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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

Petersburg, Virginia Sutler's bomb-proof "Fruit and Oyster House"

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Stereo filed in LOT 4166-F. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mu... More

Petersburg, Virginia The "Dictator," a 13-inch mortar, in position

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

City Point, Virginia African Americans unloading vessels at landing

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 The "Dictator," a closer view

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 View of Fort Sedgwick

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. : Librar... More

Broadway Landing, Virginia Federal ordnance at the depot

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

Broadway Landing, Virginia Federal ordnance at the depot; another view

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

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. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

Story of the Tensaw, Blakely, Spanish Fort, Jackson Oaks, Fort Mims

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The 24th Corps charging a fort to the left.

This image may depict the final assault on Petersburg, at Fort Gregg, 2 April 1865. Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower left: [B]attery Greig[sic]. Inscribed above image: Reb... More

The 24th Corps charging a fort to the left.

This image may depict the final assault on Petersburg, at Fort Gregg, 2 April 1865. Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower left: [B]attery Greig[sic]. Inscribed above image: Reb... More

[Petersburg, Virginia, vicinity. Canal aqueduct] - 19th century Virgin...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia, vicinity. Canal aqueduct] - 19th century Virgin...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia U.S. Military Telegraph battery wagon, Army of t...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Three surgeons of 1st Division, 9th Corps]

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

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown Virginia Oct. 19th. 1781

Print shows British officers walking next to General Lincoln between lines of American and French soldiers.

Gen Butlers Canal at Dutch Gap - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed upper left. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 5, 1864, pp. 712-713, as part of: Yankee Improvements in Front of Petersburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print avai... More

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

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

Vue de la ville de Savannah, du camp, des tranchées et de l'attaque Oc...

Photograph shows a bird's-eye view of Savannah from the French camp.

Storming the line. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed upper left: To the left of Ft. Mahone. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.416) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1865. Forms part of: Morga... More

The Beauregard or Fort Sumter polka march

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

[Detritus of war within the earthworks after the surrender of the Conf...

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff. No. 8 and C.D.E. inscribed on verso. Image published in: Zeller, Bob, The Civil War in Depth, Volume II. San Francisco: Chronic... More

In front of Petersburg - Public domain scan / drawing

Signed below image: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: enemies first line of earthworks our lines below and in front. Inscribed above image: Smoke of locomotive on Petersburg and Ric... More

In front of Petersburg - Public domain scan / drawing

Signed below image: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: enemies first line of earthworks our lines below and in front. Inscribed above image: Smoke of locomotive on Petersburg and Ric... More

Dead rebel in front of Petersburg (Andrew J. Russel)

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

Making parrallels [sic] - Public domain scan / drawing

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

Gen'l Weitzel's hdqtrs before Port Hudson

Photograph shows the defensive earthworks comprising General Godfrey Weitzel's headquarters during the siege. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Mills on the Appomattox River near Campbell's Br...

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

Richmond, Virginia. Captured siege gun at Rocketts

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Chevaux-de-frise in front of Fort Sedgwick]

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

Soldiers' quarters in the Union Fort Rice adjoining Fort Sedgwick (for...

Stereograph showing soldiers' quarters in ruins inside Fort Rice near Petersburg, Virginia. No. 3196, part of series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Imprinted on verso:... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Interior view of Confederate works]

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Interior view of Confederate works]

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

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

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

Into Vicksburg - Public domain American piano sheet music

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

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

[City Point, Virginia African Americans unloading vessels at landing]

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

[View of the river with Port Hudson on the bluff in the distance]

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff. #10 and C.D.E. inscribed on verso. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civi... More

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

[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts; different view]

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

Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Va. 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

[City Point, Virginia "General J. C. Robinson" and other locomotives o...

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

Breastworks and "Cheavaux de Frise" in the Rebel Fort Mahone, called b...

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing on the log fortified parapet at Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Va. Lt. John B. Krepps, 2nd Penn. Heavy Artillery, 112th Regiment, Battery K is fourth from left. Part of se... More

[Petersburg, Virginia, vicinity. Johnson's Mill on the Appomattox near...

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

[Early morning in a Russian battery during the siege of Port Arthur]

H63422 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7741.

Hilton Head, South Carolina. Federal siege train

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Battle of Darby Town Rd. Gen'l Butler & his staff

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed above image: 1st Connecticut Battery Capt. Clinton. Our skirmish firing at the rebels in the woods. The Gerhadt House. Inscribed on verso: View of the action on Thursday 27th... More

[Broadway Landing, Virginia Federal ordnance at the depot; another vie...

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

Bridge on the Appotomax [sic]--Train of Cars and workshops burned by t...

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: South side of R.R. workshop. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.450) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Row of stacked Federal rifles; houses beyond]

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

Capture of Petersburg - Public domain drawing

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.

Capture of Petersburg - Public domain scan / drawing

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.

[Broadway Landing, Virginia Pontoon bridge across the Appomattox]

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

[Portable siege ladder]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a portable ladder with sections that are screwed together, used during siege warfare. Illus. in: Des durchleichtigen wolgebornen Grauen Flauii Vegecii Renati kurcze Red von der Ritterschafft (De re... More

Kurtze und eigentliche Entwerffung der schweren Belägerung so die Stad...

Birds-eye view engraving shows the walled city of Leipzig, Germany under siege by Swedish forces in 1642. Includes inset pictures of the castle fortress of Pleissenburg before and during the shelling and inset ... More

Ausführliche Vorstellung der Weltberuffnen Spanisch-Niederländischen S...

Print shows a birdseye view of the fortress city of Luxembourg under siege in 1684 by French troops. Includes views of the city under fire by troops firing volleys from across a river into the walled city. Incl... More

Qubbec, ville de l'Amerique septentrionale dans la Nouvelle France ave...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

The new works at the siege of Sebastopol on the right attack - from th...

Print shows a mortar battery with soldiers, two mortars, gabions, and earthworks, with a distant view of Sevastopolʹ. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majest... More

[Fort Sedgwick near Petersburg], Confederate States of America. (Andre...

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

Map showing the investment and siege of Savannah, Georgia by Genl Sher...

Regional view of Savannah, Ga., with the many landforms (rivers, sounds, swamps, islands) noted as well as the locations of forts Jackson and Pulaski. The Savannah & Gulf Railroad, Georgia Central Railroad, and... More

Sketch of an officer - Public domain portrait engraving

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.160) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Miss Smith, a heroine of the siege and protected refugees, among the r...

H2162 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph taken by photographer James Ricalton during his trip to China in 1900. (Source: China through the stereoscope; a journey through the dragon empire at the time of the Box... More

Siege battery drill, ready for loading, [United States Military Academ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, parade, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Wounded soldiers of the Czar -- convalescents at Marinsky Hospital du...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

New concrete observatory tower, Vicksburg, Miss.

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Illinois State Memorial and Shirley House, Vicksburg, Miss

"G 6854" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072163. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Siege of Jerusalem, Oct. 22, '38

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Siege of Jerusalem, Oct. 22, '38

Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, crypt, chamber, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Siege of Jerusalem, Oct. 22, '38

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, 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 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

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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 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

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, 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, 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

Third day of the siege of Monterey, Sept. 23rd. 1846

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6476

Petersburg, Virginia Mills; photographic wagon of Engineer Dept. in fo...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege 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 Three surgeons of 1st Division, 9th Corps

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

Making coffee. On the lines before Petersburg, Virginia, 1864

Stereograph showing African American troops making coffee while sitting in front of a bombproof shelter near Petersburg, Virginia. No. 804. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-... More

Surrender Monument, Vicksburg, Miss.

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

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). A two-gun Confederate battery protected...

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[City Point, Virginia, vicinity. Medical supply boat Planter at Genera...

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

[City Point, Virginia, vicinity. Medical supply boat Planter at Genera...

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

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

[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

The Triumph of the old flag, or Our flag o'er Richmond waves again

Music associated with the Union side

[Murfreesboro, Tenn., vicinity. Men repairing single-track railroad af...

Photograph of the War in the West. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Petersburg, Virginia Officers of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry at Arm...

Unknown; Capt. Edward A. Flint, Capt. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Lt. George H. Teague. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

[Cedar Level, Virginia Commissary depot with supply train wagons]

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

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.

The siege of New Ulm, Minn. / painted by H. Aug. Schwabe.

Battle between Sioux Indians and settlers in August 1862. Reproduction of painting.