19,745 Siege Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

[Petersburg, Virginia Interior of Fort Sedgwick, with bomb-proof quart...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia General view of camp of Oneida, N.Y., Independen...

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

[In the best restaurant during the awful siege - wrecked by Japanese s...

Photograph shows a group of Russian men, two eating, and one Chinese man in the bombed-out remains of a restaurant. H63428 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from pu... More

[Sketches of the Signal Corps during the American Civil War]

Preliminary study for DRWG/US Waud (W.), no. 12 (A size). Sketch of civilian eating from plate upper left. Title devised. Two floor plans for fortress and building on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919... More

Devil's Backbone, Vicksburg, Miss.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

West views from Port Hudson - A black and white photo of an old town

Photograph shows damaged weapons, fortifications and a view of the river from the parapet inside Port Hudson after the siege. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Inscribed on verso: No. 2 Forms ... More

[Fort Fisher, N.C. View of the land front, showing destroyed gun carri...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia General view] - 19th century Virginia.

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Summer quarters]

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

[Damaged gun inside Port Hudson after the siege in 1863]

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff. No. 18 and C.D.E. inscribed on verso. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for C... 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.

[Petersburg, Virginia Bomb-proof quarters, Fort Sedgwick ("Fort Hell")...

Photo shows graffiti on one of the planks over the door: "Lieut. W.B. Lapham, Maine Battery ... 9th Army Corps" (Source: Robert Maresz, 2013) Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Peters... More

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 Courthouse] - 19th century Virginia.

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

Capture of four 20 lb Parrotts at Deep Bottom by Gen Miles

Inscribed below image: William Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below title: see daily papers this is called the fight at Strawberry Plains. Inscribed upper right: When our men charged the Gunners fl... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Earthworks in front of the town]

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

Memoir of Lieut. Col. Tench Tilghman, secretary and aid to Washington ...

Includes bibliographical references. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

[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.

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

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

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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

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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, 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

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.

[Confederate cannon with shells captured during the siege of Port Huds...

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

[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.

View of Fort Clifton showing the Water Battery and obstructions in the...

Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below title: sketched from Battery B 2nd U.S. regulars (colored). Inscribed above image : (sketch 3); obstructions in the river sunk by the rebels; Water Battery of Clifton... More

East view from Port Hudson, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows Captain Coxe's battery preparing to engage the Confederates at Port Hudson, during the siege in 1863. The cotton on the ground was used to protect the cannoneers. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 201... More

Rebel breastworks in front of Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg). The small...

Stereograph showing a soldier standing near a log fortified parapet at a Confederate fort. No. 3218, part of series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. This view was taken ... More

W.G. Johnson's tent, purveyor 2d. division, 9th Corps, Army of the Pot...

Stereograph shows sutler selling supplies in tent at Petersburg, Virginia. Corresponding glass negatives: LC-B811-2448B, left, and LC-B811-2448A, right. E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. acquired the negatives from the ... More

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier crumpled in a fetal position in the trenches outside of Fort Mahone near Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865. No. 6190. Part of series: The War for the Union. Phot... More

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier lying on the ground from the trenches near Petersburg, Virginia. Photo taken on April 2, 1865. No. 6184. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War Hi... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Federal line near Fort Morton]

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

Spot near fort Damnation where the 9th Corps charged and afterwords ca...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: Sketch A. the Frize [sic] and Abattis was placed in the night after the fight. Inscribed lower left above title: This bank enem... More

[Fort Fisher, N.C. View of the land front, showing destroyed gun carri...

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 Company H, 114th Pennsylvania Infantry (Zouaves)...

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

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

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

Sarsfield's surprise and capture of Williams's siege train at Killenam...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Heavy gun mounted on inner line of Confederate f...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Bomb-proof quarters, Fort Sedgwick ("Fort Hell")...

Photo shows graffiti on one of the planks over the door: "Lieut. W.B. Lapham, Maine Battery ... 9th Army Corps" (Source: Robert Maresz, 2013) Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Peters... More

[Damaged cannon and artillery inside Port Hudson after the siege]

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff. #9 and C.D.E. inscribed on verso. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil... More

Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers of 4th New York heavy Artillery loading ...

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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

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

Reb. 24 pounder, disabled inside Port Hudson

Photograph shows a damaged Confederate gun inside Port Hudson after the surrender in July 1863.

Siege of Vicksburg--13, 15, & 17 Corps, Commanded by General U.S. Gran...

27021T U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1888 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A.

Capture of four 20 lb Parrotts at Deep Bottom by Gen Miles

Inscribed below image: William Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below title: see daily papers this is called the fight at Strawberry Plains. Inscribed upper right: When our men charged the Gunners fl... More

Blocking - shutting the mouth of Port Arthur

Print shows two Japanese sailors driving battleships like spikes through the lips of the mouth of the harbor at Lüshun (Port Arthur), China. Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Descriptive... More

The siege of Namur by Captn. Shandy & Corporal Trim. Tris: Shan. / H.W...

One of a series of illustrations to Sterne's Tristram Shandy showing Uncle Toby marching, with crutch under his left arm, pointing with his right crutch towards the fortifications built on the bowling green, wh... More

Plan of Fort Meigs' and its environs : compricing [sic] the operations...

Ms. pictorial map showing troop positions during the Siege of Fort Meigs, Perrysburg (Ohio), 1813. Pen-and-ink and watercolors. Text, descriptive notes, and poem are mechanically printed on the sheet. Brittle, ... More

Sebastopol from the east or extreme right of English attack / W. Simps...

Print shows English pickets in the foreground, soldiers in trenches, and a distant view of the forts and other buildings in Sevastopolʹ. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her m... More

Siege train at Yorktown Landing, Virginia

No. B121. 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

Charleston Harbor S.C. Bombardment of Fort Sumter.

Regional view of Charleston Harbor showing the city of Charleston on the Ashley and Cooper rivers, Castle Pinckney on Shute's Folly Island, Pleasantville and Mt. Pleasant Battery, Mechanicsville and batteries o... More

The Zouave - Public domain portrait drawing

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.161) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, ...

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

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

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

[Desolation of the terrible siege - from wrecked home looking over doo...

Photograph shows rubble in a bombed home; in the background a war ship. H63437 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7797.