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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 ...

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

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...

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.

[Bomb-proof shelters in a Russian trench near a battery during the sie...

H63722 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7778.

[Looking from the Russian trenches over Fort No. 2 to Taikozan during ...

H63698 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7772.

[In a Russian fort during the great siege - marks of Japanese shells a...

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

Siege of Jerusalem, Oct. 22, '38

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

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

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The raising of the siege of Jerusalem. Troops of the Old City intent o...

Photo shows G. Eric Matson with soldiers. The American Colony in Jerusalem was a Christian utopian community that was established in Jerusalem in the late 19th century. The community was founded by a group of ... More

The raising of the siege of Jerusalem. Nurse handing over loaf of brea...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Prise de Yorktown = The taking of Yorktown / Lith. de Turgis à Paris.

Print shows American, British and Hessian soldiers fighting furiously at the Siege of Yorktown. Reference print in LOT 4412 JI.

The fall of Sebastopol Capture of the Malakoff tower / / E.B. & E.C. K...

French zouaves and Russian soldiers engaged in hand-to-hand combat at the Malakoff tower.

Petersburg, Virginia, vicinity. Canal aqueduct - 19th century Virginia...

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, vicinity. Johnson's Mill on the Appomattox near ...

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

Murfreesboro, Tenn., vicinity. Men repairing single-track railroad aft...

Photograph of the War in the West. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0670 Title from Milhollen and Mugri... More

Petersburg, Virginia Military telegraph operators at headquarters; ano...

With the allies to Pekin, a tale of the relief of the legations, by G....

Publisher's catalog at end. Also available in digital form.

Panorama of the battlefield, Vicksburg, Miss.

Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The tired soldier - a sketch from life at Petersburg during the siege ...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.242) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[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 Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry play...

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

Soldiers and part of a battery, on the battlefield of Bull Run

Stereograph shows Union soldiers, some on horseback, with cannon, on the battlefield at Bull Run. Probably from the studio of Mathew Brady. E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. probably acquired the negatives in exchange f... More

Siege of Petersburg. 18th Corps, engraving, Library of Congress

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed: Right section, Comp. E 3rd N.Y. Arty. Capt. Ashby. 20 pounder parrots. Pencil sketches of fortifications on verso. Published in: Harper's We... More

[Petersburg, Virginia View of Fort Sedgwick]

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

The British surrendering their arms to General Washington after their ...

Print showing British officers on the right, with Cornwallis presenting his sword, and French and American officers, center and left, with George Washington holding his hat in his left hand. Officers identified... More

Interior of Fort Sedgwick - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing a view of the above ground portion of bomb-proof living quarters in Fort Sedgwick, outside Petersburg, Va. A soldier carries water past a primitively constructed chimney.

[Petersburg, Virginia Dead Confederate soldier with gun]

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Dead Confederate soldier with gun]

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

[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

Rebel gun bearing upon the river

Photograph shows a Confederate gun and artillery from inside Port Hudson overlooking the Mississippi River after the siege in July 1863. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Forms part of: The Ro... More

[Broadway Landing, Virginia Surgeons of 4th Division, 9th Corps]

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

[Broadway Landing, Virginia Surgeons of 4th Division, 9th Corps]

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

[City Point, Virginia Members of General Ulysses S. Grant's staff]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Includes photographer Mathew Brady, standing at far left.

[Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior view, with heavy gun broken by bombardment...

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

[Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior view, with heavy gun broken by bombardment...

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

In the background is the "17 gun Union Battery"...In the foreground is...

Photograph shows the "gopher holes" of Battery 11, known as the "Citadel," the southernmost battery at Port Hudson, after the siege.

[View from defensive works at Port Hudson, Louisiana] / photographed b...

Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV50 ;Port Hudson. "XXXVI-5" written in pencil on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.33)

View from Weitzels lookout & sig[nal] tower; Bermuda hundred looking s...

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed after title: shewing [sic] the Pontoon Bridge, Spring Hill Fort, the course of the Appomattox River & position of Gun Boats, Fort Clifton (rebel), Petersburg in the distance ... More

[Inside the battery, a man stands next to a cannon aimed at the river]

Photograph possibly taken inside Port Hudson after the siege in July 1863. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Dig... More

East views from Port Hudson, 8th Ind. (i.e. Indiana) Marine Battery

Photograph shows view of battery looking north-northwest. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Caption on verso: "East views from Port Hudson, 8th Ind. Marine Batty." Previously identified as "Ea... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Railroad gun and crew]

Photo shows Robert E. Lee's railroad battery. (Source: David H. Schneider, "Lee's Armored Car," Civil War Times, Feb. 2011.) Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

Richmond, Virginia. Captured siege guns at Rocketts

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

Siege of Atlanta / Thulstrup ; fac-simile print by L. Prang & Co.

Union soldiers on horseback, other soldiers at cannon. Copyright by L. Prang & Co., Boston.

[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.

Ordnance Depot at Broadway Landing - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing a row of caissons, mounted and unmounted cannons awaiting shipment in Broadway Landing, Virginia. No. 1075. Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River. Caption contin... 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

[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.

[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.

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier with gun in the trenches of Fort Mahone, near Petersburg, Virginia on April 2, 1865. No. 6175. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 186... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Blandford Church and graveyard]

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

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches

Stereograph showing two dead Confederate soldiers in the trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia, on April 2, 1865. No. 6182. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. A... More

[Petersburg, Virginia Entrance to mine in Fort Mahone, intended to und...

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Military telegraph operators at headquarters]

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

[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.

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

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Hospital stewards of 2d Division, 9th Corps, in ...

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

Sharpshooters 18th Corps - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: Artillery. On a separate sheet of cream paper and in Alfred Waud's handwriting: Sharpshooters on the 18th Corps Front. On some portions of the lines picket fir... More

[Arlington, Virginia Soldiers with 24-pdr. siege gun on wooden barbet...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington.

[Petersburg, Virginia Company F, 114th Pennsylvania Infantry (Zouaves)...

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

[City Point, Virginia Federal supplies deposited on the landing]

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

[Petersburg, Virginia Bomb-proof shelter in Federal lines]

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

[Petersburg, Virginia General view of the commissary department, 50th ...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of 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.

Höchst-erfreuliche Vorstellung der von den Christlichen Armeen ernstli...

Print shows birds-eye view of the city of Ofen [Buda] on the banks of the Danube under siege in 1686. Includes views of troops in battle, explosions and smoke rising from the city with its numerous towers. In t... More

Battle of Turin, 1706 Hugtenburch pinx. ; P. Ayres del. ; Sonne sc. To...

Print shows a view of the battle of Turin, with a cavalry engagement in the foreground and infantry fighting throughout the city in the background. Title from Il Museo Lombardi. Printed at top left: Vol. II. Pr... More

Belager- und Eroberung der Kön. Ungarischen Haupt-Stattt Ofen durch di...

View from the breastworks of Fort Sedgwick, called by the rebel soldie...

Stereograph showing long wooden spikes, chevaux-de-frise, extending from the fortifications of Fort Sedgwick, Petersburg, Virginia.

Plan der Schlacht von Gettysburg am 1, 2 & 3 Juli, 1863.-Plan zur Erla...

Public domain document scan of a map, military, war history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cave life in Vicksburg - A black and white drawing of a man and a woma...

Southern wife praying in makeshift cave home during bombardment of Vicksburg. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 30.

The pulpit, Fort Fisher, N.C. / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive ...

Photograph showing a group of military personnel at the barricade inside Fort Fisher, North Carolina, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander... More

Interior of the rebel works in front of Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg),...

Stereograph showing log and gabion reinforced fortifications inside a Confederate fort near Petersburg. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Fo... More

[Map of the siege of Petersburg, 1864-5 /

Relief shown by hachures. Includes names of some residents in outlying areas. Civil War salted paper maps. Title taken from other version. Names of surveyors and draftsmen have been added by hand in the lower l... More