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The Moore House, near Yorktown, Virginia, showing effect of fire from Confederate batteries

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

Arlington, Virginia. Batteries in Fort No. 2 Fort Whipple

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Richmond, Virginia. Smoke stack of C.S. Ram VIRGINIA No. 2. Holes made by Federal batteries

Richmond, Virginia. Smoke stack of C.S. Ram VIRGINIA No. 2. Holes made...

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Seige of Yorktown, Virginia: Confederate water batteries

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.

Fort Story coast defense. Target practice at Fort Story, Virginia. This soldier analyzes hits and misses at the control post of one of Uncle Sam's coast artillery batteries..

Fort Story coast defense. Target practice at Fort Story, Virginia. Thi...

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

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 projectile, a shell bursting on the rebel batteries at Sewells Point

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

Perilous position of the U.S. Steam Sloop Seminole, while under a terrific fire from three batteries at Evansport shipping point, Potomac river, Oct. 15, 1861-10 oclock A.M.

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

Rebel pickets dead, in Fredericksburg. Pontoon bridge, Union batteries firing on the rebel works back of the city. From the hill in the background of picture

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 Great Bethel

[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

Fort Myer, Virginia. A sergeant at Fort Myer, Virginia demonstrates a "walkie-talkie" in the field. This is the latest and most compact two-way radio in use by the Army. The unit is complete, containing batteries, mechanism, and aerial which telescopes into the case when not in use for this instrument

Fort Myer, Virginia. A sergeant at Fort Myer, Virginia demonstrates a ...

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Entrance to Aquia Creek, the Channel runs past the batteries

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

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 foreground

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]

[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.

Colonel Michael Corcoran, at the Battle of Bull Run, Virginia-July 21st 1861: The desperate and bloody charge of the "Gallant Sixty Ninth," on the rebel batteries

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

Colonel Burnsides brigade at Bull Run, First and Second Rhode Island, and Seventy-First New York Regiments, with their Artillery, Attacking the Rebel Batteries at Bull Run. Sketched on the spot by A. Waud

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

View of the harbor of Pensacola--Santa Rosa Island and Fort Pickens in the fore-ground, Rebel batteries and Navy-Yard in the distance / / sketched by our special artist. The great review at Bailey's Cross Road, Virginia, on November 20, 1861 / sketched by our special artist from the top of a barn

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

[Fair Oaks, Virginia, vicinity. Horatio G. Gibson's C and G Batteries]

[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.

Smoke-stack of Confederate iron-clad Virginia on wharf at Richmond, Virginia, showing effect of shot in attack on Federal batteries on James River

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

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.

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

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 by Federal batteries

Richmond, Virginia. Smoke stack of C.S. Ram VIRGINIA No. 2. Holes made...

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[Federal troops driving the rebels from one of their batteries at Great Bethel

[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

Perilous position of the U.S. Steam Sloop Seminole, while under a terrific fire from three batteries at Evansport shipping point, Potomac river, Oct. 15, 1861-10 oclock A.M.

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

Blockade of the Potomac. Map showing Union and Rebel batteries January 1862. The Rebels evacuated all their batteries night of 4th March 1862.
Action between the U.S. vessels Pawnee and Freeborn and the rebel batteries at Acquia [sic] Creek

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 Great Bethel

[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, intrenchments and encampments in Virginia-the fortifications for the protection of Richmond

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

A complete map of Richmond and its fortifications within a circle of 12 miles showing the numerous forts, batteries and the range of their fire, and the various obstacles that impede the approach of the Federal army, also, the principal towns & plantations, in the immediate vicinity of Richmond, together with several of the battle fields of 1862.

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

Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village

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Rebel pickets dead, in Fredericksburg. Pontoon bridge, Union batteries firing on the rebel works back of the city. From the hill in the background of picture

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 batteries at Acquia [sic] Creek

Action between the U.S. vessels Pawnee and Freeborn and the rebel batt...

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

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

Rebel pickets dead, in Fredericksburg. Pontoon bridge, Union batteries firing on the rebel works back of the city. From the hill in the background of picture

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 Fort Lyon with extended works.

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 troops and sailors from the gunboat Western World, beyond Fort Jackson, Savannah River -- Expedition fired on by the Rebels / from a sketch by our special artist.  The war in Virginia ; The U.S. steamer Wyandank, dismounting and removing guns from the Rebel batteries at Cockpit Point, on the Potomac River, March 11 / from a sketch by Mr. V.O. Traynor, quartermaster of the Wyandank.

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, and Seventy-First New York Regiments, with their Artillery, Attacking the Rebel Batteries at Bull Run. Sketched on the spot by A. Waud

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 terrific fire from three batteries at Evansport shipping point, Potomac river, Oct. 15, 1861-10 oclock A.M.

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 21st 1861: The desperate and bloody charge of the "Gallant Sixty Ninth," on the rebel batteries

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

Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village

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View of the rebel position at Mine run--2nd corps batteries in foreground

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

Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village

Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village

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The Rebel forces under General Jackson advancing upon the Rappahannock Station at the river - National batteries replying to the Rebel artillery, August 23, being the commencement of the battles between Gens. Pope and Lee and Jackson, ending at Bull Run, August 30 / sketch by -- Edwin Forbes.

The Rebel forces under General Jackson advancing upon the Rappahannock...

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Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village

Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village

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Map of the seat of war, positions of the rebel forces, batteries, entrenchments, and encampments in Virginia-the fortifications for the protection of Richmond

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 of brigades and batteries. [July 1, 1862].

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 foreground

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 firing on the rebel works back of the city. From the hill in the background of picture

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 projectile, a shell bursting on the rebel batteries at Sewells Point

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

Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village

Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village

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