1864, history

Letter from Henry Wright Clarke, West Gloucester, [Gloucester, Massach...

Henry Clarke Wright writes to William Lloyd Garrison asking about his plans to travel to Philadelphia the following week (for the upcoming 30th anniversary of the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society).... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Company D, U.S. Engineer Battalion

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[Map of the environs of Olley Creek near Marietta, Georgia].

Shows troop positions. Title from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S95, 197 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Pencil and pen-and-ink (some... More

Map of the vicinity of Richmond, and part of the peninsula /

Environs of Richmond. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Map illustrating the operations of the army under command of General W...

Shows Union and Confederate works in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. Relief shown by hachures. Gift; Miss Eleanor Sherman Fitch; July 7, 1942. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S181, 127 Indicates c... More

Map of Atlanta and vicinity / - Public domain old map

Shows fortifications, roads, railroads, rivers, and towns. The battles of peach Tree Creek (July 20), Atlanta (July 22), and Ezra Church (July 28) are indicated. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 144.2 Description d... More

Camps at Stevenson Ala. March 4-1864

Naive (self-taught) image with cabins in foreground, men in carriage pulling cannon lower left, tents, cabins and fort in background. Signed lower right: G.H. Blakeslee March 4 - T.E. 1864. Title inscribed in r... More

Engine "Government" [Commodore?] down the "banks" near Brandy, April 1...

Photograph shows a train off the track laying on its side near Brandy Station, Virginia.

Ohio River between Mound City and Cairo.

Scale ca. 1:23,500. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 213 Indicates Fort Cairo, naval depot, and "harbor for powder barges" at Mound City, soundings in feet, roads and streets, and vegetation. Description derived fr... More

North Anna River, Virginia. Soldiers bathing. Ruins of Richmond & Fred...

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[Preliminary sketch of a portion of the Belle Grove or Cedar Creek bat...

Shows fortifications and names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pencil on sheet of paper from notebook, lined on right recto and left v... More

Brandy Station, Virginia. Colonel Thomas Wilson, Chief Commissary, Arm...

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Army repair shop / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive by A. Gardner...

Photograph showing military personnel engaged in various repair activities at the field workshop of the Ninth Army Corps near Petersburg. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Ga... More

Brandy Station, Virginia. Capt. Beckwith's horse, headquarters, Army o...

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North Anna River, Virginia. Chesterfield bridge with Confederate redou...

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Petersburg, Virginia. Field and staff officers of 39th U.S. Colored In...

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Butlers Canal, Dutch Gap - Public domain scenic drawing

Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-65. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.992) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Petersburg, Virginia. General Orlando B. Willcox and staff

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[Vicinity of Petersburg] / Historic map, Library of Congress

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Petersburg, Virginia. Field and staff officers of 39th U.S. Colored In...

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Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia, November, 1864

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Brandy Station, Virginia. Telegraph Corps camp

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Recruiting for the war--scene at the recruiting tents in the park, New...

Group of soldiers, other men and cannon outside recruiting building. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864, March 19, p. 404. Reference copy in LOT 4420-0.

Brandy Station, Virginia. Headquarters, 5th Army Corps

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[Position of Army of Tennessee near Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864].

Shows positions of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Army Corps east of Atlanta and "Rebel conscr. camp" southwest of Decatur. Relief shown by hachures. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Similar map... More

Quarles Mill, North Anna River, Virginia

No. 4199. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. II, pl. 67. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Alexander Gardner (October... More

Central Virginia / Historic map, Library of Congress

Quarles' Mill, North Anna, Virginia / Alex. Gardner, photographer.

Photograph showing Quarles Mill on the North Anna River where soldiers in nearby camps caught fish. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solo... More

Letter from Oliver Johnson, Anti-Slavery Office, New York, [New York],...

Oliver Johnson writes to William Lloyd Garrison remarking that he is not suprised by Garrison's letter, he "felt sure that my faithful showing up of the Cleveland [Radical Republican nominating] party, its plat... More

Petersburg, Virginia. General Orlando B. Willcox and staff

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Pontoon bridge across the James / negative by J. Gardner, positive by ...

Photograph showing a pontoon bridge across the James River at Powhatten Point, which was used by Gen. Grant's army in his march from Coal Harbor to City Point. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of ... More

Levee at Memphis, Tenn., 1864 - A black and white photo of an old town

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A ward in hospital at convalescent camp near Alexandria, Virginia

No. B390. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 7, p. 279". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Fort Sedgwick /, Confederate States of America.

Detailed plan of fort with four cross sections. Sun print. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 542 Description derived from published bibliography. Civil War salted paper maps. AL-10. Available also through the Librar... More

Military map of south-eastern Virginia

Scale 1:200,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 489 Map title appears inside the border in the upper right corner. Indicates 5-mile concentric circles centered on Richmond, roads, bridges, railroads, towns, house... More

[Map of Fairfax and Alexandria counties, Virginia, and parts of adjoin...

Above neat line in right corner: "Recd. Engineer Bureau, April 25th 1864. with letter April 23d '64, fm. Capt. Michler, [signed] J.C. Woodruff, Maj. of Engineers." Map showing the defenses of Washington situate... More

Wagon park, Brandy Station, Virginia, May 1864

No. 268. Forms part of: Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection). Published in: Gardner, Alexander / Gardner's photographic sketch book of the War. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons... More

The United States monitor "Neosho" engaging three Rebel batteries on t...

Published in: Harper's weekly, 1864. Public domain photograph of a navy ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jericho Mill, North Anna River, Virginia

No. 4197. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. II, pl. 65. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Alexander Gardner (October... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Company D, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry

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[Map of Drewry's Bluff, Chesterfield Co., Va.]

Belle Plain[s], Virginia, May 16, 1864, encampment of 2nd New York and...

Horses in foreground; boats in background. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. B815-412.

Historical sketch of the rebellion - Public domain map

Scale 1:5,850,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 49 "Limit of loyal states in July, 1861, limit of territory controlled by U.S. forces July 31st 1863, [and] limit of territory gained from July 31st 1863 to Jan. ... More

Map of the siege and investment of Savannah, Georgia, 5th to 20th Decr...

Map shows the location of Union forces near the Ogeechee River outside of the Confederate held city of Savannah, Ga. The map also depicts the location of the Union fleet on the Savannah River and in the Atlant... More

North Anna River, Virginia. View of log bridge at Quarles mill from so...

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[Empress Carlota and Emperor Maximilian kneel before Our Lady of Guada...

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Sketch of the roads &c near the position of this Div. on the left of t...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S94, 191 Similar to a map in the Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1891-95, p... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Company H, 114th Pennsylvania Infantry

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Knoxville from Mabry's house, looking towards the southwest, March, 18...

Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; December 20, 1985; DLC/PP-1985:644. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe. No. 22. Landmarks labeled on image.

Admiral D. D. Porter - A black and white photo of a man on a boat

Alternate title, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Gift; Col. Godwin... More

Jemison's [sic] Jayhawkers. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Antislavery guerrillas under Charles Jennison attacking civilians in Missouri. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 17.

The operations near Washington--scene of the fight in front of Fort St...

Illustration showing soldiers behind low wooden barricades; the remains of a building burned to the ground; and the smoke from cannon fire in the background. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v.... More

Engine house at City Point, Virginia, September 1, 1864 (Andrew J. Rus...

Photograph shows railroad tracks leading to the engine house at City Point on the City Point and Army railroad. No. 138.

Rebel attack on our gun-boats in the Red River

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 8, 1864 May 14, p. 305.

Breaking Camp, Brandy Station, Virginia, American Civil War Glass Nega...

No. 4165. Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. II, pl. 63. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[Map of the Red River campaign, March 10-May 22. 1864].

Shows the Red River valley in Arkansas and Louisiana, indicates the location of Camp Worth near Logansport, Louisiana, and the battle sites of April 8 and 9, 1864, between Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Surgeons at Finlay Hospital

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Brandy Station, Virginia. Tent of A. Foulke, Sutler at headquarters of...

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Scouts and guides, Army of the Potomac

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Charles City Courthouse, Virginia. Rear view

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Officers of 3rd Battalion, 15th New York Heavy Artillery Fort Woodbury...

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Lemuel Cook, aged 105, one of the survivors of the Revolution

Portrait shows one of the oldest surviving American Revolutionary War veterans. A similar photograph, with hands in a different position, appears in: Hillard, E. B. (Elias Brewster). The Last Men of the Revolut... More

Portrait of brevetted Brigadier General Napoleon Bonaparte McLauglen (...

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[Bombproof kitchen and tents on front line in front of Petersburg, Aug...

No. 806. Title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Mount... More

Letter from Gerrit Smith to William Lloyd Garrison, 1864 Sept[ember] 6

In this work of handwritten poetry titled "Welcome to our guests", Gerrit Smith writes of William Lloyd Garrison, "friend of black & white mankind!" in 12 rhyming stanzas. The poem not only prasies Garrison, bu... More

[Brandy Station, Virginia]. Discussing the probilities of the next mov...

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[Four cameos with portraits inset over the letter M, in the center are...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 4, upper right.

Petersburg, Virginia. Surg. Charles N. Hewitt, 50th New York Engineers

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Map of Amelia Co., Virginia : made under the direction of A.H. Campbel...

"Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virginia Historical Society by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Minis, Sav[ana]h, Ga."--Note on map... More

Brandy Station, Virginia. Headquarters Army of the Potomac (General Ru...

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Map of Dinwiddie County, Va. : surveyed under the direction of A.H. Ca...

Petersburg, Virginia. Surgeons of 2d Division

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[Group of six men, one in Union uniform]

Notation on verso: Joe Reynolds, Capt. Weeks, Dr.[?] Frank, A. Mills, W. Dasasie[?], Geo. Warren. April 1864.

General U.S. Grant & staff in front of Hdq. Cold Harbor, Virginia

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Surgeon John H. Brinton and group of hospital attendants in front of P...

No. 564. Alternate title and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Gift; Col... More

Plan of fortifications at Augusta, Ga.

Pen and ink. Savannah River drawn in blue pencil. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S47, 147 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In pencil at upper right corner: 61. Imperfect:... More

Looking up Appomattox River, from Point of Rocks, December 1864

Photograph showing the channel of the Appomattox River from Point of Rocks.

Rappahannock Station, Virginia. Officers of 50th New York Engineers

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Andersonville Prison, Ga., August 17, 1864. South view of stockade

No. 8216. Hand written on verso: "Vol. VII, p. 119 (top)". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Belle Plain, Virginia (vicinity). Camp of Negro laborers in the Quarte...

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Winter quarters in Army of Potomac near Brandy Station, Virginia, 1864

No. B383. 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

Officers' winter quarters, Army of Potomac, Brandy Station

Two men beside log structure with brick chimney, Brandy Station, Virginia. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 133VA.

Outer line of Confederate fortifications, in front of Petersburg, Virg...

No. B139. Hand written on mount: Mathew Brady in center, hands in pockets. Hand written on verso: orig. neg. in National Archives. Forms part of: Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection).

[Interior view of Rebel fort in front of Petersburg works, manned by C...

No. 788. Title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Mount... More

Knoxville, Tenn., from the cupola of University of East Tennessee, Mar...

Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; December 20, 1985; DLC/PP-1985:644. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe. No. 19. Landmarks labeled on image.

Plan of a fort opposite Paducah, Ky.

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Map of Nottoway Co., Va. - Public domain vintage map

Free Negroes in the North - A black and white drawing of a group of pe...

Satire on the degraded condition of free blacks in the northern United States. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 26.

The Twentieth United States colored troops receiving their colors on U...

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North Anna River, Virginia. View of log bridge at Quarles' mill. Where...

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Petersburg, Virginia. William Johnson a Negro soldier

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Hampton Roads, Virginia. Steamer FORT JACKSON

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Map of Bedford Co. - Public domain vintage map

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Atlanta, Georgia. Confederate fort in front of Atlanta

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Hampton, Virginia. "Slabtown.", American Civil War Glass Negative.

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Rappahannock Station, Virginia. Quarters of field and staff of 50th Ne...

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Plan of the Battle of Monocacy, Maryland, July 9th, 1864.

The map shows the location of troops on either side of the Monocacy River and north into the city of Frederick, Md. This engagement, part of "Early's Washington Raid" took place on July 9, 1864. Early's troops ... More

Brandy Station, Virginia (vicinity). General George G. Meade and staff

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[Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry drilling at Colum...

Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:122). 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 ... More