 | Winslow Homer, "Prisoners From the Front," 1866, oil on canvas; 24 x 38 in. (61 x 96.5 cm)
Copyright Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028-0198. Gift of Mrs. Frank B. Porter, 1922. (22.207). http://metmus.org. All rights reserved. |
 | George Cochran Lambdin, "The Consecration, 1861," 1865. A Northern woman kisses beau's battle sword as he kisses a rose; oil on canvas, 24 x 18 ¼ in. Location unknown. Possibly Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46208; James E. Roberts Fund. |
 | General U.S. Grant being photographed with head clamp, c. 1864 Copyright holder unknown. Probably in Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540. Probably Mathew Brady Studio photo |
 | "House Ruins With Tents, Battle of Seven Days," near Richmond, VA, 1862. "White House Landing, VA, burnt during the Federal evacuation" Mathew Brady Studio photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-01802. |
 | Clara Barton, 1866 Mathew Brady photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-108565. |
 | "Confederate Water Battery, Yorktown," VA, 1862, near Nelson Church Hospital during the siege of Yorktown Mathew Brady Studio photo. In Roy Meredith, "Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady," 1946, Plate 59. |
 | Grant's Wagon Train Crossing the Rappahannock River, Fredericksburg, VA. Pontoon bridge. May, 1864 James Gardner photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-01180. |
 | Major-General Philip Henry Sheridan, 1864 Mathew Brady photo. Negative at US National Archives, Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. NWDNS-111-B-55. "Brady & Co.'s Catalog of Photographs and Stereoscopes of Lieut. Gen. Grant's Late Campaign June, 1864." |
 | President Lincoln at Sharpsburg (Antietam), "Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand," MD, 1862 Alexander Gardner photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-04339. |
 | "Camp of the Sixth N.Y. Artillery at Brandy Station, Virginia, showing Union soldiers in front of log company kitchen," 1864 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-123496 |
 | Members of the Soldiers' Aid Society, Springfield, IL, c. 1863; the women sit with the food and clothing they have prepared for Union troops Chicago Historical Society, Clark St at North Ave, Chicago, IL 60614-6071. |
 | St. Michael's Church, Charleston, SC, 1761 Copyright holder unknown. Charleston Post Card Co., Inc., Charleston, SC. |
 | Negro Union soldiers standing by their cannon. The Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Ave., Chicago, IL 60614-6071. In John Hope Franklin, An Illustrated History of Black Americans, 1970, pp. 54-5. 8.10.5 |
 | Negro recruitment poster during the Civil War. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St., Philadelphia, PA 19107. In Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer, A Pictorial History of the Negro in America, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1956, p. 173. 8.10.5 |
 | "Captains of three student companies, 1861." A voluntary company at the University of Michigan trains for Civil War service. bl#003711. Courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. Any further use of this image requires permission from the Bentley. Copyright University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. All rights reserved. Our thanks to the Bentley Library. In American Heritage, Vol. 21, No. 1, Dec. 1969, p. 30. 8.6.5, 8.10.5 |
 | U.S. Grant rushing to finish his memoirs, with less than a month to live, 1885, Mt. McGregor, NY. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-7607. In Eds. of American Heritage, An American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the U.S., I, 1968, p. 485. 8.10.5 |
 | George Cochran Lambden, "The Consecration, 1861," 1865, detail. A Northern woman kisses the sword of a young soldier about to leave for war. Note the books in the background. Copyright Berry-Hill Galleries, 11 East 70th St., New York, NY 10021. All rights reserved. In Nicholas Cords & Patrick Gerster, "Myth and the American Experience," 1978, p. 264. Our thanks to The Berry-Hill Galleries. 8.10.5 |
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Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, officer of the Federal Army, 1860-65. Collection of Frederick Hill Meserve. Probably Mathew Brady Studio. Acquired as part of a group from the Frederick Hill Meserve Collection, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Victor Building–Suite 4100 MRC 973, Washington, DC 20013-7012. Similar to LC-B8172-6454, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. |
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John C. Frémont (1813-90). "President Lincoln named Frémont commander of the western division of the army, with headquarters in St. Louis, but when Frémont independently emancipated all Missouri slaves in August 1861, in advance of federal policy, Lincoln removed him from his command, and his public life came to an abrupt end." - Mathew Brady Gallery. Location unknown. Text: Mathew Brady Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Victor Building–Suite 4100 MRC 973, Washington, DC 20013-7012. |
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Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, Confederacy, 1863. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-1625. |
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"30,000 Volunteers Wanted," a Union recruiting post in New York City, 1864, before the Draft Riots. George Law painting. Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library Providence, RI 02912. |
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Union Gen. George B. McClellan, Jr., 1861-65. Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1805 Pine St, Philadelphia, PA 19103. MOLLUS ID# 01373. www.suvcw.org/mollus. |
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General Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy. New York Public Library, Digital Library Program, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, 188 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016. digital@nypl.org. Digital Image ID: 1553517. |
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"Savage Station, Virginia. Union field hospital after the battle of June 27," 1862. James F. Gibson photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-00202. |
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Union General Ulysses S. Grant at his headquarters in Cold Harbor, VA, 1864. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ61-903. Title and date from William Frassanito, "Grant and Lee, the Virginia Campaigns," (New York: Scribner's, 1983). |
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"Substitute notices" from a southern newspaper, c. 1861, appealing for substitutes to join the Confederate army. If he had enough money, a drafted man could pay a poorer one to fight in his place. Virginia State Library, 800 E Broad St, Richmond, VA 23219-8000. Copy in John Mack Faragher, et al., "Out of Many: A History of the American People," vol. 1, Brief Third Ed., (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458) 2001, p. 286. |
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African American Union soldiers, c. 1864: "The 12th US Colored Infantry Regiment, Originally called The 3rd Tennessee Volunteers (African Descent). Also called The 1st U.S. Infantry Regiment (Colored), Provost Guard 107th Colored Troops, US Army."
United States Army Military History Institute, United States Army Heritage and Education Center, 950 Soldiers Dr, Carlisle, PA 17013-5021. |
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An African American man waits on a white Union officer. "What do I want, John Henry?," Warrenton, VA, 1862. The officer sits facing the young Black servant, who is holding a bottle and cake(?), as two other soldiers sit and one stands in front of two tents. Was John Henry supposed to guess? Alexander Gardner photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-98249. |
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Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, officer of the Federal Army, 1860-65. Mathew Brady Gallery. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-05008. |
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Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, 1861-5. US National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Rd, College Park, MD 20740-6001. ARC Identifier 528293. |
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Young Southern Volunteers in Richmond: The 1st Virginia Militia or the Richmond Grays, c. 1861. Copyright © Valentine Richmond History Center, Cook Collection, 1015 East Clay St, Richmond, VA 23219. www.richmondhistorycenter.com. All rights reserved. |
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