Civil War Photographs page 3
333 historic pictures in the Civil War Photographs collection, part of Library of Congress Collections. Each one can be ordered as a print or licensed, and the collection is a starting point for telling stories about the past.
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Washington District of Columbia. Interior of ward in Harewood Hospital (1864)
Washington District of Columbia. The home of the Sanitary Commission (1863)
Washington District of Columbia. Wiard 6-pdr. Gun at the Arsenal (1862)
Washington District of Columbia. Wiard guns at U.S. Arsenal (1862)
William Mackall Chief of Staff à C.S.A. (1860)
Wm. Mackall Chief of Staff Army of Tenn. C.S.A. (1860)
Yorktown (1862)
Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end (1862)
Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Confederate fortifications reinforced with bales of c (1862)
Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Confederate fortifications. (This rampart was occupie (1862)
Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Fortifications. The ditch dug by Cornwallis in 1781 w (1862)
Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Group. Similar to 351 (1862)
Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Topographical Engineers Camp Winfield Scott (1862)
Yorktown Virginia. Captain Perkins Sesesh horse captured at Cornwallis cave (1861)
Yorktown Virginia. Confederate battery JEFF DAVIS (1862)
Yorktown Virginia. Naval battery with Nelson church in background used as a hospita (1862)
Zouave ambulance crew demonstrating removal of wounded soldiers from the field (1862)
Bvt. Brig. Gen. Newell Gleason (1861)
Aquia Creek Landing Va. Wharf with transport and supplies (1860)
James River Va. Sunken Confederate ships Virginia (ram) and Jamestown (1860)
Large group of slaves(?) standing in front of buildings on Smiths Plantation Beaufo (1862)
Officers and non-commissioned officers of Co. J(?) 93d N.Y. Infy. Bealton Va. (1863)
Officers of horse artillery brigade near Culpeper Va. September 1863 (1863)
Officers of U.S. horse artillery brigade near Culpeper Va. September 1863 (1863)
Provost Marshals 3rd Army Corps. March 1864 (1864)
Officers of U.S. horse artillery brigade near Culpeper Va. September 1863 (1863)
Brandy Station Va. Four provost marshals of the 3d Army Corps (1863)
Group of provost guards at headquarters Army of the Potomac (1864)
Hampton Va. Brick chimneys etc. of burned houses (1860)
Hampton Va. Chesapeake Hospital and grounds (1860)
Portrait of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock officer of the Federal Army (1860)
Petersburg Va. vicinity. The execution of William Johnson Jordans farm (1864)
Washington Navy Yard D.C. David E. Herold a conspirator (1865)
Brandy Station Va. Capt. James M. Robertson and staff 1st Brigade Horse Artillery (1864)
Brandy Station Va. Tent of A. Foulke Sutler at headquarters of 1st Brigade Horse Ar (1864)
City Point Va. Tents of the general hospital (1864)
Portrait of Sgt. James W. Travis 38th Illinois Volunteer Infantry U.S.A. (1860)
Portrait of Pvt. George Henry Graffam Company B 30th Maine Infantry. U.S.A. age 18 (1860)
Brandy Station Va. Gen. Rufus Ingalls on horseback (1864)
Albert G. Jenkins Brig. General head-and-shoulders portrait facing right (1861)
Portrait of Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet officer of the Confederate Army (1860)
Portrait of Maj. Gen. George G. Meade officer of the Federal Army and staff vicinit (1865)
Cumberland Landing Va. Federal encampment on Pamunkey River Va.; another view (1862)
Panoramic views of encampment of Army of Potomac at Cumberland Landing on Pamunky R (1862)
Union Army camp showing large tents errected among trees and soldiers posed by row (1861)
Five Civil War soldiers gathered on dirt porch outside home African American youth (1861)
Johnsons mill Appomattox River near Petersburg Va. (1861)
P.J. Osterhaus head-and-shoulders portrait facing left (1861)
Portrait of Maj. Gen. John Newton officer of the Federal Army (1860)
Portrait of Pvt. Levi Miller Ohio Regiment U.S.A. (1860)
Fair Oaks Va. vicinity. Federal battery (1862)
Fair Oaks Va. vicinity. Gen. George Stoneman and staff (1862)
Portrait of Corp. Nailer 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry U.S.A. (1860)
Broadway Landing Va. Surgeons of 4th Division 9th Corps (1864)
Petersburg Va. Chaplains of the 9th Corps (1864)
Petersburg Va. Dead Confederate soldier in trench beyond a section of chevaux-de-fr (1865)
Petersburg Va. Mills on the Appomattox River near Campbells Bridge (1865)
Celestino Portuguese ship captain half-length portrait seated facing left (1865)
Frank Wheaton three-quarter length portrait seated facing left in uniform (1861)
Ruins at Hampton Virginia showing chimneys and man standing (1861)
Portrait of Lt. Bartley Pace Bynum C.S.A. also Chaplain in the Confederate Army (1860)
Bermuda Hundred Va. Photographer at Butlers signal tower (1864)
Morris Island South Carolina. The Beacon House after the struggle for Fort Wagner J (1863)
Bermuda Hundred Va. Officers by their quarters near the signal tower (1864)
Beaufort South Carolina. Negro family representing several generations. All born on (1862)
Beaufort South Carolina. View of Beaufort from the waterfront (1861)
Belle Plain Landing Virginia. Distance view of Belle Plain Landing on the James Riv (1864)
Bow Gun on Confederate gunboat Teazer captured by the Maritanza (1862)
Brandy Station Virginia. Army of the Potomac. Eastern half of the camp (1864)
Brandy Station Virginia. Army of the Potomac. Western half of the camp. Chapel in f (1864)
Brandy Station Virginia. Guard mount of 114th Pennsylvania Infantry. 1st Division 3 (1864)
Chickahominy River Virginia. Military bridge across the Chickahominy built by the 1 (1862)
City Point Virginia. Gen. John A. Rawlins wife and child at Grants headquarters (1865)
City Point Virginia. Transports on James River (1861)
Culpeper Va. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick of the 3d Division Cavalry Corps (1863)
Cumberland Landing Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey (1862)
Emmitsburg Maryland. Farmers Inn and Hotel where our special artist was captured Ju (1863)
Falmouth Va. Lord Abinger (William F. Scarlett 3d Baron Abinger Lt. Col. Scots Fusi (1863)
Fort Morgan Alabama. Ruins of fort. Looking south-west (1861)
Manassas Virginia. Eastern range of Confederate defenses (1862)
North Anna River Virginia. Cavalry crossing Chesterfield bridge (1861)
North Anna River Virginia. Chesterfield bridge with Confederate redoubt in the dist (1864)
Petersburg Virginia. On the parapet of Fort Mahone. (Standing in the center is Lt. (1865)
Washington District of Columbia. Camp of 31st Penn. Inf. (later 82d Penn. Inf.) at (1861)
Washington District of Columbia. Chair occupied by Lincoln when assassinated (1865)
Washington District of Columbia. Wiard gun at U.S. Arsenal. (L to R: Gen. Daniel Si (1862)
Westover Landing Virginia. James H. Childs and staff 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry (1862)
Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Comte de Paris Duc de Chartres Prince de Joinville an (1862)
Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery (protected wi (1861)
Brandy Station Va. Lt. Col. Orson H. Hart A.A.G. of 3d Corps and horse (1864)
Centreville Va. Confederate winter quarters south view (1862)
Culpeper Va. Battery A 4th U.S. Artillery Robertsons Brigade (1863)
Culpeper Va. Men of Battery M (Bensons) 2d U.S. Artillery (1863)