batteries, history

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

[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

[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.

The new batteries erected on Morris Island for the defence of Charlest...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 March 30, p. 293.

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

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

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

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

[Map of the region east and north of Baton Rouge, showing batteries on...

Blockade of the Potomac. Map showing Union and Rebel batteries January...

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

Batteries de West-point au haut de la Rivière d'York.

Scale ca. 1:5,400. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Includes index to types of guns mounted. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1458 Available also through the Lib... More

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

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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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

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

Picryl description: Public domain historical book on American Civil War, Confederate States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

L'escadre françoise entrant dans Newport sous le feu des batteries et ...

Photograph shows the French fleet, under the command of Comte d'Estaing, approaching Newport, Rhode Island in an effort to engage the British fleet, August 8, 1778; shows several British ships burning in the ba... 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

[Frog's Point avec batteries de Partie de Longue Island.

Scale ca. 1:7,700. Folded title, on label: Reconnoissance de King's bridge. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Relief shown by shading. Sectioned... More

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

Picryl description: Public domain historical book on American Civil War, Confederate States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A Map of Ticonderoga with the old and new lines and batteries,

Scale ca. 1:2,300. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1175 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

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

Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village

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A plan of the town of Boston and its environs, with the lines, batteri...

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps and Charts, 1750-1789, 930 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a r... 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

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain historical book on American Civil War, Confederate States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Picryl description: Public domain historical book on American Civil War, Confederate States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Our naval and military operations at a glance. The coast and land line...

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.