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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

1:25 000-scale topographic map of Colonial National Historical Park, V...

Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by contours and soundings. Title from panel. Title in right lower margin: Colonial National Historical Park, Virginia : 37076-B5-PF-025 : 1981. "Compiled ... More

Petersburg, Virginia Surgeons of 3d Division before hospital tent

Photographs from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libr... More

Rebel defensive Works in front of Petersburg nr. Col averys house take...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed above image. Inscribed on left and middle sheets: Ploughed field. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.301) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawing... More

Petersburg, Virginia Entrance to mine in Fort Mahone, intended to unde...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

Petersburg, Virginia Interior of Fort Sedgwick

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Signal tower at 14th New York Heavy Artillery he...

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

General hospital wharf. Army of the Potomac, City Point, Virginia

Stereograph showing a group of men and a horse drawn cart at the shore. In the background, the medical supply boat, Planter, and another ship are at the wharf on the Appomattox River near City Point, Virginia.... More

[Petersburg, Virginia The "Dictator," a closer view]

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Group of Company B, U.S. Engineer Battalion]

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

[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.

The siege of Vicksburg - Major General U.S. Grant, commanding / JG ; s...

Print shows soldiers in the foreground hiding behind trees and bushes during a bombardment of the encampment and earthworks of the Union army outside Vicksburg, Mississippi, with Confederate forts and earthwork... More

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier on the foot passages in the trenches of Fort Mahone with blood on his face, near Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865.

[City Point, Virginia Tents of the general hospital]

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

General Warren fortifying his lines on the Weldon road

Troops building breastworks and digging trenches by moonlight, while leaders plan strategy by lantern. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 1, 1864, ... More

[Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior view of the "Pulpit"]

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

[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.

Making parrallels [sic]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Soldiers digging trenches. Signed lower right: A. R.W. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 6, 1864, p. 504 as part of : General Grant's Campaign in the trenches before Petersburg.... More

View inside Port Hudson - A black and white photo of a horse drawn car...

Photograph shows damaged weapons and fortifications inside Port Hudson after the siege. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Fundin... More

Richmond, Virginia. Captured siege gun at Rocketts

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Midnight before Petersburg] - Public domain scenic drawing

Title devised from Harper's Weekly title. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 8, 1864, pp. 648-9. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.735) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 186... More

[Petersburg, Virginia, vicinity. The execution of William Johnson, Jor...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Interior of Fort Steadman; bomb-proof in foregro...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Interior of Fort Steadman; bomb-proof in foregro...

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

Casemented fort in front of Petersburg

Title inscribed in blue crayon above image. Inscribed on verso: This is the only casemented fort on the line. I was not allowed to make a sketch of it, so this is a stolen one. Across the nigh part of the work ... More

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

[Gun battery at Port Hudson, Louisiana] / photographed by McPherson & ...

Photograph shows a cannon on the ground by a wall of sandbags and a row of barrels. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV50 ;Port Hudson. "XXXVI-5" written... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Military telegraph operators at headquarters; an...

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

[Appomattox Court House, Virginia Federal soldiers at the courthouse]

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

Rebel fort & line of works near Burgess Mills evacuated by the rebels ...

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed on verso under title: The 6th Corps flanked them out./ AR.W./ 2n Apr. 65,/ On my way to Petersburgh.[sic]. Inscribed on recto, indicating key Spots: Woods. Pines. Oaks. Pines... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Federal troops drawn up to witness a hanging]

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Federal troops drawn up to witness a hanging]

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Blandford Church and graveyard]

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

[City Point, Virginia Wharf, Federal artillery, and anchored schooners...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1̀864-April 1865.

Aiming a Mortar, in Jacksons Connecticut battery

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Published in Harper's Weekly, August 6, 1864, p. 505 as part of a series: In the trenches before Petersburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.451... More

North side views from Port Hudson

Photograph shows Confederate artillery after the surrender of Port Hudson in July of 1863.

[Yorktown, Virginia Confederate water Battery Magruder, with Rodman sm...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Military telegraph operators at headquarters]

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

The battle of Petersburg Virginia April 2nd 1865

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0473

Interior of Fort Steadman in front of Petersburg, Virginia

Photograph showing the various supports used behind the wall of the parapet at Fort Steadman. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, ... More

Les ballons du Siège de Paris, septembre 1870 - février 1871 / A. Tiss...

Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, with categories for name of balloon and balloonist, date and time of departure and arrival. Surr... More

Les ballons du Siège de Paris, septembre 1870 - février 1871 / A. Tiss...

Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, with categories for name of balloon and balloonist, date and time of departure and arrival. Surr... More

[City Point, Virginia African American army cook at work]

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

Rebel soldier, killed in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the so...

Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Caption continues: This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.... More

The 3rd Custer div. on the 7th of Octr. retiring and burning the forag...

Custer and his cavalry in the foreground, two regiments of infantry in background. Signed lower left: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: [b]lue ridge, Red neckties. Inscribed upper right: C... More

Fort Hell. On Genl Warrens line

Signed lower left: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Published in: Harper's Weekly, September 17, 1864 p. 605, and credited to William Waud. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0396) Reference print ... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Courthouse] - 19th century Virginia.

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

Capture of Petersburg. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title inscribed on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.617) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

[City Point, Virginia Rear view of General Ulysses S. Grant's headquar...

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

Siege of Yorktown. Federal Battery No. 1

No. 4179. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. V, p. 23. Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [1865-66], v. 1, no. 13. ... More

The siege of Vicksburg - Major General U.S. Grant, commanding / JG ; s...

Print shows soldiers in the foreground hiding behind trees and bushes during a bombardment of the encampment and earthworks of the Union army outside Vicksburg, Mississippi, with Confederate forts and earthwork... More

[Battery Reynolds. Five 10-inch siege mortars against Wagner]

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

View of Fort Clifton Rebel from the Mills House looking across the App...

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed above image, from left to right: The end as it should be; The Water Battery made two years ago; Rebel signal house; Clifton House; (Sketch 2); A Clifton Battery bearing do... More

Sketch of the forts and breastworks near Petersburg

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.281) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Battery on Turner's rocks : [Georgia]. during American Civil War

Shows a part of the defenses of Savannah. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S110, 211 Pen-and-ink on tracing cloth mounted on paper. Available also through the ... More

Captured siege guns, at Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia

Stereograph showing three Confederate mounted cannons at Rocketts Landing in Richmond. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Forms part of: Civ... More

The surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown A.D. 1781

Print depicts the surrender of the British forces after the Battle of Yorktown. Major General O'Hara, substituting for General Cornwallis, is shown handing his sword to the Comte de Rochambeau, who is standing ... More

[Commemorative portrait of balloonists Charles Renard, Dupuy de Lôme, ...

Tissandier collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Russian officers watching Japanese assault on one of the forts -- dur...

H63424 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7734.

[In a Russian trench near "Eagle's Nest" during the siege -- watching ...

H63729 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7775.

Pennsylvania State Memorial, Vicksburg, Miss.

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Hampshire State Memorial, Vicksburg, Miss.

Public domain photograph of a column monument, city square, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old bronze, muzzle-loading siege gun used by Filipinos against America...

(DLC/PP-1935:0006). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Making of a Regiment" by Frederick Funston, Scribner's, 49:645 (June 1911).

The raising of the siege of Jerusalem. Typical scene of troops in Cld ...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

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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

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

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Family of the lower class "chowing" in their home, partially destroyed...

Stereograph showing a family eating outside their home in Tianjin, China. H16937 U.S. Copyright Office. No. (65); No. 1. Copyright, 1902, by Underwood & Underwood.

Broadway Landing, Virginia Pontoon bridge across the Appomattox

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

Civil War papers - Minnesota Historical Society

"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, January 14, 1907." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

[Petersburg, Virginia Chaplains of the 9th Corps]

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry play...

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

[Broadway Landing, Virginia Tripod artillery swing by the Appomattox]

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

Union picket line in front of the rebel Fort Mahone, called by the sol...

Stereograph showing Union soldiers amid the gabion reinforced fortifications of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Date from negative sleeve. Copyri... More

[Confederate and Union dead side by side in the trenches at Fort Mahon...

Photo shows a body lying in the background that is actually the photographer's African American teamster posing for the scene. The live model appears in the same clothes in negative LC-B811-3231. (Source: David... More

[Big Black River Station, Miss. Wagons and sheds]

Photograph of the War in the West. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General hospital wharf. Army of the Potomac, City Point, Virginia

Stereograph showing a group of men and a horse drawn cart at the shore. In the background, the medical supply boat, Planter, and another ship are at the wharf on the Appomattox River near City Point, Virginia.... More

John Singleton Copley - William Sharp - The seige and relief of Gibral...

Engraving by William Sharp after painting by J.S. Copley. Copyright by J.S. Copley.

[Petersburg, Virginia View from signal tower]

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Fortifications] - 19th century Virginia.

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

[Distant view, probably Port Hudson, Louisiana] / photographed by McPh...

Photograph shows distant view of men on a hilly landscape, probably taken after the seige of Port Hudson, 1863.

C.S. soldier killed in the trenches at the storming of Petersburgh (i....

Stereograph showing a soldier wearing a gunner's haversack, which confirms his identity as an artilleryman. The photographer placed a broken gun sponge in the scene as a prop, which indicates that the image was... More

C.S. soldier killed in the trenches at the storming of Petersburgh (i....

Stereograph showing a soldier wearing a gunner's haversack, which confirms his identity as an artilleryman. The photographer placed a broken gun sponge in the scene as a prop, which indicates that the image was... More

Union picket line in front of the rebel Fort Mahone, called by the sol...

Stereograph showing three Union guards behind the gabion reinforced fortifications and some debris at Fort Mahone, near Petersburg, Virginia. No. 3201, part of series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the... More

The siege of Vicksburg - Major General U.S. Grant, commanding Represen...

Print shows at center "The Siege Battery", with tents and underground bunkers in the foreground; in the distance are Union rifle pits and along the ridge are Confederate forts and earthworks. Major features are... More

Third day of the siege of Monterey [sic]--Sept. 23rd 1846 / lith. & pu...

Copyright by Sarony & Major. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Railroad battery before Petersburg - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing General Grant's railroad battery and crew near Petersburg, Virginia. The cannon is mounted in a specially made armored car that moves along the track close to or away from the enemy as requi... More

[Russian dead strewn over the ground awaiting burial in one common gra...

H63713 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7762.

Richmond has fallen - Public domain music sheet scan

Signal tower on the line before Petersburg, Virginia, 1864

Stereograph showing a group of men standing near the signal tower on a hill outside of the fortifications in the vicinity of Point of Rocks, Virginia. No. 2568. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photograph... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Breastworks of the Confederate Fort Mahone ("For...

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

A dead rebel soldier, inside the Union picket lines

Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Caption continues: This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865. Variant of neg. no. LC-B811-3186. Copyrig... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Interior of Fort Steadman]

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

Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Virginia Oct. 1781

Print shows Major General O'Hara, surrounded by French and American soldiers handing his sword in surrender to General Lincoln. Reference copy in LOT 4412 JJ. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by... More

[Yorktown, Virginia Confederate water Battery Magruder, with Rodman sm...

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