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The Dis-United States. Or the Southern Confederacy

The Confederate leaders are portrayed as a band of competing opportunists led by South Carolina governor and secessionist Francis Pickens (far left). The artist criticizes the January 1861 secession of five sta... More

Lieutenant Tompkins, at the head of Company B, U.S. Dragoons, charging...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 12, no. 290 (1861 June 8), p. 53.

Stephens, Honorable Alex H. of Ga. Vice Pres. of Confederacy

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The "secession movement", Confederate States of America.

The movement of several Southern states toward secession in early 1861 is portrayed as a doomed enterprise. The artist shows Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, all represented by men riding donkeys, ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate artillery jacket with secession b...

Case: Berg, no. 1-150. 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 (Library of Congre... More

Secession meeting in front of the Mills House, Meeting Street, Charles...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 11, no. 262 (1860 Dec. 1), p. 24. Reference copy may be in LOT 4421-A. Caption card tracings: US ... More

[Illustrated Civil War "Union Envelopes"]: A Secession Movement

Riding jackass backwards. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: The South; Patriotism; Devils & Demons (Cart. themes); Cotton industry; C... More

Jeff Davis on the right platform, or the last "act of secession"

A caricature of Jefferson Davis, probably issued not long after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, but certainly postdating his February 1861 election as president of the Confederacy. Davis is shown standing on a ... More

The Southern Confederacy a fact!!! Acknowledged by a might prince and ...

A biting vilification of the Confederacy, representing it as a government in league with Satan. From left to right are: "Mr. Mob Law Chief Justice," a well-armed ruffian carrying a pot of tar; Secretary of Stat... More

Ruins of Central and Secession Hall, and St. Philips church in the cen...

Stereograph showing ruins of Circular Church, left, St. Philip's Church, center, and Secession Hall, right, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Secession Hall

Public domain photograph of building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Circular Church and Secession Hal...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate artillery jacket with secession b...

Great mass meeting to endorse the call of the legislature of South Car...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1860 Nov. 24, p. 8-9. Reference copy may be in LOT 4412A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Secession exploded, Confederate States of America.

This strongly anti-Confederate satire is a fantastical vision of the Union defeat of the secessionist movement. A hideous monster representing secession emerges from the water at left. He is hit by a charge fro... More

[Private David C. Colbert of Company C, 46th Virginia Infantry Regimen...

Photograph shows identified soldier; manuscript found with photograph. More information is in "Glimpses of Soldiers' Lives," SoldierbiosColbert.html

Ruins of Secession Hall, Charleston, S.C.

Stereograph showing the ruins of Secession Hall, right, and Circular Church, left. In the near distance, is St. Phillip's Church. A man is sitting on a brick wall. No. 6077. Part of series: The War for the Uni... More

Southern ass-stock-crazy (Southern aristocracy)

Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Southern secessionists raise flag at Yale College]

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 11, no. 271 (1861 February 2), p. 173.

Finding the last ditch--Running the "head" of Secession "into the grou...

Union soldier, followed by African American in broken chains, hurls Jefferson Davis (dressed as a woman) who drops a bag of "stolen gold" over the edge of a cliff; Satan waits below the cliff with a pitchfork. ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Virginia Volunteer uniform and secession badg...

Public domain scan of American Civil War portrait, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meeting Street-Ruins of Secession Hall and Circular Church, with St. P...

Part of series: War Views, Charleston, S.C. and Forts in vicinity. No. 360. Printed on verso: "Photographed on the spot, in March and April, 1865." Copyright by John P. Soule in 1865. Forms part of: Civil War... More

[Illustrated Civil War "Union Envelopes"]: Poor deluded Miss-Sori take...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: The South; Patriotism; Devils & Demons (Cart. themes); Cotton industry; C.W. CS Govt.; Seals; Va. H... More

Throckmorton, Honorable James Webb of Texas (Member of Secession Conve...

A black and white photo of two men in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Honorable Alexander Hamilton Stephens Vice-President of the Confederac...

Public domain portrait photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Stephens, Honorable Alexander H. of GA

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The political Courtney / Gillam., Confederate States of America.

Illustration shows a scene at a boathouse where an exhausted James G. Blaine, suffering from "Guano Gout", is being attended to by Jay Gould, Whitelaw Reid, George M. Robeson, William W. Phelps, and Stephen B. ... More

Institute Hall - known as Secession Hall

Photograph shows a street view of Institute Hall, known as Secession Hall, flanked on the left by the Circular Church and on the right by the Teetotal restaurant. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:02... More

The Hercules of the Union, slaying the great dragon of secession

A tribute to commander of Union forces Gen. Winfield Scott, shown as the mythical Hercules slaying the many-headed dragon or hydra, here symbolizing the secession of the Confederate states. At left stands Scott... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Circular Church and Secession Hal...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charleston, South Carolina. Remains of Circular Church and Secession H...

Public domain photograph of building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Charleston, S.C. Hibernian Hall (with columns; 105 Meeting Street), p...

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

[Corporal John Wesley Edmunds of Co. B, 11th Virginia Infantry Regimen...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Case: Leather; floral design. Notation in ink on trade card verso: "John Wesley Edmunds, son of Joseph & Charlotte, died 1863 in Civil War." Notation in ink on manuscript r... More

Great mass meeting to endorse the call of the Legislature of South Ca...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 11, no. 261 (1860 Nov. 24), pp. 8-9. Reference copy may be in LOT 4421-A. Caption card tracings: ... More

[Unidentified young boy wearing secession badge and holding a rifle]

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The folly of secession, Confederate States of America.

South Carolina struggles against the outgoing Buchanan administration in an attempt to "smash the Union up!" The artist uses the age-old pictorial conceit of two parties pulling on the different ends of a cow, ... More

Ruins of Circular Church and Secession Hall, Charleston, S.C., St. Phi...

Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 6077. Brady Handy Studio.

The starting point of the great war between the states / lith. by A. H...

Print shows a crowd gathered in front of the capitol building at Montgomery, Alabama, at the time of the announcement of Jefferson Davis as the first President of the Confederate States of America; also shown w... More

[Corporal John Wesley Edmunds of Co. B, 11th Virginia Infantry Regimen...

Thaddeus Stevens Papers: General Correspondence, 1829-1869; 1865, Dec

Charleston, South Carolina. Remains of Circular Church and Secession H...

Public domain photograph of building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Secession Hall

Public domain photograph of building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Corporal John Wesley Edmunds of Co. B, 11th Virginia Infantry Regimen...

Alexander Stephens C.S.A., American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negati...

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Interior of Secession Hall. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph showing the interior of St. Andrew's Hall, or Secession Hall, in Charleston, South Carolina. Photograph by George S. Cook. Information about date and photographer from: Portraits of Conflict: a Phot... More

Strong's dime caricatures. No. 2, Little Bo-Peep and her foolish sheep

The second in a series of caricatures criticizing the secession of several Southern states from the Union during the last months of the Buchanan administration. Here the young nursery-rhyme shepherdess Bo-Peep ... More

The Hercules of the Union, slaying the great dragon of secession

Our heroes, and our flags, Confederate States of America.

Memorial print for the Confederacy, published 30 years after the end of the American Civil War. Portraits, clockwise from top center, of "Jefferson Davis, Alexander H. Stephens, Lt. Gen. T.J. [Stonewall] Jackso... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Circular Church and Secession Hal...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alex Stephen, C.S.A., American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

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Strong's dime caricatures. No. 1, Domestic troubles

The first in a series of four satires published by Thomas W. Strong, criticizing the secession movement in the South during the closing months of the Buchanan administration. (This impression was deposited for ... More

The Union versus secession. The Union builds bridges and secession des...

2 scenes: 1. Railroad bridge and mine tunnel; 2. Train falling from destroyed bridge into river. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1861. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4419 - CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 CARTOONS 1861. This record ... More

Down with the traitors serpent flag

An illustrated unionist sheet music cover, condemning secessionist state South Carolina, and probably issued shortly after its Charleston Convention of December 20, 1860. (See "The Palmetto State Song," no. 186... More

Jeff Davis, on his own platform, or the last "act of secession"

Another state of no. 1861-23, with the addition of a skull and crossbones drawn on Davis's chest. Probably published by Currier & Ives, New York. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 129.... More

[Private Peter S. Arthur of Company B, 11th Virginia Infantry Regiment...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Case: Berg, no. 1-93. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms pa... More

Ruins of Circular Church, St. Philips Church in the distance, ruins of...

Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: ... More

Ruins of Circular Church and Secession Hall, no. 623 / George Stacy.

Stereograph shows an exterior view of the destroyed buidlings of the Circular Church and Secession Hall, Charleston, South Carolina. Card number: "No. 623." Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stere... More

The starting point of the great war between the states

[Alexander Hamilton Stephens, half-length studio portrait, sitting] / ...

Gift ; Francis H. McAdoo ; August 26, 1949. 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... More

Stephens, Honorable Alexander H. of Ga.

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Strong's dime caricatures. No. 3, South Carolina Topsey in a fix

The third in Thomas W. Strong's "Dime Caricatures" series of antisecessionist prints published early in 1861. Here Topsy, the impish slave child in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," personifies the s... More

[Charleston, S.C. Hibernian Hall (with columns; 105 Meeting Street), p...

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

[Alexander H. Stephens, Representative from Georgia, Thirty-fifth Cong...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 167. Each item includes subject's orig... More

The Palmetto State song - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congre...

An illustrated cover for sheet music celebrating the South Carolina state convention on December 20, 1860, where an ordinance of secession was passed unanimously, thereby severing the state's ties with the Unio... More

Graveyard of Circular Church and ruins of Secession Hall in distance, ...

Civil War Collection (Library of Congress) - Brady-Handy Studio. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: War damage; C.W.; Geogr.; Cemeteries.

Circular Ch., St Philip's Ch., Secession Hall, Charleston, S.C.

Photograph shows scaffolding on the Circular Church, steeple of St. Philip's Church, and ruins of Secession Hall in Charleston, South Carolina. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3073. Forms part of: Visual... More

The secession bubble. "It must burst" / J.H. Bufford's Lith., Boston.

A genre scene with a pointed political reference. A black girl, probably the child of slaves, plays with a soap pipe in a garden. Beyond the garden fence, in a landscape with palmettos, a fortress flying a Conf... More

Ruins of Secession Hall, Charleston, S.C.

Houston, Santa Anna, and Cos - A cartoon of a group of men with skis

An imaginative portrayal (with overt propaganda value) of an event in the Texas war of independence --the surrender of Mexican commander Santa Anna and his brother-in-law General Martin Perfecto de Cos, to Amer... More