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Momentoes [sic] of the Battlefield

Sketch of a dead horse, partially decomposed. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.612) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Groveton, Virginia. Monument on battlefield of Groveton

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Cedar Mountain, Virginia. Officers of 10th Maine Regt. On the battlefi...

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Gettysburg battlefield - A man plowing a field with two horses

Man with horsedrawn plow on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1882 June 24, pp. 280-281.

Northwest, or no. 1, sheet of preliminary map of Antietam (Sharpsburg)...

Scale ca. 1:10,400. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 250.2 The Geography and Map Division has sheets 1 and 2 of 4 sheets. For a description of sheet 2, see Civil War Maps entry no. 250.3. Map extends from Sharpsbur... More

[Battle scene - soldiers engaged in close fighting on a battlefield]

Title devised by Library staff, other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Chugoku hanga (Chinese) woodblock print. Forms part of: Japanese prints and draw... More

President Roosevelt finishing his address in the rain, dedication of J...

Stereograph showing a view of the crowd holding umbrellas for the rain-soaked dedication of the New Jersey State Monument at Antietam Battlefield. H36682 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5244. On recto: Copyrighted ... More

On the boat to Constantinople and Greece was the pet horse of the Quee...

Photographs show the Queen Marie of Romania's horse in a stall on a boat with attendant and two Montenegrin guards outside the entrance to the Pera Palace Hotel, waiting for İsmet İnönü (Ismet Pasha), Istanbul... More

Presentation of French Battlefield Monument to Marine Corps, 6/13/25

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Hero's funeral. Funeral rites for Maj. General Adolphus Washington Gre...

A group of horses pulling a carriage down a street. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

House on the farm rented by Erasty Emvich. Near Battlefield, Indiana. ...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barn erected by Erasty Emvich, tenant farmer near Battlefield, Indiana

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View of the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park in Brownsvi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the grounds of the May 8, 1846, Battle of Palo Alto, the first major conflict in a border dispute that soon precip... More

View of the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park in Brownsvi...

Antietam, Maryland. Battlefield near Sherrick's house where the 79th N...

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[Soldiers preparing cannons on the battlefield]

Note: Original photograph is out of focus. Title devised by library staff. Gift; George Holmes; July 26, 1941.

Sketched on battlefield of Wilderness May 6th, 1864, 6 o'clock during ...

"Gun in position on the Wilderness battlefield" and "A hot day on the battlefield" on mat. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.224) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Antietam National Battlefield, Visitor Center, 5831 Dunker Church Road...

Survey number: HABS MD-934-B Building/structure dates: 1962 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

[Journey of a slave from the plantation to the battlefield]

Uncut sheet of twelve illustrated cards presenting the journey of a slave from plantation life to the struggle for liberty, for which he gives his life, as a Union soldier during the Civil War. Attributed to J... More

Dedication of monument on Bull Run battlefield / negative by W. Morris...

Photograph showing a group of men, women, and children standing in front of the monument. The monument is twenty seven feet high, made of sandstone, with a hundred pound shell on top.

[Battlefield with soldiers fighting]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Julia Ward Howe" by Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, Delineator, 88:... More

Fair Oaks, Virginia. Old frame house on Fair Oaks battlefield used by ...

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Gettysburg battlefield, Pennsylvania - Mammoth Plate Photograph

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Signal station on Elk Mountain, Md., overlooking battlefield of Antiet...

Photo shows Union soldiers of the Signal Corps atop a small tower made of logs; one man is looking through a long telescope and another stands nearby with a flag on a long pole, another officer is sitting on th... More

Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. Battlefield, American Civil War Glass Ne...

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Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Fair Oaks, Virginia. Old frame house on Fair Oaks battlefield used by ...

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Elk Mountain, Maryland. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield

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Cedar Mountain, Virginia. Bodies of horses on battlefield

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Map of the battlefield of Five-Forks. [March 30-April 1, 1865]

Scale 1:15,840. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 540 Shows entrenchments, villages, roads, "South Side Rail Road," drainage, vegetation, relief by hachures, houses, and names of residents. Description derived from ... More

Maj Cutter's ranch at the Custer battlefield

Drawing shows ranch buildings hidden behind trees across a field. Custer's last stand took place at Little Bighorn, Montana on June 25, 1876. Gedney was a member of the Montana Boundary Survey. Formerly DRWG/US... More

[Horses charging over battlefield]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Panoram no. 5, battlefield, Vicksburg, Miss.

J139058 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; March 11, 1910; DLC/PP-1910:44016.

Map of the battlefield of Gettysburg from original surveys by the engi...

Scale ca. 1:8450. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 351.55 Another edition. The map was redrawn for this edition. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web s... More

The Landscapes of the Battlefield of Franklin, Tennessee, Franklin, Wi...

Significance: The historical significance of these three sites is intertwined with the story of the Civil War Battle of Franklin, 30 November, 1864. Following General William T. Sherman's Union victory in Atla... More

Heroes of battle of Gettysburg paid tribute by surviving brothers-in-a...

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Antietam, Maryland. Battlefield near Sherrick's house where the 79th N...

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View of Centreville Virginia Bull Run battlefield in the distance. Aug...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.202) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Facsimile of the celebrated antrobus portrait of General U.S. Grant, p...

R27382 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Morgan, W.J., & Co.

Old frame house on Fair Oaks battlefield, pierced by hundreds of bulle...

Photograph shows the old frame house, center, with soldiers and tents nearby in Fair Oaks, Virginia. The old frame house was used by Union General Joseph Hooker's Division as a hospital. Brady's Album Gallery,... More

Trossels house - battlefield Gettysburg - near to the barn on the left...

Photograph shows many dead horses on the ground in front of Abraham Trostle's house near the headquarters of General Daniel Edgar Sickles.

Sketched on battlefield of Wilderness May 6th, 1864, 6 o'clock during ...

"Gun in position on the Wilderness battlefield" and "A hot day on the battlefield" on mat. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.224) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The Landscapes of the Battlefield of Franklin, Tennessee, Carnton Plan...

Significance: Carnton was built in 1826 by Randall McGavock (1768-1843), a former Nashville mayor, who passed the house on to his son John. John McGavock (1815-1893) and his wife Carrie made their living farmi... More

[Seven Pines, Virginia Twin houses on battlefield, with 32-pdr. field ...

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

[Cold Harbor, Virginia, vicinity. Unburied dead on the battlefield of ...

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

Fair Oaks, Virginia. Frame house on Fair Oaks battlefield used by Hook...

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Atlas of the battlefield of Antietam, prepared under the direction of ...

Relief shown by contour lines. Indicates roads and streets, houses, names of residents, fences, vegetation, drainage, bridges, and fords. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster imag... More

Battlefield of Gettysburg. Body of a soldier in "the wheat field," ev...

No. 258. 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

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Unfinished Confederate graves near the cente...

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Signal station on Elk Mountain, Md., overlooking battlefield of Antiet...

Cold Harbor, Virginia (vicinity). Collecting remains of dead on the ba...

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Group of Irish brigade as they lay on the battlefield of Antietam, 19t...

Photograph shows dead soldiers, members of the Irish brigade commanded by Gen. Thomas F. Meagher, on the battlefield of Antietam. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 550. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the yea... More

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, Anti...

Survey number: HABS MD-934 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000038

Gettysburg, battlefield of, Scene of Pickett's charge, 974

Photograph shows clump of trees on left that was point of direction for Pickett's soldiers, monument to 2nd Corps placed near where General Alexander S. Webb was wounded, spot in the center where General Armist... More

Battlefield of Bull Run, ruins of the stone bridge

No. B1130. 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 ... More

The harvest of death - Gettysburg, July 4, 1863 [Dead soldiers and hor...

Wood engraving after photograph by Alexander Gardner. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 9, (1865 July 22), p. 452. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

Map of the battlefield of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, showing the positions o...

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 116 Shows relief by hachures, drainage, vegetation, and houses. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web ... More

"City of Paducah" (steamer), St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co., P...

Photograph shows the City of Paducah steamboat tied to the dock with a few passengers on board; workers on the lower deck stand with barrels on the gangway at the front of steamboat.

Monuments to General Custer and his brave men who fell about him, Cust...

H67550 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4G. Public domain photograph - monument, cemetery, graves, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - cemetery, graves, free... More

Panoram no. 3, battlefield, Vicksburg, Miss.

J139056 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; March 11, 1910.

Panoram no. 9, battlefield, Vicksburg, Miss.

J139054 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; March 11, 1910; DLC/PP-1910:44016.

Seven Pines Battlefield, gelatin silver print

Man and a goose on path next to field. J167503 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; March 26, 1912. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. No. 3.

Corner of battlefield, Haelen - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photograph shows dead soldiers and horses in a field after the Battle of Haelen which was fought by the German and Belgian armies on August 12, 1914 near Haelen, Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Comm... More

Tell el-Ful battlefield, etc. Large grave filled with dead Turks.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. M-3 tank crews. M-3 tank crew members, in training at Fort ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Polly Slocum Statue, Moores Creek Battlefield, Currie, North Carolina

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Antietam Road statues at Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland, Anti...

Unburied dead on battlefield - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing decomposed corpses of soldiers on the battlefield at Gaines' Mill, Virginia, several months after the battle. No. 914. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1... More

Atlas of the battlefield of Antietam /

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Trossels house - battlefield Gettysburg - near to the barn on the left...

Photograph shows many dead horses on the ground in front of Abraham Trostle's house near the headquarters of General Daniel Edgar Sickles.

Antietam National Battlefield, Observation Tower, Richardson Avenue, S...

Significance: Antietam's stone Observation Tower was built during the War Department's era of battlefield preservation and interpretation. In 1890, congressional legislation gave the War Department oversight o... More

Old house on the battlefield of Spottsylvania [sic]

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.227) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Confederate dead on the battlefield - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing the dead body of one of Confederate General Ewell's soldiers lying against a barricade where he fell, near Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, May 20, 1864. No. 723. Part of series: The War... More

Bull Run Battlefield area(?) - A black and white photo of a farm

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 and salt, w... More

[Battlefield with exploding shells]

[Dead horse on battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]

Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 226. A glass copy negative is: LC-B811-226.

Yorktown Battlefield Tour Roads, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

For additional documentation, see also HALS VA-77. Significance: Following both existing roads and historic road traces, the nearly nine miles of battlefield tour roads provide for visitor access to significant... More