Aquia Creek Landing, Va. Embarkation of 9th Army Corps for Fort Monroe; photograph is by Alexander Gardner. “On February 5, 1863, Sedgwick was succeeded by Maj. Gen. William F. “Baldy” Smith, and on February 12 the corps was ordered to Newport News, where it encamped for a month.” [IX Corps (Union Army) — Wikipedia] Library [...]

The Battle of Belmont was fought on November 7, 1861 in Mississippi County, Missouri. It was the first combat test in the American Civil War for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the future Union Army general in chief and eventual U.S. president, who was fighting Major General Leonidas Polk. Grant’s troops in this battle were [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 26 The lady in this image is identified as Sabria Clack in the photograph’s information at the Library of Congress, where it is part of the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs.  Given that she is holding an image of William Clack in uniform, this photo was almost [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 25 Title: [Private W.R. Clack of Co. B, 43rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment, with saber, pistol, and small book] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : half-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 15.7 x 12.7 cm (case) Summary: Photo shows identified soldier. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34982 (digital file from original [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 24 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Union first sergeant’s uniform with militia sword and revolver] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.2 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34964 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Access [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 23 Title: [Private Charles H. Bickford of B Company, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as a young boy] Date Created/Published: [between 1850 and 1855] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.1 cm (case) + 1 manuscript. Summary: Photograph shows identified soldier, as a child. Reproduction Number: [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 22 Title: [Roswell K. Bishop of Company I, 123rd New York Infantry Regiment in uniform with holstered revolver] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1863] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.5 cm (case) Summary: Photograph shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-27241 (digital [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 21 Title: [Private Simeon J. Crews of Co. F, 7th Texas Cavalry Regiment, with cut down saber and revolver] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : quarter-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 12.4 x 10.1 cm (case) Summary: Photo shows identified soldier. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34975 (digital file from [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 20 Title: [Unidentified artillery soldier in Confederate uniform and kepi hat] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.2 x 8.0 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32058 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Access Advisory: Use digital [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 19 Title: [Unidentified soldier in 3rd New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers (The Butterflies) jacket with corporal’s chevrons] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 12.5 x 11.3 cm (frame) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-37521 (digital file from original, tonality adjusted) LC-DIG-ppmsca-27521 (digital file from original [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 18 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Confederate frock coat with gold trim] Creator(s): Rees, Charles R., photographer Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.4 x 8.3 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-40604 (digital file from original item, tonality adjusted) LC-DIG-ppmsca-30604 (digital file from [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 17 Title: [Thomas Isaiah Booker in Confederate uniform with Colt navy revolver, book, tin drum canteen, and sign reading Jeff Davis and the South!] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1863] Medium: 1 photograph : ninth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 7.4 x 6.3 cm (case) Summary: Photo shows identified soldier from [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 16 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with Berdan’s Sharps rifle and Colt 1862 Police Model pistol] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.0 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-33426 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 15 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Union uniform standing with Napoleon cannon in front of encampment] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.1 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32130 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 14 Title: [Lieutenant Hiram L. Hendley of Co. A, 9th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, in silver brooch] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : ambrotype, hand-colored ; 5.0 x 3.7 cm (brooch) Summary: Portrait photograph of identified soldier set in brooch. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-33335 (digital file from [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 13 Title: [Unidentified Confederate(?) officer, full-length portrait, standing, with sword in right hand] Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1870] Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-119426 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 6592, no. [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 12 Title: [Unidentified boy in Union zouave uniform with drum] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : half-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 15.6 x 12.5 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34499 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Access Advisory: Use digital images. [...]

Title: [Soldiers from Richmond Grays at execution of abolitionist John Brown in Charles Town, West Virginia] Other Title: Young Confederates off to war. Young Southerners at Richmond making light of war. Creator(s): Dinkle, Lewis Graham, 1829-1906, photographer Date Created/Published: [New York] : [The Review of Reviews Co.], [photographed 1859, printed 1911] Medium: 1 photograph : [...]

  Title: The volunteers in defence of the government against usurpation, 1861 / James Queen del. & lith. ; printed in oil colors by P.S. Duval & Son Ph’a. Creator(s): Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist Related Names: P.S. Duval & Son , printer Date Created/Published: Phila. : Published by James Queen at P.S. [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 11 Almost 10 years ago, this tintype was the subject of a couple of involved NPR articles/podcasts on the image and identifying who the soldier in the Union Zuave uniform was. In the first, Unknown No More: Identifying A Civil War Soldier1, he is identified as Thomas A. Ardies [...]

Title: [Major William Schnackenburg] Creator(s): Metzner, Adolph, artist Date Created/Published: [1861] Medium: 1 drawing on front of sheet: graphite ; sheet 24 x 15 cm. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-51175 (digital file from front of original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: DRWG/US – Metzner, no. 4 (front) (A size) [P&P] Repository: Library [...]

74th Infantry Regiment . Civil War . Fifth Excelsior Regiment; Fifth Regiment, Sickles’ Brigade. This regiment was recruited under the special authority of the War Department, issued to Gen. D. E. Sickles; organized under Col. Charles K. Graham at Camp Scott, L. I., and mustered in the service of the United States for three years [...]

Ten years ago, I created a short video using photographs from the civil war and mixed it with a couple of medleys of civil war music recorded about 100 years ago. All of the photographs are from the U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. _________ Description of photographs: Keedysville, Md., vicinity. Confederate [...]

Title: Battle of Bull Run—July 21st 1861—Federal (Gen. McDowell) … Confederate (Gen. Beauregard) … Creator(s): Kurz & Allison., Date Created/Published: c1889, c1890. Medium: 1 print : lithograph, color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-pga-01843 (digital file from original print) LC-USZC4-1796 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-5454 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: [...]