oaks, Virginia, vicinity. Horatio G. Gibson's C and G Batteries]
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.
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
Perilous position of the U.S. Steam Sloop Seminole, while under a terr...
Broadside view of a steamship engaged in battle. Signed below title: L. Sands, US Navy. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: Sketched by Louis Sands; See Seminole sent by Crane, [T.W.F.?]. Formerly... More
[Cannon mounted in the camp of Duryea's and Bainbridge's Batteries, 15...
Title devised by Library staff from caption information on back and Miller, v. 2, pg. 217. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV50 ;Port Hudson. "XXYUI-11" ... More
Rebel pickets dead, in Fredericksburg. Pontoon bridge, Union batteries...
Four Confederates lie dead, while a Union soldier looks on, bridge in background. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: Six Rebel Pickets- lay dead in front of this city, and up to sunday were not bu... More
[Federal troops driving the rebels from one of their batteries at Grea...
Title inscribed above image. Inscribed on verso: Battle June 10th 1861, Great Bethel, Va.; 5th N.Y., Pierces div. Formerly Waud no. B-59. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.824) Forms part of: Morgan col... More
The attack of the 2nd Iowa Regt. on the rebel batteries at Fort Donels...
Feb. 1862. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Colonel Michael Corcoran, at the Battle of Bull Run, Virginia-July 21s...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1318
[Cannon mounted in the camp of Duryea's and Bainbridge's Batteries, 15...
Title devised by Library staff from caption information on back and Miller, v. 2, pg. 217. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV50 ;Port Hudson. "XXYUI-11" ... More
Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states,...
Print shows Confederate soldiers firing cannons from an artillery battery, bombarding Fort Sumter in the distance.
Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of the Rebe...
Scale ca. 1:30,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 382 Another issue. Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals. Enlarged issue covering all of James... More
The United States monitor "Neosho" engaging three Rebel batteries on t...
Published in: Harper's weekly, 1864. Public domain photograph of a navy ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Colonel Burnsides brigade at Bull Run, First and Second Rhode Island, ...
Title printed below image. Printed below image: Colonel Burnside; Governor Sprague. From: New York Illustrated News, August 5, 1861, pp. 216-217. See Waud, no. 717, for original drawing. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919... More
Fort Pulaski, Georgia. Distant view showing the effect of the fire fro...
Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Forts, batteries, and a photographic studio in Virginia]
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 Nov. 23, p. 742. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Grant's transports running the batteries, Confederate States of Americ...
Soldiers at Vicksburg, 1863; Confederate gun crew in foreground. Illus. in: Harper's pictorial history of the civil war / Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden, c1894, v. 2, p. 455.
[Fair Oaks, Virginia, vicinity. Horatio G. Gibson's C and G Batteries]
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.
Admiral Farragut's fleet engaging the rebel batteries at Port Hudson, ...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0057
View of the harbor of Pensacola--Santa Rosa Island and Fort Pickens in...
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 December 7, pp. 776-777. Public domain photograph of a navy ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 April 27, pp. 264-265. Public domain photograph related to Confederate States of America, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picry... More
Smoke-stack of Confederate iron-clad Virginia on wharf at Richmond, Vi...
No. B223. 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
Position of Taylor's and McAllister's batteries during the battle at F...
Wood engraving after sketch by Alexander Simplot. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 6, (1862 March 15), p. 164. No ref. copy. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ.... More
Confederate batteries on James River above Dutch Gap, April, 1865
Mounted with 5 other photographs showing different views in the same location. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Confederate soldiers who had evidently been shelled by our batteries o...
Photograph shows dead bodies on the ground. Photographic Incidents of the War. From Gardner's Gallery, corner of 7th and D streets, Washington, D.C. No. 236. Negative by T. H. O'Sullivan. Entered according to ... More
The great fight at Charleston S.C. April, 7th 1863: between 9 United S...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2831
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
Richmond, Virginia. Smoke stack of C.S. Ram VIRGINIA No. 2. Holes made...
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Patapsco engaging Sullivans Id. Batteries.
Broadside view of an ironclad shelling a fort in Charleston, S.C. Harbor. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed above image: red top to stack. Possibly by William Waud. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2... More
[Federal troops driving the rebels from one of their batteries at Grea...
Title inscribed above image. Inscribed on verso: Battle June 10th 1861, Great Bethel, Va.; 5th N.Y., Pierces div. Formerly Waud no. B-59. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.824) Forms part of: Morgan col... More
The new batteries erected on Morris Island for the defence of Charlest...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 March 30, p. 293.
Admiral Farragut's fleet engaging the rebel batteries at Port Hudson, ...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0057
Encampment of Palmetto Guard, Sumter Guard, and Marion Artillery, the ...
Photograph shows three Confederate soldiers amidst the fortifications at their camp at Cummings Point on Morris Island in preparation for the capture of Fort Sumter. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015... More
Perilous position of the U.S. Steam Sloop Seminole, while under a terr...
Broadside view of a steamship engaged in battle. Signed below title: L. Sands, US Navy. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: Sketched by Louis Sands; See Seminole sent by Crane, [T.W.F.?]. Formerly... More
Action between the U.S. vessels Pawnee and Freeborn and the rebel batt...
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[Federal troops driving the rebels from one of their batteries at Grea...
Title inscribed above image. Inscribed on verso: Battle June 10th 1861, Great Bethel, Va.; 5th N.Y., Pierces div. Formerly Waud no. B-59. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.824) Forms part of: Morgan col... More
The seat of war in Virginia. Positions of the rebel forces, batteries,...
Scale ca. 1:800,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 451.3 From the New York Herald, morning edition, June 17, 1861. p. 1. Later version of this map was published in the London American. See entry no. 450.3. Descr... More
Bird's-eye view of the attack on the rebel batteries on and near the i...
Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 6, (1862 April 5), p. 212. No ref. copy. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; CW Battles; C.W. Navy; U.S. Hist .
Vicksburg Missp. and the Rebel batteries 1863.
Shows the western theater of the war, focusing on Vicksburg. The Vicksburg & Jackson, and Vicksburg & Texas railroads are indicated.
A complete map of Richmond and its fortifications within a circle of 1...
Scale ca. 1:54,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 628 "As a guide to note the approach of the Federal army, this map is invaluable, as the plan of its fortifications is taken from a correct drawing of a Southern... More
Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village
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Map showing the Rebel batteries at Island no. 10 & vicinity for the de...
Scale 1:12,000. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 299 The number and type of guns in the "batteries on Kentucky shore" and in the "batteries on Island no. 10" are included in the legend. Description derived from pub... More
Batteries at Grand Gulf captured by the United States Mississippi Squa...
Scale ca. 1:8,700. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 271.2 From Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with an appendix, containing reports from officers. December 1863, (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1863)... More
New map of Charleston Harbor, showing the scene of the great naval con...
Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 376 Shows the coast from Long Island to the North Edisto River. Indicates drainage, roads, railroads, and dwellings with names of inhabitants. Channels, water depth... More
Rebel pickets dead, in Fredericksburg. Pontoon bridge, Union batteries...
Four Confederates lie dead, while a Union soldier looks on, bridge in background. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: Six Rebel Pickets- lay dead in front of this city, and up to sunday were not bu... More
Action between the U.S. vessels Pawnee and Freeborn and the rebel batt...
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Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of the Rebe...
Scale 1:30,000. Another issue. Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 381 Overprinted to show 1/4-mile concentric ... More
Rebel pickets dead, in Fredericksburg. Pontoon bridge, Union batteries...
Four Confederates lie dead, while a Union soldier looks on, bridge in background. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: Six Rebel Pickets- lay dead in front of this city, and up to sunday were not bu... More
The U.S. forts and batteries near Alexandria Va. Sept 1862 showing For...
Shows the locations of Union fortifications surrounding Alexandria, Va., including forts Lyon and Ellsworth in Fairfax County. The locations of Hunting Creek and the Potomac River are also indicated.
The war in Georgia -- Reconnoissance of a detachment of national troop...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 13, no. 336 (1862 April 19), p. 376.
Colonel Burnsides brigade at Bull Run, First and Second Rhode Island, ...
Title printed below image. Printed below image: Colonel Burnside; Governor Sprague. From: New York Illustrated News, August 5, 1861, pp. 216-217. See Waud, no. 717, for original drawing. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919... More
Perilous position of the U.S. Steam Sloop Seminole, while under a terr...
Broadside view of a steamship engaged in battle. Signed below title: L. Sands, US Navy. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: Sketched by Louis Sands; See Seminole sent by Crane, [T.W.F.?]. Formerly... More
Colonel Michael Corcoran, at the Battle of Bull Run, Virginia-July 21s...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1318
Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village
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Map of a part of the east cavalry field showing positions of division ...
Scale 1:7200. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 351.2 "No. 692" is in the upper left corner. Map of the area between York Pike and Hanover Road showing battlefield markers, fence lines, roads, woodland, and contour ... 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
[Cannon mounted in the camp of Duryea's and Bainbridge's Batteries, 15...
Title devised by Library staff from caption information on back and Miller, v. 2, pg. 217. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV50 ;Port Hudson. "XXXUI-6" a... More
Confederate soldiers who had evidently been shelled by our batteries o...
Photograph shows dead bodies on the ground. Photographic Incidents of the War. From Gardner's Gallery, corner of 7th and D streets, Washington, D.C. No. 236. Negative by T. H. O'Sullivan. Entered according to ... More
View of the rebel position at Mine run--2nd corps batteries in foregro...
Image overdrawn with numbered grid to guide engravers. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Roe's Farm; Clark Mountain. Inscribed below image: Arnolds battery, F & ... More
Encampment of Palmetto Guard, Sumter Guard, and Marion Artillery, the ...
Photograph shows three Confederate soldiers amidst the fortifications at their camp at Cummings Point on Morris Island in preparation for the capture of Fort Sumter. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015... More
Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village
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Map of Charleston Harbor with Morris Island and James, Broad, Folly, a...
Regional map of Charleston Harbor extending along the Atlantic Coast from Sullivan's Island just north of the harbor entrance to St. John's and Kiawah islands to the south. Indicates the presence of Union warsh... More
The Rebel forces under General Jackson advancing upon the Rappahannock...
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Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of the Rebe...
Scale 1:30,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 378, 379 Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals. Description derived from published bibliography. A... More
This is Brush Mountain from foot of Kennesaw. Position of federal batt...
Title inscribed above image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.575) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village
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The steamship Star of the West, with reinforcements for Major Anderson...
Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 11, no. 269 (1861 Jan. 19), pp. 136-137. Reference copy may be in LOT 4416-E (1861). Caption card... More
Tomlinson's map of Vicksburg, showing all the surrounding fortificatio...
Scale ca. 1:65,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 286 At top of map: New map of Vicksburg, showing the scene of Gen. Grants operations, together with all of the fortifications, batteries, rifle pits &c. Text to ... More
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Confederate soldiers who had evidently been ...
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The war in Louisiana - destruction of the U.S. transport John Warner b...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, l864 June 18, p. 197.
Map of the seat of war, positions of the rebel forces, batteries, entr...
Scale ca. 1:800,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 450.3 Includes a mileage table. Reference is made in the lower margin to the "battle of Bull's [sic] Run, fought on Sunday, the 21st July [1861], about 22,000 u... More
Map of the battle of Malvern Hill, showing, approximately, positions o...
Scale ca. 1:23,500. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 560 From Century illustrated monthly magazine, v. 30, Aug. 1885. p. 617. Gives names of commanders, roads, drainage, vegetation, relief by hachures, houses, and ... More
View of the rebel position at Mine run--2nd corps batteries in foregro...
Image overdrawn with numbered grid to guide engravers.
Rebel pickets dead, in Fredericksburg. Pontoon bridge, Union batteries...
Four Confederates lie dead, while a Union soldier looks on, bridge in background. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: Six Rebel Pickets- lay dead in front of this city, and up to sunday were not bu... 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
Patapsco engaging Sullivans Id. Batteries.
Broadside view of an ironclad shelling a fort in Charleston, S.C. Harbor. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed above image: red top to stack. Possibly by William Waud. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2... More
Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village
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