casualties

Gathered together for burial after the Battle of Antietam

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. 557. Negative by Alex. Gardner. Entered according to Act... More

Lays Ferry. Oostanuala river. May 14-15-16 1864

Possibly by William Waud. Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed within image: Horn Mts. Chattougata Mts. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.624) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

On skirmish line Officer turning to look at a dying soldier

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed on LC mat: White Oak Swamp. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.146) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Civil War envelope showing Corporal Francis Brownell killing James Ja...

Addressed to Wharton Gray, Amenia Termin[al?], Amenia, Du[t]chess, N.Y.; postmarked New York; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljmem

[Priest and soldiers praying over bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting ...

H63731 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905.

[Funeral of the noted Russian engineer Sakharoff -- looking w. across ...

Photograph shows a crowd of Russians surrounding a priest; in background rail cars and the harbor. H63726 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereogra... More

[Hasty funeral rites - last honors to the dead Russian heroes - in bes...

H63450 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7731.

Turcos, wounded at Charleroi, in Paris

Photograph shows Algerian tirailleurs (infantry soldiers) in Paris, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Moscow. A street barricade. Bolshevik graves

From disbound album of James Maxwell Pringle's business trip to Russia and Asia for First National City Bank of New York. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2010:041

A poster which was displayed in the South of France to arouse interest...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph c... More

Learn to adjust your respirator correct and quick. Don't breathe while...

Poster showing a soldier on the battlefield, collapsing and clutching his throat as a result of poison gas.

Gesellige Vereinigung Münchner Künstler e.v. Weihnachts Ausstellung zu...

Poster shows a blind soldier being led by a soldier with his arm in a sling. Text announces a Christmas exhibit to benefit war invalids, particularly the blind. The exhibit is sponsored by the Social Society of... More

Warmes Herz, offene Hand unsern Kriegsbeschädigten! Gib zur Ludendorff...

Poster encouraging people to contribute to the Ludendorff Fund for War Disabled with slogan, "Warm Heart, open hand for those disabled by the war." From: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.

Warmes Herz, offene Hand unsern Kriegsbeschädigten! Gib zur Ludendorff...

Poster encouraging contributions to the Ludendorff Fund for War Disabled. From: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.

And they thought we couldn't fight - Victory Liberty Loan / Clyde Fors...

Poster showing a wounded soldier on the battlefield, carrying several German helmets as trophies. No. 5-CC.

Cavallier (side view) - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows French soldier, whose face was disfigured in World War I, wearing a mask made by Anna Coleman Ladd. No. 2725. Forms part of the American Red Cross Collection (Library of Congress)

Wounded being treated in an old church, 4th Ambulance Co., 1st Div

World War I, Meuse, France. Photo by Sgt. J.J. Marshall. U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Machine guns; WWI France; WWI Medical; Shelf.

Capt. Dennis, ARC delegate at Blois together with staff. This picture ...

Title from negative or negative sleeve. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Meadows. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the Amer... More

Wounded American soldiers arriving at American Red Cross hospital at J...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group title: Hospital, U.S.A. France. On caption card: ... More

Here's a lad enjoying his own private carriage for once at any rate. Y...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Date received: 4 September 1918. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group title: Wounded, ... More

Wounded Americans convalescing at the fine new South African Hut Hospi...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Group title: Hospitals U.S. in England. Title from caption card for LC A61... More

Dr. Jos. Blake, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Dr. Joseph Augustus Blake (1864-1937) speaking at the "Day of the Wounded" event at Victory Way, Park Avenue between 45th and 50th Streets, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017)... More

The fourth class passengers on the Roumanian trains travel on the roof...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Roumanian Comm. Group title: Roumania. Transportation. On caption card: (Z-1... More

A new form of treatment Lewis Hine

Photograph showing soldiers in a rehabilitation treatment center working at various crafts. Inscribed on lower left corner of photo: RC1479. Includes lengthy typed caption on verso. (American Red Cross) c16, d... More

Disabled veteran, Edward Hines Memorial Hospital, Chicago

Photograph shows an unidentified disabled American veteran sitting in a wheelchair, facing front, with bandage on right hand and right leg amputated above the knee, at the Edward Hines Memorial Hospital in Chic... More

Disturbance. Attack on an Arab buss [i.e., bus] July 4, 1938. Casualti...

One of the 4-men German patrol who didn't get back / Victor A. Lundy.

Sketch showing German soldier lying dead on the ground in France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 8, [p. 9] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).

Unter diesem Schneehaufen im Garten derselben Siedlung lagen gen mit A...

Photographs show corpses in the snow in a wooded area of civilians executed during the assault on, Metgethen, Germany, by Soviet troops in 1945. In album: Bildbericht über von den Bolschewisten ermordete und g... More

Unidentified concentration camp(s), Germany, at time of liberation by ...

Public domain photograph related to World War Two, National Socialism, The Third Reich, Europe under Nazi occupation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Metgethen, Eichenweg 3/5. Vor dem Hause eine etwa 75 Jahre alte weibli...

Photographs show a corpse in the snow of a woman executed during the assault on Metgethen, Germany, by Soviet troops in 1945. In album: Bildbericht über von den Bolschewisten ermordete und geschändete Deutsche... More

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Dead Confederate soldier, in trench beyond a sec...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

Battle of Friday on the Chickahominy

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed above image: Porter, McCall, Slocum, Sykes, and Sumner attacked by a superior force of the rebels under Jackson and Lee. Published in: Harper... More

The greatest mother in the world / A. E. Foringer.

Poster showing a monumental Red cross nurse cradling a wounded soldier on a stretcher. Form N.Y. 32, Second War Fund. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War... More

Charge of the 6th Michigan cavalry over the rebel earthworks nr. Falli...

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.198) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1868. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Hookers division engaging at the battle of Williamsburg

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: Beyond first line of soldiers a mass of felled trees while the heads of a second line in it engaged. Represent soldiers with pan... More

Just after the battle - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Rote Kreuz-Sammlung 1914. Sammlung zugunsten der Freiwilligen Krankenp...

Poster shows wounded German soldier; in background a large red cross. Text: Red Cross Collection Drive 1914. Collection to Aid volunteer nursing in the war. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Pu... More

I wonder why he comes not - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

This view was taken in the trenches of the rebel Fort Mahone, called b...

Stereograph showing a partially dressed Confederate boy lying dead outside a bomb proof in the trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia. No. 3187, part of series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the... More

Into the cornfield - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed lower left. Formerly Waud no. C-131. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1058 verso) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Fighting in the woods Kearneys division repulsing the enemy Monday Jun...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 9, 1862, p. 500. Inscribed on box in image: 1000 ... Cartridges Call 52. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1... More

The Czar sees his forces returning

Print shows Nicholas II waking from a nightmare showing the battered and wounded Russian forces returning from battle with the Japanese. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Missionary Ridge, Tenn., Nov 25 1863.

Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed under image: Corse [sic] v Cleburnes fight Missionary ridge, Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.230) Reference print availabe in the Civil War Drawings file 1863. ... More

The Unreturning braves - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Slocum's Artillery engaged with the enemy on the Charles City Road. (S...

Troops preparing for battle - infantry lying on ground in foreground, caissons and cannons in background. Wounded being carried off field. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed above image: these six guns were ... More

Slocum's Artillery engaged with the enemy on the Charles City Road. (S...

Troops preparing for battle - infantry lying on ground in foreground, caissons and cannons in background. Wounded being carried off field. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed above image: these six guns were ... More

After the Battle of Gravelotte--Sisters of Mercy arriving on the battl...

Title also in German. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old man dead on his porch near the Rapidan-- house burned--1863

Title inscribed on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.569) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[The shattered remains of Russian heroes who were killed near 203 Metr...

H63420 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7728.

Rebel advance through the smoke, and seizure of a part of the breastwo...

Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: between 4 and 5 PM 9th May '64. Inscribed on verso: One rebel color bearer stood up on the log with his flag. how much farther he got... More

Union (i.e. Confederate) dead at Gettysburg

Stereograph showing two rows of dead Confederate soldiers gathered for burial at the southwestern edge of the Rose Woods in Gettysburg, July 5, 1863. No. 245. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

Battle of Winchester - Public domain scan / drawing

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed upper left: Mansion on Berryville pike. Inscribed above image: Winchester. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 15, 1864, pp. 660, as: Earl... More

[Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, vicinity. Body of another Confede...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.

Laid out for burial at Antietam

Alternate title devised by Milhollen and Mugridge from the corresponding negative. Copyright 1862 by Gardner & Gibson. Hand written on verso: William Pinkerton. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (... More

[Antietam, Md. Bodies of Confederate dead gathered for burial]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

[Attack on Fredericksburg] - An old picture of a village with a horse ...

Union troops landing on shore of river, pulling up pontoon bridges and maneuvering in foreground; buildings burning in background. Title devised. Published in: Evert A. Duyckinck, National History of the war fo... More

View on battle field of Antietam where Sumner's Corps charged the enem...

Stereograph showing devastation after the battle with dead soldiers on the battlefield and a wagon in the background.

Skirmish between the Brooklyn 14th and 300 Rebel Cavalry [sic]

Drawing shows a scene that apparently didn't happen. The Brooklyn 14th did not fight in areas where there was Confederate cavalry. (Source: Antietam, by the editors of Time-Life Books, 1996, p. 69) Inscribed on... More

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Body of Confederate sharpshooter

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Caricature, A Good month's business, public domain cartoon image

Caricature of two devils, one of them being Kaiser Wilhelm II, looking at a monthly report of murders. Barron Collier patriotic series No. 2. Exhibited: "World War I and American Art" at the Pennsylvania Acade... More

Battle of New Orleans and death of Major General Packenham [sic] on th...

Print shows the Battle of New Orleans from the British perspective, as British forces advance upon the earthworks or barricades from which the American forces, under the command of Andrew Jackson, repel the att... More

View on battle-field of Antietam

Photograph shows four Union soldiers looking at dead Confederate soldiers on Miller Farm, looking toward the west woods on September 19, 1862.

[Antietam, Md. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing used as a...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

Capture of four 20 lb Parrotts at Deep Bottom by Gen Miles

Inscribed below image: William Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below title: see daily papers this is called the fight at Strawberry Plains. Inscribed upper right: When our men charged the Gunners fl... More

Paul Revere - [Four coffins of men killed in the Boston Massacre]

Print shows section of newspaper column with illustration of four coffins bearing skull and crossbones and the initials of those killed: Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Crispus Attucks. Illus... More

Spare cartridges - Public domain drawing

A soldier taking cartridge pouch from dead soldier; others shooting in background. (Probably drawn after war-time pencil sketch, for postwar illustrated publication.) Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.6... More

[Wounded being carried away] - Public domain drawing

Titled devised, based on information in Century Magazine. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.25) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Nursing wounded near Berlin - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Photograph shows nurses with wounded soldiers outside a building near Berlin, Germany during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

"Help!" - World War I poster - Drawing. Public domain image.

Red Cross recruitment poster showing a Red Cross nurse dragging a wounded soldier from the battlefield.

Mitbürger! Sammelt leere Mineralwasserflaschen

Poster shows a Red Cross nurse giving a wounded soldier a glass of water. Text asks people to collect empty mineral water bottles and donate them to the Red Cross.

Emblemas de la libertad y de la humanidad La Cruz Roja, Madre de todas...

Poster showing two Red Cross nurses, one, a Madonna figure, cradling in her arms a wounded soldier(?) on a litter, between the flags of Nicaragua and the United States.

Emblems of liberty and humanity The Red Cross, mother of all nations.

Poster showing two Red Cross nurses, one, a Madonna figure, cradling in her arms a wounded soldier(?) on a litter, between the flags of China and the United States. Text also in Chinese.

'Pro Patria' - Le bon evêque de Meaux

The bishop of Meaux with nurses and a member of the clergy, welcoming some wounded soldiers.

For the French Red Cross. Please help. July 14. France's day, in aid o...

Poster showing a Red Cross nurse with arms extended, as others tend to wounded soldiers, under the flags of France and the Red Cross.

U.S. Army doctor & wounded in France

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

Wounded Russian prisoners, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows wounded Russian prisoners being carried in a horse-drawn cart through a street during World War I. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grant... More

The horror of war, ghastly glimpse of Belgian wounded, Antwerp hospita...

Nurse attending badly-wounded man. J203015 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 11839. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Nurs... More

Emprunt de la Défense Nationale - eux aussi! Font leur devoir

Wounded soldier in foreground. Civilians in line at a cashier's window in background. The National Defense Loan was the first defense loan of the war. This loan realized 13 million francs. Translation of tit... More

"Our Dumb Friends' League." A society for the encouragement of kindnes...

Poster showing a wounded horse on the battlefield. Donations immediately to - Arthur J. Coke, Secretary, 58, Victoria Street, London, S.W.

[Theresa Quinlan - 14 years old April 14th - Spooler. Hand cut in Iron...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Case of Frank Wiegel, 3916 - # Ave., Brooklyn N.Y., injured after work...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Taking wounded off the hospital ship "Solace"

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: International Film Service. Group Title: Hospital (Ship) Date based on date of negative... More

Help the Red Cross / Herman Roeg.

Poster showing a Red Cross nurse holding a wounded soldier as she signals for help. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Dressing a wound. Surgical Dressings Committee

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Miss Carita Spencer. Group title: Hospitals. Gift; American National Red Cross 19... More