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Capt. James S. West, C.S.A. (Cavalry)

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Colonel R.B. Lawton, 1st R.I. Cavalry

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Colonel Percy Wyndham, 1st N.J. Cavalry

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Colonel Henry Ashby, 2nd Regt. Tenn. Cavalry

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Generals of the Cavalry Corps.. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Portrait photograph shows from left, Major General Philip Sheridan, Col. James William Forsyth, Chief of Staff Merritt, Brig. General Thomas C. Devin, Major General George Armstrong Custer. Hand written on ver... More

33d New York Infantry. American Civil War 1861-1865.

No. 1042. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[Unidentified soldier in Union cavalry uniform with Colt Dragoon revol...

Case: Berg, no. 1-188; vintage mat provided by donor. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). NewsetLilj01 p... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Company F hat and upside d...

Case: Leather; geometric design; vintage case, brass mat, and preserver supplied by donor. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs ... More

[Private George H. Hall of Kane County Illinois Cavalry Company and Co...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Manuscript describes details of Hall's military service; recipe for chemical solution on verso. Case: Leather; geometric. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Fo... More

Winfield Scott, Lieut. General of U.S. Army designed & drawn on stone ...

Full-length portrait shows Winfield Scott in full uniform, riding a horse and waving his hat. After serving as general in chief of the U.S. Army at the start of the Civil War, Scott ended his long military care... More

[Unidentified cavalry officer in Union uniform with sword]

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Appomattox Court House, Virginia. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph shows Federal troops with rifles in front of the court house. Two children stand on the fence. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 9, p. 127". Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; ... More

Major General G. K. Warren and staff

No. B52. 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 an... More

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B933. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Ninth Massachusetts Infantry Camp near Washington, D.C., 1861

No. 8142. Mounted with one other photograph. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Rebel cavalry driving captured horses through, while still smoking Emm...

Study for street scene at Emmitsburg, MD. Title inscribed above and below image. Formerly Waud no. B-88. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.852) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Falmouth, Virginia. Colonel Graham and group

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Outer line of Confederate fortifications, in front of Petersburg, Virg...

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Headquarters Army of Potomac - Brandy Station, Virginia, April 1864

No. 4166. Caption continues: This is left half of a panoramic view of which no. 327 is the right half. Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C... More

[Brandy Station], [Virginia]. Alfred R. Waud, artist for "Harper's Wee...

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U.S. Army horse stunts, B Troop, 15th U.S. Cavalry, Frostburg, Md., 19...

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6th U.S. Cav., Ft. Des Moines, Ia., April 30th, 1910

All men posed on horseback. J141110 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; F. J. Bandholtz; May 4, 1910. Copyright claimant's address: Des Moines, Ia.

FOSTER, VICTOR S. LT. 15TH CAV., U.S.A., AT FORT MYER, ON 'ACE OF DIAM...

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CAVALRY REVIEW BY PRESIDENT WILSON. IN REVIEWING STAND: SEC. WILSON; G...

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CAVALRY REVIEW BY PRESIDENT WILSON. CAVALRY IN MANEUVERS

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Cavalry camp, Winchester, Virginia, 1913

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Cavalry troop, Ft. Myer, [Arlington, Virginia], 6/24/14

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Cavalry troop, Ft. Myer, [Arlington, Virginia], 6/24/14

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Statues and sculpture. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson statue

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Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information archive

Annotation on original negative jacket. This image in a jacket marked "Killed" To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have tit... More

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of a mechanized cavalry rec...

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A group of people riding horses down a street. Office of War Informati...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldier of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance uni...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Shoeing a horse while in bivouac during a field pr...

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers of a cavalry machine gun platoon going ov...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Leading a pack horse carrying a machine gun during...

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Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Alabama, was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and n... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate second lieutenant cavalry uniform...

Photograph shows hand-colored gold piping indicating cavalry. Case: (front) Berg, no. 3-188; (back) Berg, no. 1-55. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:1... More

Chasing the Rebs through Strasburg

Signed lower left: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0440) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil Wa... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and slouch cap sitting with hol...

Case: Leather floral motif. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Fami... More

1st Maine Cavalry Skirmishing - Public domain drawing

Signed lower right: ALF. R. Waud. Title inscribed on sheet. Published in: Harper's Weekly, September 5, 1863, p. 572. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.259) Reference print available in the Civil War Dr... More

[Culpeper, Virginia General Judson Kilpatrick of the 3d Division, Cava...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863.

[Fair Oaks, Virginia Lt. James B. Washington, a Confederate prisoner, ...

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

N.Y. Artilleryillery group. American Civil War 1861-1865.

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

General Grant's Cavalry escort, City Point, Virginia, March, 1865

Portrait shows five buglers standing at left. No. 445. Alternate title and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Cent... More

[Elias Teeple in Union uniform with saber and Smith and Wesson revolve...

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Case: Leather geometric design with circular and leaf motifs. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of C... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union cavalry uniform holding saber]

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[Petersburg, Virginia Officers of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry at Arm...

Unknown; Capt. Edward A. Flint, Capt. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Lt. George H. Teague. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

Gunboats shelling the enemy at the battle of Malvern hill sketched fro...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: General McClellan went aboard while I was sketching to change the position of the gunboats that were shelling our infantry. Gif... More

[Chattanooga, Tenn., vicinity. Federal camp by the Tennessee River]

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of the Battle of Chattanooga, September-November 1863. After Rosecrans' debacle at Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863, Bragg's army occupied the mountai... More

Ammunition train 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps

Line of horsedrawn covered wagons marked "Ammunition" at Cole's Hill and Stevensburg Heights, south of Brandy Station, Virginia. No. 640. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic ... More

[Bull Run, Virginia Federal cavalry at Sudley Ford]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, First Bull Run, July 1861.

[Chattanooga, Tenn. Boxcars and depot with Federal cavalry guard beyon...

[Prospect Hill, Virginia General view of 13th New York Cavalry camp]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington.

[Colonel Burnside's brigade at Bull Run]

Title devised from N.Y. Illustrated News. Published in: New York Illustrated News, August 5, 1861, pp. 216-217, with caption: Colonel Burnside's brigade, First and Second Rhode Island, and Seventy-first New Yor... More

[Colonel Burnside's brigade at Bull Run]

[Buffalo Soldier, 9th Cavalry, Company D, sharpshooter collar insignia...

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of an African American soldier, standing next to chair, his hat is on the seat of the chair. Title derived from Gladstone collection checklist. Gladstone's inventory code... More

[Ulysses S. Grant and his Generals on horseback] / Lith. by E. Boell.

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[Fort Burnham, Virginia, vicinity. Camp of the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalr...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865.

Cavalryman escort, Culpeper / EF.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.168) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt of the "Rough Riders" - after his return from ...

Stereograph showing portrait of Roosevelt on horseback. Modern copy print from original stereograph filed in: STEREO PRES FILE.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt of the "Rough Riders" - after his return from ...

Stereograph showing portrait of Roosevelt on horseback. Modern copy print from original stereograph filed in: STEREO PRES FILE.

Washington, District of Columbia. The grand review of the Army. Genera...

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[Unidentified soldier in Union cavalry uniform and shoulder scales wit...

Photograph shows cavalry insignia on top of forage cap. Not in case. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collect... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Detachment of 3d Indiana Cavalry]

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

[Sergeant B. F. Smith of Company B, 52nd Virginia Infantry Regiment, a...

Photo shows identified soldier in Confederate uniform. Additional information in collections file. Not in case. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).... More

The battle of Gettysburg - A painting of a military battle with men on...

Print showing Union troops advancing from the right during fighting at the battle of Gettysburg. Caption continues: Respectfully dedicated to the Soldiers of the United States. Entered according to Act of Cong... More

Kautz's Cavalry coming back to camp in Gen Butlers lines after their r...

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed below title: more figures can be shewn[sic]. Inscribed lower left : Front P[age?]. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 6, 1864, p. 508. Reference print available in the ... More

[The 1st Virginia Cavalry at a halt]

Title devised. Published in: Harper's Weekly, September 27, 1862, p. 612. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.764) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file E. Reference print available i... More

Officers of 5th U.S. Cavalry near Washington, D.C., June, 1865

No. 4551. 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

Gen'l (i.e. General) Joe Hooker on horse, Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg...

Photograph shows a portrait of Major general Joseph Hooker in uniform seated on a horse in front of a tent in Petersburg, Virginia. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Photographer and publicati... More

[Unidentified African American soldier, 9th cavalry, full-length portr...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption from Gladstone collection checklist. Date from checklist. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M103. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.305).... More

The Army of the Potomac--The Blue Ridge from Genl. Shalers headquarter...

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Capt. R.G. Prendergast, 1st New York Cavalry

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Colonel A.T. McReynolds, 1st NY Cavalry

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John F. Farnsworth 8th Ill. Cavalry

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[Portrait of Corp. Nailer, 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry, U.S.A.]

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[Portrait of Pvt. Charles H. Halstead, Company A, 52nd Illinois Infant...

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Maj. General George H. Thomas - A man riding a white horse next to a l...

No. 5866. 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

General George H. Thomas (?) and staff

Title devised by Library staff based on information received from Mike Serpa, January 2016. Formerly identified as General George H. Thomas (?) and staff.

[Lieutenant Hiram L. Hendley of Co. A, 9th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion...

Portrait photograph of identified soldier set in brooch. Case: plain leather. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Bill Adams, Roberta, Georgia, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Fam... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and hat with cavalry insignia]

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2d Rhode Island Infantry. American Civil War 1861-1865.

No. 991. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[Photograph of Walter G. Jones, Pvt., 8th New York Cavalry, Co. C., U....

Information from caption card. Copy photo made by LC in 1961 from unidentified source. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Petersburg, Virginia. Group of 3d Indiana Cavalry, headquarters Army o...

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Petersburg, Virginia. Officers of 1st Massachusetts Cavalry at Army of...

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Hospital Stewards of 2d Division, 9th Army Corps. in front of Petersub...

No. 571. 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 an... More

Winter quarters of a Cavalry Regiment in Army of Potomac near Brandy S...

No. B216. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 4, pg. 36-37". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Prospect Hill, Virginia. Officers of 13th New York Cavalry

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Cavalry horses at Montauk Point

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Last call - 5th U.S. Cavalry, Porto Rico

Four U.S. soldiers behind horses lying on ground. One of the soldiers is blowing a bugle and holding a pistol, and the other three are holding rifles. D12118 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L. Singley. No. 10267.

[Washington taking command of the American army under the old elm at C...

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