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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Interior of Fort Darling. (Magazines, bomb-p...

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[Fort Pulaski, Ga. Interior view of the breach]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862.

[Fort Pulaski, Ga. Interior view of the breach]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862.

Charleston, South Carolina. Beacon on parapet of Fort Sumter

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Fort Pulaski, Georgia. The "Jeff Davis" gun

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[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Sherman's troops removing ammunition from Fo...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman at the sea, December 1864. After marching through Georgia for a month, Sherman stormed Fort McAllister on December 13, 1864 and captured Sava... More

[Charleston, S.C. Mounted gun, parapet of Fort Moultrie]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

U.S. gunboat Fort Hindman - Mississippi River Fleet

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, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter

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[District of Columbia. Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort L...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Shows 27 African Americans in two lines with rifles resting on the ground.

[John B. Gallie gun, Fort McAllister, GA]

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Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Fort Brady on the James River, m...

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Battle of Fort Donelson - Public domain music sheet scan

Charleston, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter

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Parapet, Fort Sumter, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows damaged gabions on the parapet of Fort Sumter. Photographer Samuel Cooley sets up his camera in the distance. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3053. Forms part of: Visual materials from t... More

[Charleston, S.C. Mortars inside Fort Moultrie]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

View of large rebel fort east of W. & A. R.R. Potter's House in the ri...

Photograph shows war damaged chevaux-de-frise in a former Confederate fort near the Western & Atlantic railroad. Inscribed on item: 110. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.

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

C.S. soldier killed by a shell in the trenches of "Fort Hell" (i.e. "F...

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier lying at the bottom of a trench at Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia.

9th Corps attacking Ft. Mahone better known as Fort Damnation

Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: It was not daylight; but a good many dead and wounded. Men rushing over the enemies line. Inscribed vertically right margin: cheveaux... More

For Ft. Fisher direct. The Expedition leaving the Chesapeake

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, December 31, 1864. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.534) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform next to draped table in front o...

Frame:Thermoplastic scroll frame. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, W... More

[Centreville, Virginia The principal fort] - 19th century Virginia.

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862.

Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Fort Brady on the James River, m...

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View of Fort Clifton showing the Water Battery and obstructions in the...

Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below title: sketched from Battery B 2nd U.S. regulars (colored). Inscribed above image : (sketch 3); obstructions in the river sunk by the rebels; Water Battery of Clifton... More

Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee ...

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View in Fort Moultrie, 1861 [i.e. 1860]

Photograph shows an interior view of Fort Moultrie in August 1860 eight months before the bombardment in April 1861. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Inscribed on verso: No. 11. Attributed to... More

[Norfolk, Virginia Steamer U.S.S. Fort Donelson (former Confederate bl...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). View of Fort Moultrie

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Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). [Interior of Fort Putnam on Mor...

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[Centreville, Virginia Fort on the heights, with Quaker guns]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862.

[Fort Pulaski, Ga. The "Beauregard" gun]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862.

Exterior of sally port, Fort Moultrie, outside, March 1865

Photograph shows a guard standing at the war damaged sally port from outside of Fort Moultrie, on Sullivans Island. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.

Fort Monroe, Virginia. Wharf - 19th century Virginia.

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Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort McAllister

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[Petersburg, Virginia Federal line near Fort Morton]

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

A general view of Ft. McAllister, GA.

Photograph shows the interior fortifications of Fort McAllister after General Sherman's march through Georgia. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Date and photographer based on variant image in... More

Spot near fort Damnation where the 9th Corps charged and afterwords ca...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: Sketch A. the Frize [sic] and Abattis was placed in the night after the fight. Inscribed lower left above title: This bank enem... More

Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter

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Fort Moultrie, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows and interior view of Fort Moultrie taken after the bombardment in April 1861. Photographers returned to the same spot in the fort that they had photographed in LOT 15015-1, no. 20.

Outside view, Fort Sumter, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows two men seated on rocks amidst the debris of the south western exterior of Fort Sumter. One man leans on a cannon below the chevaux-de-frise. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3049. Forms ... More

Bay Point, South Carolina. Fort Beauregard

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Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), James Island in the distance

Stereograph showing gabions used as reinforcements and other debris inside Fort Sumter. No. 340, part of series: War Views. Copyright 1865 by John P. Soule. Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on LOT 13461,... More

[Fort Fisher, N.C. View of the land front, showing destroyed gun carri...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Fort Fisher, N.C., January 1865.

Quarters of men in Fort Sedgwick Generally known as Fort Hell / / nega...

View of above ground portion of underground shelters at Fort Sedgwick, outside Petersburg, Virginia. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Sol... More

Ft. Nassau. Warship photograph collection

Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-99. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1026) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

James River, Virginia. Fortifications to the right, Fort Brady

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View of Winchester, Virginia, from fort on the hill N.E. of the town /...

Title continues: Breastwork in foreground. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.21) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Interior of Fort Wagner, April, 1865

Photograph shows Union soldiers in parade formation inside Fort Wagner. No. 4974. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Views in Charleston Harbor, S.C. Photograph is half of a stereograph ... More

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Interior of Fort Putnam on Morr...

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Charleston, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter

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Fort Fisher Expedition in Hampton Roads, Virginia

No. 836. Alternate title, 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, c2003. Photogra... More

Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Columbiad gun in Fort Darling on James

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Steamer Louisiana now running between Baltimore & Fort Monroe

Broadside view of steamship under weigh. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.459) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file P. Forms part of: Morgan collectio... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Bomb-proof quarters, Fort Sedgwick ("Fort Hell")...

Photo shows graffiti on one of the planks over the door: "Lieut. W.B. Lapham, Maine Battery ... 9th Army Corps" (Source: Robert Maresz, 2013) Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Peters... More

Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers of 4th New York heavy Artillery loading ...

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[Arlington, Virginia Guns and gun-crews of Fort Richardson]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Photograph of 1st Connecticut Artillery drilling at Fort Richardson.

[Charleston, S.C. Palmetto reinforcements on the channel side of Fort ...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Guerritte, a fort or small tower of stone or wood, on the point of a b...

Print shows a guérite on the corner of a fort. Illus. in: A new military, historical, and explanatory dictionary ... / Thomas Simes. Philadelphia : Sold by Humphreys, Bell, and Aitken, 1776. Published in: The ... More

Fort Brady, James River, showing part of battery

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Fort Burnham (previously Confederate Fort Harrison)

No. B171. 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

Fort Mahone (Confederate), Confederate States of America.

No. 712. Mounted with five other photographs under the general title: Views on the Petersburg Lines. Forms part of: Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection).

Confederate flag flying. Ft. Sumter after the evacuation of Maj. Ande...

Photograph shows the Confederate flag flying at Fort Sumter, on April 15, 1861, following the surrender of Major Anderson and his Union troops, documenting the beginning of the Civil War; troops prepare to load... More

[Fort Sumter], American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

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Sally port, Fort Monroe, Virginia - A black and white photo of people ...

Photograph shows Union guards among a group of men at the entrance to the fort.

[Nashville, Tenn., from Fort Negley looking northeast]

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Interior view of Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor (i. e. Sullivan's Is...

Stereograph showing a view of the interior of the fort looking through the sallyport. Ammunition is stacked against the walls.

The pulpit, Fort Fisher, N.C. / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive ...

Photograph showing a group of military personnel at the barricade inside Fort Fisher, North Carolina, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander... More

Arlington, Virginia. Officers' of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort ...

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Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Battery Lamb on sea front

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Fort Darling, James River, Virginia. Officers of 1st Connecticut Heavy...

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

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Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior, American Civil War Glass Negative.

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The light house of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor, S.C....

Stereograph showing a beacon tower above the gabion reinforced entrance to a bombproof construction on the parapet of Fort Sumter. A cannon is nearby. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History... More

View of the east face of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor...

Stereograph showing destroyed exterior brick wall of Fort Sumter. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Handwritten on verso: Miller, vol. V, p. 122. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony ... More

Fort Anderson. Fort Anderson, Paducah, Kentucky, and the camp of the 6...

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Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Interior of Fort Darling. (Magazines, bomb-p...

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Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Battery Abbot, Fort Brady. (Batt...

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[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Confederate gun at Fort McAllister]

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman at the sea, December 1864. After marching through Georgia for a month, Sherman stormed Fort McAllister on December 13, 1864 and captured Sava... More

[Fort Brady, Virginia Three officers of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Arti...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Photograph of three officers, Company C, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery.

Fort Sherman, Chattanooga, Tennessee during American Civil War

Photograph shows view of the fort with Lookout Mountain in the distance.

Charleston, South Carolina. Exterior view of Fort Sumter

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Fort Morgan, Alabama. Ruins of fort. Looking south-west

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Fort Morgan, Alabama. Ruins of fort. Looking south-west

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The Capture of Fort Donelson. Charles Grobe

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Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). Fortifications in front of Fort McAllist...

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Old Sea coast howitzer, Ft. Wagner. Whitworth gun, Charleston

Title inscribed upper left and right margin. Faint sketch of shipwreck on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-83. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1010) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior view, showing traverse with dismounted gun...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Fort Fisher, N.C., January 1865.

Sea face of Fort Sumter--looking north, Charleston Harbor

Photograph shows a damaged cannon amidst the debris outside of Fort Sumter after the bombardment. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). From series: "War Views, no. 213." See also: LC-B811-3125. F... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter

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Capture of Fort Harrison on the Chaffins Farm line of Works

Measured grid drawn in pencil over image to aid engravers. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed lower left: Troops in column of Division; The Brushwood nearly breast-high. Inscribed lower right: Troops formed ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and infantry slouch hat with ba...

Case: Thermoplastic frame with scroll and rope pattern. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljunion

English Armstrong gun in Fort Fisher, N.C.

Stereograph showing a Confederate soldier in the battery with an English Armstrong gun. Three men stand behind him. No. 1234. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Attribu... More

[Fort Harrison, Virginia Group of surgeons of the Army of the James]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Surgeon C. C. Radmore, 114th U.S.C.T.; Surgeon J. F. Stevenson, 29th Connecticut; Assist. Surgeon J. M. Rand, 29th C... More

[Morris Island, S.C. Interior view of Fort Putnam]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Putnam. (...

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[Charleston, S.C. Mortars inside Fort Moultrie]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Fort Brady, James River, Virginia near Dutch Gap Canal

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

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Fort Johnson, James Island, sho...

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