 | Edward Lamson Henry, "The Old Westover House," 1869, oil on paperboard, 11-1/4 x 14-5/8". In the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 - 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20006. Accession Number 00.11. Gift of the American Art Association. All rights reserved. Our thanks to The Corcoran. |
 | Sphinx, Egyptian Revival, Memorial to Union dead of Civil War, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
Copyright University of Wisconsin Press, 1930 Monroe St, 3rd Fl, Madison, WI 53711-2059. All rights reserved. In Peggy McDowell and Richard E. Meyer, "The Revival Styles in American Memorial Art," 1994, p. 171 |
 | "A Harvest of Death," Gettysburg, PA, July, 1863 Timothy O'Sullivan photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-B8184-7964-A. |
 | David English Henderson, "The Return to Fredericksburg after the Battle," a war-shattered dwelling in the aftermath of battle in the devastated South, Fredericksburg, VA, 1865 Courtesy of Gettysburg National Military Park, 97 Taneytown Rd, Gettysburg, PA 17325-2804. All rights reserved. Our thanks to The Park. |
 | Federal artillery park, view of ordnance for McClellan's Union army near Yorktown, VA, May 1862 US National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408. ARC Identifier: 524501 |
 | The war-damaged Potter home, Atlanta, GA, 1864-5, Union Army photo George Barnard photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. LC-B8171-2717. |
 | Thomas Nast, "Heroes and Heroines of the War, honoring U.S. Sanitary Commission," 1863 Chicago Historical Society, Clark St at North Ave, Chicago, IL 60614-6071 |
 | Private Edwin Jemison, aged 16, from Louisiana, killed in action at Malvern Hill, VA, 1862 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-B8184-10037 |
 | Federal troops in Chattanooga, TN, surrounded by Confederates, 1863; for two months they knocked down houses for firewood and shacks Location unknown |
 | Ruins of Richmond, VA, April 1863 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZC4-7935 |
 | Dead Confederate soldier at Petersburg, VA, April 1865; half of a stereograph pair Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-02539 |
 | Confederate dead gathered for burial, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1863 Alexander Gardner photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-00907. |
 | "Union Dead, Battle Near Devil's Den," slaughter pen at foot of Round Top, Gettysburg, PA, 1863 Alexander Gardner photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-00879. |
 | "Collecting Remains of the Dead at Cold Harbor," VA, April 1863, Union Army photo John Reekie photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-01276. |
 | Embalming building near Fredericksburg, VA, 1863 Mathew Brady Studio photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-01886. |
 | Dead Confederate sharpshooter, Battlefield of Gettysburg, 1863 Timothy O'Sullivan photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZC4-1825. |
 | "Dead in front of Dunker Church, Antietam, MD," 1862 Alexander Gardner photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpbh-03384. |
 | "A Crippled Locomotive" at the Richmond & Petersburg railroad depot. A destroyed train, burned at Richmond, VA, by fleeing rebels, 1865 Mathew Brady Studio photo. In Roy Meredith, "Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady," 1946, Plate 42. |
 | Soldiers with "Whatizzit Wagon," Brady's darkroom, Petersburg, VA, 1864. Group of Company B, U.S. Engineer Battalion; wagons in background Mathew Brady photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-04104. |
 | "Noncommissioned Officers Mess of Co. D, 93d New York Infantry," Bealeton (Petersburg), VA, 1863 Timothy O'Sullivan photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-00815 DLC. |
 | "What Early Left Behind the Stone Wall on Marye's Heights," Confederate dead, Fredericksburg, Va., killed during the Battle of Chancellorsville, May 1863. Capt. Andrew J. Russell photo. US National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. 111-B-514. |
 | Embalming surgeon at work on soldier's body, 1860-65, unknown location Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-01887 |
 | "A Field Hospital Scene," Savage Station, VA, 1862 James Gibson photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-01063. |
 | "Confederate Dead in Fort Mahone," Petersburg, VA, 1865 Thomas C. Roche photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-02553. |
 | "Union Wounded at Fredericksburg," VA, and their nurse, 1863 James Gardner photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpbh-03385. |
 | "Dead Confederate Soldier in the Trenches at Petersburg," VA, 1865 Thomas C. Roche photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-02563. |
 | "Bodies of Confederate Dead Gathered for Burial" at Antietam (Sharpsburg), MD, 1862 Alexander Gardner photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-01094. |
 | "What the Tide of Battle Left, Sharpsburg [Antietam]," Confederate dead in a ditch, MD, 1862 Alexander Gardner photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-01100. |
 | "Remains of the Dead of Chancellorsville," VA, 1863, during Grant's Wilderness campaign Mathew Brady photo. In Roy Meredith, "Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady," 1946, Plate 101. |
 | Richmond, VA, the burned district, April 1865 Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-03711 |
 | Slaves leaving Hampton to go to Fortress Monroe (with the approach of Union troops). In Harnett T. Kane, The Romantic South, 1961, p. 278. 8.10.7 |
 | The lynching of a Negro on Clarkson Street, New York City, during the draft riots, 1863. Harper’s Weekly, August 1, 1863. The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 172. 8.10.7 |
 | View of Washington, D.C. from the Potomac River, 1892, showing the great urban growth of Washington, especially due to the increase in government bureaucracy during and after the Civil War. Currier & Ives. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-1235. In John W. Reps, "The Making of Urban America," Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1965, p. 261. 8.10.7 |
 | Thomas Nast, "Compromise with the South," 1864. The Civil War is shown as having been fruitless. Wood engraving.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ61-1126. Harper’s Weekly, September 3, 1864, p. 572. In American Heritage, XV, 2, Feb. 1964, p. 87. 8.10.7, 8.11.3 |
 | The ravaged city of Charleston, S.C., after the war. "War-ravaged cities of the South....[Charleston after heavy shelling] had to assimilate thousands of newly freed plantation slaves who had been, in Frederick Douglass' words, 'sent away empty-handed...'" Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-03049. In Eds. of News Front, "Pictorial History of the Black American," New York, Year 1968, p. 39. 8.10.7, 8.11.3 |
 | The ruins of Richmond, Va., 1865. The buildings are shells. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZC6-49. In Beaumont Newhall, "The History of Photography," 1949, p. 87. 8.10.7 |
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Dead Confederate soldier lying in trench, Petersburg, VA, 1865. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZC4-7949. |
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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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African Americans collecting the remains of the dead on the battlefield, 1865, near Cold Harbor, VA. John Reekie photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-01276. |
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Group at 1865 dedication of the Civil War monument to the First Battle of Bull Run, VA, 1861, the first major battle of the war. William Morris Smith photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-03773. |
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"Draft Riots in New York - Exciting Scenes During the Reign of Terror," 1863. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Aug. 1, 1863. |
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Draft Riots on Lexington Avenue, New York City, 1865. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 25, 1865. The Gilder Lehrman Collection, New York, "Mr. Lincoln and New York," © 2002-2008 The Lincoln Institute. All rights reserved. A project of The Lincoln Institute under a grant from The Lehrman Institute, 19 West 44th St, Suite 500, New York, NY 10036. |
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"Richmond, Virginia. Group of Negroes ('Freedmen') by canal," 1865. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-00468. |
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"A Harvest of Death," July 1863. Dead Union soldiers lie on the battlefield at Gettysburg, PA. Timothy O'Sullivan photo, in "Incidents of the War." Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-B8184-7964-A. |
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Civil War soldiers' graves near General Hospital, City Point, VA, 1861-69. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpb-01872. |
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