military life

Looking towards Balaclava, Turkish camp in the distance to the right

Military personnel, some on horseback, at encampment on the plateau of Sevastopolʹ. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton, photographer of the 1850s. Photo marked for cropping with ve... More

Ismail Pacha on horseback, with Turkish officers - Roger Fenton's Crim...

Ismail Pacha (General Kmety), full-length portrait, seated on horse, facing left, with three attendants in the foreground and one in the background. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Ea... More

[Burial of Union soldier at Camp Griffin, Langley, Virginia]

Attribution of G.H. Houghton as photographer from "A very fine appearance" : the Vermont Civil War photographs of George Houghton / Donald H. Wickman. Barre : Vermont Historical Society, c2010, page 33. Title d... More

The twelfth regiment "laying off" in the Navy Yard barracks at Washing...

Stereograph showing soldiers from the 12th regiment relaxing in the barracks, most out of uniform and some sitting on their bunks. No. 826. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Camp of 31st Pennsylvania Infantry near Washington, D.C.

Woman with sleeves rolled up holding basket, posed in front of tent with a soldier (possibly her husband) and three children, other soldiers in the background. Civil War Photographs collection. Published in: Am... More

Young lady's call on outpost, Alabama

(from back and front of sheet). Code on mat (source unverified): II-45. Forms part of the Adolph Metzner American Civil War Collection at the Library of Congress. Purchase; E. Burns Apfeld; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014... More

War-zone home for our boys "over there"--Always at the service of our ...

Poster showing soldiers entering a Y.M.C.A. canteen, and an interior scene of men reading and listening to records. National War Work Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States. Form... More

Welcome soldiers sailors marines Your uniform is your pass--We can tel...

Poster showing a man in colonial garb welcoming servicemen to New York City. Text continues: Apply at any Service Club, or 49-55 West 27th Street, New York War Camp Community Service, [telephone] Farragut 6247.... More

Fighting in France for Freedom! Are you helping at home?

Poster showing civilian detainees, accused of failure to carry registration cards, standing in a truck.

Diversion on board a troopship bound for the Middle East Picture shows...

British Official photo: BF 244. No. BO 772. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

A company officer of the 442nd Combat Team makes corrections in the sa...

Photograph by Bureau of Public Relations, U.S. War Department. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Halt of Wilcox's Troops in Caroline street prevous[sic] to going in to...

Troops lounging on furniture and debris in foreground, battered dwellings in background. Title inscribed above image. Inscribed above image: Battle field; smoke from Battle field. Published in: New York Illustr... More

[Camp sentry, Rappahannock Station, Virginia] during American Civil Wa...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.249) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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California and Idaho troops in churchyard at San Pedro Macati

No. 759. Copyrighted by Perley Fremont Rockett of San Francisco in 1899.

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[Bealeton, Virginia Noncommissioned officers' mess of Co. D, 93d New Y...

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

[Portrait photographs of soldiers and servants from various Union head...

Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 359, no. 444, no. 349, no. 428, no. 366, and no. 387. Exhibit loan 4116-L.

[Five unidentified soldiers of the 63rd New York Infantry Regiment in ...

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljpaper

[Alexandria, Virginia Cooks in the kitchen of Soldiers' Rest]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of Alexandria, Va. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Articles, undated

Chaplain Chapman of the 169th N.Y. performing divine service at Genera...

Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below image with arrow indicators: Gen Burnham; Gen Neil; Gen Smith; Gen Martindale. Inscribed on verso: The Service was arranged by Dr Luckley, Medical Director of the 18t... More

Camp-fire song - Public domain music sheet scan

Our kitchen near Beverly Ford - Public domain scan / drawing

African American cook at table in outdoor kitchen. "The camp kitchen and cook near Beverly Ford, Va" on mat. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.95) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

"Confederate camp" during the late American war

Print shows encampment of Confederate soldiers, including three slaves(?). B9019 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1871 by Louis Zimmer. After a painting by C. W. Chapman, Ordance Sergeant, 59th Virginia Regime... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Sutler's tent, 2d Division, 9th Corps]

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

Russische grenzsoldaten in Sonntagsstimmung

Print shows six Russian border guards and one woman in dance poses with one border guard playing accordion. Forms part of: Winokur-Munblit Collection of the Russian Empire Postcards (Library of Congress). Purc... More

Returned prisoners of war exchanging their rags for new clothing on bo...

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed below title: The figures on the right are coming in with the new clothing, in the centre pitching the old rags overboard, & going out on the left to get their rations. See Ne... More

[Fredericksburg, Virginia Cooking tent of the U.S. Sanitary Commission...

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

Going into bivouac at night / Edwin Forbes.

"Going into camp at night. The fields on all sides are covered with troops cooking supper, and column of troops in the road marching on and disappearing over the hill in the distance" on mount. Part of "Life st... More

Colonel Graham's 5th Excelsior reg. U.S.V. Shelled while being reviewe...

Signed lower right: Alf R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed in image near right margin: Gen. Sickles White horse. Text on verso reads: "No. III 14". Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP1919:R1.2.0172). R... More

What do I want, John Henry? / Alex. Gardner, photographer.

White soldier sitting facing young black servant, who is holding bottle and cake(?), with two other soldiers sitting and one standing in front of two tents. One of the soldiers is Brevet Major J.R. Coxe, who w... More

The 71st reg. N.Y. at Alexandria

Soldiers resting in front of buildings. Signed above title lower left: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image: This regt. went over today without camp equipage. The 71st N.Y. wore Cardigan ... More

Home Insurance Company, cash assets $6,000,000, January / Kronheim & C...

Print on recto shows calendar from the Home Insurance Company almanac, January 1876, with illustration of George Washington visiting soldiers at Valley Forge; description of illustration on verso. Picture capt... More

Gen Butlers Head Quarters--Army of the James

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed within image: Gen Butlers Tent. Inscribed below title on verso: The Gen'ls Tent is the last one on the left, the House is used for the Adjutant Gen's Telegraph & other office... More

Quiet day in the "Mortar Battery" - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photogr...

Four soldiers relaxing in a mortar battery. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crim... More

General Patricks punishment for gamblers

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 7, 1863, p. 717 as : The Army of the Potomac-Gamblers at the Provost Marshal's Headquarters. Gift, J.P. Morgan... More

Scene in the camp of the Washington Greys. 8th N.Y.S.M.

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.364) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Sketchbooks, 1863-1887, undated; Nos. ...

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Sketchbooks, 1863-1887, undated; Unnum...

Military life in Italy.

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Coffee all out and no where to straggle to

Title inscribed left margin. Inscribed right margin: The Veteran Coffee boiler Now they are going to have another fight I ain't spoiling for a fight But I don't see any help for it, I've boiled coffee till I ha... More

A street contrast - Public domain print

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.19) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

War views -- Army of the Potomac -- the way they cook dinner in camp

Photograph shows five Union soldiers, including one African American soldier, sitting and eating in front of tents. No. 2057. Photographer's name from same photograph in New York Public Library Digital Collect... More

Camp of General Alexander McDowell McCook near Stevenson, Alabama, sum...

Title from Blood shed in this war by M. Peake. Title on mat (source unverified): Headquarter in the field camp of Gen. McDowell McCook near Stevenson, Alabama, Summer 1862. "N.42" upper left corner of sheet. C... More

Three unidentified soldiers eating at table outside tent as an African...

Printed on recto: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purch... More

The operations near Washington--scene of the fight in front of Fort St...

Illustration showing soldiers behind low wooden barricades; the remains of a building burned to the ground; and the smoke from cannon fire in the background. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v.... More

The successful hunters. Camp on Oak Creek, Arizona

Soldiers with three deer hanging on tree. Mearns Collection. No. 220.

The moral of the canteen question / Dalrymple.

Illustration shows Puck, at center, looking at both sides of the issue; on the left, "The result of abolishing the canteen" shows soldiers drunk on whiskey, in a stupor, and engaged in a barroom brawl; on the r... More

Poster - 3 A.M. in a London station hut - Public domain lithograph

Poster showing a YMCA facility for soldiers, with men sleeping on couches, in chairs, and on the floor. Illustration is by Edgar Wright.

Men from front lined up to turn in their clothing for replacement and ...

No. 888-G8. In album: Photographic supplement to historical record of quartermaster corps activities A.E.F. Vol. 19-A, p. 69.

Army Training School for Chaplains and approved chaplain candidates, C...

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The camp library is yours - Read to win the war / F.

Poster showing a soldier reading. Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": Charles Buckles Falls Promotes Literacy. U.S. military officials, concerned by low literacy rates, even among native-born American... More

Jeff Davis House. Genl. Ords headquarters

Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: 4 + 6. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.325) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

[Portrait photographs of soldiers and servants from various Union head...

Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 359, no. 444, no. 349, no. 428, no. 366, and no. 387. Exhibit loan 4116-L.

8th N.J.V. Camp near Matawoman [sic] Creek on the Potomac Charles Co. ...

Soldiers chopping wood and transporting branches log cabins covered with canvas, soldiers in winter camp. Title inscribed lower left. Date inscribed lower right. Published in: New York Illustrated News, 5 April... More

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Released Prisoners - The dance upon the deck of the N.Y.

Harper's article assigned this scene to the deck of the Confederate "Star of the South". Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed below title on verso: to be returned to A.R. Waud. Reference print available in Civil... More

View of Gen Stannards Head Quarters

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed below title on verso: This is one of the most delightful places in the Army although it is only a few hundred yards from the enemies front and a considerable distance in adva... More

Czar samples food of Russian soldiers

Photomechanical print shows Czar Nicholas II in eating with soldiers and a cook as Grand Duke Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich of Russia stands to the side. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, New York. On verso: addressed... More

The soldiers sharing rations, Confederate States of America

Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed on verso: The rebel soldiers were entirely without food and our men shared coffee and rations with them. Dated from historical sources. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919... More

An incident of the War, Confederate States of America.

Officer hands a paper to a soldier holding a newspaper and seated by a fire, while two other soldiers look on. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed within image as indicator: Rebel Pickets. Inscribed on newspa... More

Camp of Hawkins Zouaves. Newport News. 1861

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.594) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Camp of Hawkins Zouaves. Newport News. 1861

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.594) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

War views. No. 2404 or 2406, Tent life of the 31st Pennsylvania Regime...

Stereograph shows a Union soldier holding a large saw, standing between a woman holding a large basket and a young woman sitting on a chair with two small children, in front of a tent, with other soldiers and a... More

Cooking house, 8th Hussars - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Soldiers standing and sitting around cooking pots as a cook ladels food into a bowl; in the background stands a woman and on the left is the side of Fenton's photographic van. Title transcribed from verso. Phot... More

Coffee coolers - Public domain scan / drawing

Part of "Life studies of the great army." Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.306) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Newspapers in camp - Public domain document scan of drawing

Part of "Life studies of the great army." Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.322) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Negro Church, Smith's Plantation, Port Royal Isl'd, S.C.

Title inscribed lower left. Several sketches on verso of sheep, pigs, birds, etc., with inscription: Winchester Va. Inscribed in blue ink on verso: This sketch was taken near Charlest[on] [...] the camp of the ... More

The 71st reg. N.Y. at Alexandria

Soldiers resting in front of buildings. Signed above title lower left: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image: This regt. went over today without camp equipage. The 71st N.Y. wore Cardigan ... More

Entrance Hall of Mr Chas. Green's house, Savannah Ga, now occupied as ...

Title inscribed on verso. Published in: Harper's Weekly, January 21, 1865, p. 40. Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings File K. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2) Forms part of: Morgan c... More

[Soldiers waving caps at a woman]

Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.602) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Camp scene at Fort Monroe. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope C...

Stereograph shows the 5th New York Infantry Regiment (Duryée's Zouaves), at ease with their rifles, Fort Monroe, Virginia. Attributed to George Stacy. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereograph... More

Harpers Ferry by moonlight - Public domain scan / drawing

Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image: Maryland heights; Potomac river; Loundoun hights [sic]; Bolivar heights; Dec 1863. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0512) Re... More

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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A breakdown in the wagoner's camp

Two African American men dancing as other men watch. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.136) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Duryea's Zouaves. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope Card.

Stereograph shows the 5th New York Infantry Regiment (Duryée's Zouaves), at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Card number: "No. 166." Gottheim collection code: GCW 14. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stere... More

A watched pot never boils ; A tasty supper ; Drummer boys ; Played out...

Four vignettes showing army life at periods of rest. In the first, a young African American soldier has fallen asleep next to pot which has fallen off the campfire ; the second shows a group of men seated aroun... More

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. Duc de Chartres, Comte de Paris, Prince...

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

Sutler cart. at Baileys Cross roads

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Sketch of men playing large brass musical instruments on verso. Published in: New York Illustrated News, December 2, 1861, p. 74. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1... More

Preparing the mess. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Stereograph showing four Union soldiers preparing the camp meal on a makeshift table. Photograph attributed to Mathew Brady according to: The world of Mathew Brady : portraits of the Civil War period by Roy Mer... More

Military life in Italy.

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Military life in Italy.

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Captain Brown, 4th Light Dragoons & servant, winter dress - Roger Fent...

Captain Brown, seated, and servant, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing winter uniforms, with tents in background. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger F... More

[Figure wrapped in blanket sitting on a barrel and reading]

Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-161. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.925) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Camp Griffin 1861 - Public domain scan /

Photograph shows Union soldiers and men, probably photographers including G.H. or Don Houghton, in front of shed labeled "Picture Gallery" and tent at Camp Griffin, Langley, Virginia. Attribution of G.H. Hought... More