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Military Papers - December 26, 1815 - Nov. 30, 1816, Vol. IX

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Military Papers - December 26, 1815 - Nov. 30, 1816, Vol. IX

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Camp Reynolds, Officer's Quarters, Angel Island State Park, Angel Isla...

Significance: Camp Reynolds was established on Angel Island in 1863 to enhance the coastal defenses of San Francisco Bay during the Civil War. In 1866 Camp Reynolds became the army's general depot for receivin... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Significance: Shiloh National Military Park is one of the earliest national battlefield parks. The 3,972 acre park is located in rural Hardin County in southwestern Tennessee. It was established in 1894, makin... More

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Significance: Shiloh National Military Park is one of the earliest national battlefield parks. The 3,972 acre park is located in rural Hardin County in southwestern Tennessee. It was established in 1894, makin... More

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Significance: Shiloh National Military Park is one of the earliest national battlefield parks. The 3,972 acre park is located in rural Hardin County in southwestern Tennessee. It was established in 1894, makin... More

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Significance: Shiloh National Military Park is one of the earliest national battlefield parks. The 3,972 acre park is located in rural Hardin County in southwestern Tennessee. It was established in 1894, makin... More

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from...

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[The entrance gate of the Imperial Military Medical School] / fotoğraf...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 19. In album: The Imperial Military Academy and other military schools, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II ... More

[Winfield Scott, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the le...

General, U.S. Army officer, Commander in chief. Scratched on back of plate: 429. Hallmark: 40 (corner trimmed obscuring hallmark). Identification from a lithograph by Francois d'Avignon, plate 9 in Charles Edwa... More

[ Letter and photograph, W.C. Westmoreland, General, U.S. Army, to Dan...

Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Photograph related to American actor Danny Kaye. Danny Kaye was an American actor, singer, dancer, and come... More

White House Landing, Pamunkey River, Virginia

Variety of steamers and barges along bank of large Federal supply depot above Richmond, 1864-5. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

U. S. Military Academy, Officer's Quarters, West Point, Orange County,...

Significance: This set if quarters is the oldest extant building at the Academy. The house retains much of its original Federal style details and has been the quarters of the academy superintendent since its co... More

U. S. Military Academy, Officer's Quarters, West Point, Orange County,...

Significance: This set if quarters is the oldest extant building at the Academy. The house retains much of its original Federal style details and has been the quarters of the academy superintendent since its co... More

Gulistan Station on the Great Military Railway, at entrance to Kojak T...

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 868. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1... More

U. S. Military Academy, Officer's Quarters, West Point, Orange County,...

Significance: Quarters No. 116 is an example of the highly successful officers' quarters designed for the U. S. Military Academy by the office of Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson. Its character, neo-gothic reflects ... More

U. S. Military Academy, Officer's Quarters, West Point, Orange County,...

Significance: Quarters No. 116 is an example of the highly successful officers' quarters designed for the U. S. Military Academy by the office of Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson. Its character, neo-gothic reflects ... More

[Knoxville, Tenn., vicinity. Military bridge at Strawberry Plains and ...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of the Siege of Knoxville, November-December 1863. The difficult strategic situation of the Federal armies after Chicamauga enabled Bragg to detach a fo... More

U. S. Military Academy, Central Barracks, West Point, Orange County, N...

Significance: The Central Barracks is one of the two surviving structures at the Academy which were designed and erected under the guidance of Major Richard Delafield. These designs were an attempt to form a co... More

[Atlanta, Ga. City Hall; camp of 2d Massachusetts Infantry on the grou...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

[Petersburg, Virginia General Orlando B. Willcox and staff, 3d Divisio...

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

[Military camp near the shore, possibly Morris Island, South Carolina]

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff based on alternate view. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.

[Five Civil War soldiers gathered on dirt porch outside home. African ...

Title devised by library staff. 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 mi... More

Illinois Waterway, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District,...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office was chosen as address location; Illinois Waterway spans from Mississippi River at Grafton, IL to Lake Michigan at Chicago and Calument Harbors Significance: The Illinois Wate... More

Illinois Waterway, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District,...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office was chosen as address location; Illinois Waterway spans from Mississippi River at Grafton, IL to Lake Michigan at Chicago and Calument Harbors Significance: The Illinois Wate... More

Illinois Waterway, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District,...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office was chosen as address location; Illinois Waterway spans from Mississippi River at Grafton, IL to Lake Michigan at Chicago and Calument Harbors Significance: The Illinois Wate... More

[Unidentified young soldier in Union artillery uniform with artillery ...

Case: Berg, no. 3-54. 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 Family Col... More

U. S. Military Academy, Warner House, Constitution Island, West Point,...

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Chattanooga National Military Park Tour Roads, Chattanooga, Hamilton C...

Significance: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park tour roads provide access to select areas of the park that commemorate and interpret the conflict between Union and Confederate forces over c... More

Chattanooga National Military Park Tour Roads, Chattanooga, Hamilton C...

Significance: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park tour roads provide access to select areas of the park that commemorate and interpret the conflict between Union and Confederate forces over c... More

[Unidentified young soldier in Union uniform with bayoneted musket, sc...

Frame: Thermoplastic geometric frame. Additional information in collections file. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: Dicker and Di... More

Mill Valley Air Force Station, Military Family Housing, East Ridgecres...

Survey number: HABS CA-2615-BB Building/structure dates: 1951 Initial Construction

Mill Valley Air Force Station, Military Family Housing, East Ridgecres...

Survey number: HABS CA-2615-BB Building/structure dates: 1951 Initial Construction

Mill Valley Air Force Station, Military Family Housing, East Ridgecres...

Survey number: HABS CA-2615-BB Building/structure dates: 1951 Initial Construction

Mill Valley Air Force Station, Military Family Housing, East Ridgecres...

Survey number: HABS CA-2615-BB Building/structure dates: 1951 Initial Construction

[Military map of Richmond and vicinity] /

Shows fortifications and names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Black-line print. Complete in 28 sheets. Photocopy negative has sheets ... More

Winter quarters in Army of Potomac near Brandy Station, Virginia, 1864

No. B364. 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

[Unidentified soldier in Union frock coat and forage cap with revolver...

Case: Rinhart, no. 93. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljunion

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with musket]

Case: Leather geometric. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljunion

U. S. Military Academy, Hospital Steward's Quarters, West Point, Orang...

Significance: The Hospital Steward's Quarters is representative of a late 19th century standard Quartermaster plan which was reproduced on many army posts for enlisted mens' family housing. The building retains... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union frock coat and kepi holding musket in f...

Case: Leather floral interior with scroll exterior. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Libr... More

Craik-Patton House, Daniel Boone Park, U.S. Route 60, Charleston, Kana...

Significance: House was built as residence for lawyer, later clergyman, James Craik, Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Charleston, 1839-44. Craik was grandson of George Washington's physician. George Smi... More

Camp "N. P. Banks," Colonel Collis' regiment of Zouaves d'Afrique Abov...

Print shows soldiers relaxing at encampment of regiment raised by Charles H.T. Collis.

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Quartermaster's & Commisary Storehou...

Significance: The Quartermaster's and Commissary Storehouse retains its integrity of location,design, materials, workmanship, and to a large degree, setting. It was built in connection with the development of ... More

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Corner-Entry Single-Family Ho...

Significance: The wood Craftsman housing designs show a conscious response to popular and regional architectural styles, and to the tropical environment of the site. These houses at Schofield combine some of t... More

Mission San Antonio de Padua, Hunter Liggett Military Reservation, Jol...

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[Unidentified soldier in Union corporal's uniform holding Company B, 1...

Case: Berg, no. 3-108. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: The Union Drummer Boy, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2005. Forms part of: Li... More

Anti-Saloon League at Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 1921

Photographer's address: 607 Pa. Ave. N.W., Washington D.C. Gift; Ed J. Richardson; October 26, 1951.

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and Company D forage cap with a...

Case: Leather with urn center. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Published in: Military images. Devon, Pa., March-April 2002 (XXIII, 5), p. 10. E... More

U. S. Military Academy, Chaplain's Quarters, West Point, Orange County...

Significance: The Chaplain's Quarters is part of Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson's Cadet Chapel and as such its design and siting make it one of the most prominent architectural symbols of West Point. The house fea... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union artillery uniform sitting in front of A...

Case: leather geometric scroll motif with small center cross. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of C... More

U. S. Military Academy, Artillery Stables, West Point, Orange County, ...

Significance: The Artillery Stables is one of a group of five Cram, Goodhoue, and Ferguson buildings that define the western and southern edges of Buffalo Soldier Field. The neo-gothic character of the building... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union Captain uniform with crimson sash holdi...

Case: Berg, no. 1-34. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union Captain uniform with crimson sash holdi...

Case: Berg, no. 1-34. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with bayoneted musket]

Headstand is visible in background. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljunion

Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren Co...

Significance: The Vicksburg National Military Park tour roads provide access to areas of interest in the park, which commemorates and interprets the siege and defense of Vicksburg in 1863 during the Civil War. ... More

Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren Co...

Significance: The Vicksburg National Military Park tour roads provide access to areas of interest in the park, which commemorates and interprets the siege and defense of Vicksburg in 1863 during the Civil War. ... More

Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren Co...

Significance: The Vicksburg National Military Park tour roads provide access to areas of interest in the park, which commemorates and interprets the siege and defense of Vicksburg in 1863 during the Civil War. ... More

Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren Co...

Significance: The Vicksburg National Military Park tour roads provide access to areas of interest in the park, which commemorates and interprets the siege and defense of Vicksburg in 1863 during the Civil War. ... More

Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren Co...

Significance: The Vicksburg National Military Park tour roads provide access to areas of interest in the park, which commemorates and interprets the siege and defense of Vicksburg in 1863 during the Civil War. ... More

Washington Circle, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: Included on the L'Enfant and Ellicott plans of the city, this was the first circle to be landscaped as a park. It offers vistas down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the White House, northeast up New Ha... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with bayoneted musket]

Photograph shows writing on belt plate appearing to indicate New York origin. Case: Berg, no. 3-286. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased... More

Camp of Pawnee Indians on the Platte Valley

Indians on horseback and 2 teepees. No. 202. Union Pacific Rail Road, Excursion to the 100th Meridian, October 1866. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians C... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union kepi and sack coat]

Case: Leather cross geometric motif. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Lib... More

Belle Plain, Virginia. Camp of 150th Pennsylvania Infantry

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[Unidentified young soldier in Union uniform with shoulder scales and ...

Case: Leather floral center scroll exterior. Additional information in collections file. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Published in: American... More

Confederate artillery near Charleston, S.C. in 1861 [i.e. 1863]

No. 4389. Caption log entry for no. 10358: Palmetto Battery, near Charleston, S.C. Photo by Cook. Hand written on verso: "See p. 281, Divided We Fought, and Miller, vol. I, p. 107". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform, Zouave fez, and New York buckl...

Case: Leather circular geometric. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Librar... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and cap box standing with muske...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio Administration, 616 Inf...

Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Army Garrison Fort Ritchie, Lower Lake Dam, Fort Ritchie Military...

Significance: This dam is the lower unit of a two part-water control system at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. Both dams are locally important structures used to maintain the recreational-use lakes at Fort Ritchie. A... More

U.S. Army Garrison Fort Ritchie, Lower Lake Dam, Fort Ritchie Military...

Significance: This dam is the lower unit of a two part-water control system at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. Both dams are locally important structures used to maintain the recreational-use lakes at Fort Ritchie. A... More

U. S. Military Academy, Officer's Quarters, West Point, Orange County,...

Significance: Quarters No. 48 is an example of the highly successful officers' quarters designed for the U. S. Military Academy by the office of Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson. Its character, neo-gothic reflects t... More

Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Melan Arch Bridges, ...

Significance: The nine Melan arch viaducts on Union Avenue were an integral part of the overall tour route through Vicksburg National Military Park, providing visitors safe and easy access to points of interest... More

Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Melan Arch Bridges, ...

Significance: The nine Melan arch viaducts on Union Avenue were an integral part of the overall tour route through Vicksburg National Military Park, providing visitors safe and easy access to points of interest... More

Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Melan Arch Bridges, ...

Significance: The nine Melan arch viaducts on Union Avenue were an integral part of the overall tour route through Vicksburg National Military Park, providing visitors safe and easy access to points of interest... More

[Thirty-six star flag] - An old american flag hanging on a wall

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: "Am... More

U. S. Military Academy, Cullum Memorial Hall, West Point, Orange Count...

Significance: Cullum Hall is associated with with Brevet Major General George W. Cullum, its founder, and with McKim, Mead and White, its architects. The building represents a short lived period of American Ren... More

[James A. Caruthers of Company G and Sergeant Samuel Craig Starr of Co...

Photo shows identified soldiers in Union uniform. Case: Rinhart, no. 30. Additional information in collections file. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collectio... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Sgt. and officer of 31st Penn. Infan...

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Drum Corps, 8th New York State Militia, Arlington, Virginia, June, 186...

Group portrait of 18 men and boys, many seated on drums. No. 4540. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

U. S. Military Academy, Cemetery Gates, West Point, Orange County, NY

Significance: The cemetery gates are an intricately detailed set of cast iron gates and posts which remain as a rare survivor of early exterior decorative ironwork at the Academy. Unprocessed Field note materi... More

U. S. Military Academy, Cemetery Gates, West Point, Orange County, NY

Significance: The cemetery gates are an intricately detailed set of cast iron gates and posts which remain as a rare survivor of early exterior decorative ironwork at the Academy. Unprocessed Field note materi... More

Newspapers in camp. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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.

Ruins on the Canal Basin, Richmond, Virginia, April, 1865

No. 144. 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

City Hall, Atlanta, Ga.. Stereoscope Card. Library of Congress.

Stereograph showing the camp of 2nd Massachusetts Infantry on the grounds of City Hall in Atlanta. No. 2708, in series: War views. Imprinted on card: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 591 (i.e. 501) Broadway, New York.... More

Military Papers - Jan. 2, 1781 to Oct. 4, 1813, Vol. I

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Military Papers - Jan. 2, 1781 to Oct. 4, 1813, Vol. I

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Andersonville Prison, Ga., August 17, 1864. Southwest view of stockade...

No. 8219. Hand written on verso: "Vol. VII, p. 177". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Quadrangle K Barracks Type, B...

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Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Non-Commissioned Officer's Quarters,...

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Winter quarters of the Engineer Corps.

Stereograph showing Colonel Ira Spaulding standing at the entrance of his winter quarters covered with pine boughs at the camp of the 50th New York Engineer Corps, Petersburg, Virginia. No. 1047. Part of series... More

[Military construction in northern Virginia: five men in three blanket...

No. 75 (handwritten) and 2575 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

U. S. Military Academy, Cadet Chapel, West Point, Orange County, NY

Significance: The Cadet Chapel is the most ambitious and spectacular of all the Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson buildings at West Point. Its site, above the Academic Area and Plain, make this the most visible symbol... More

U. S. Military Academy, Cadet Chapel, West Point, Orange County, NY

Significance: The Cadet Chapel is the most ambitious and spectacular of all the Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson buildings at West Point. Its site, above the Academic Area and Plain, make this the most visible symbol... More

[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.

U.S. Military Academy, Married Enlisted Men's Quarters, South of inter...

Significance: Quarters No. 352 is an example of mid-19th century housing to accommodate the enlisted men on the military post away from the cadets at the Academy. A number of similar, small duplex units were co... More

S. Peterburgʺ. Imperatorskai︠a︡ voenno meditsinskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ St....

Print shows Voskresensky Novodevichy Convent in St. Petersburg, Russia. Addressed to: Miss ... Petersen ... Denmark. Message on recto in Danish. Forms part of: Winokur-Munblit Collection of the Russian Empire ... More

Pride of the musketeers, The; Military song