troops

Sketch of Forts Clinton & Montgomery, stormed the 6th Octob. 1777 by t...

Scale ca. 1:11,700. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows routes of troop movements and military units. LC Maps of North America, 17... More

A poem on the late distress of the town of Boston. With some remarks o...

Positive Photostat.; Verse.; Not in Ford.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephem... More

At a General Assembly of the Governor and company of the Colony of Con...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 3, Folder 41a.

Sketch of the engagement at Trenton, given on the 26th of December 177...

Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Includes "Explanation." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1267 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ... More

A plan of the Narrows of Hells-gate in the East River, near which batt...

Scale ca. 1:2,400. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by shading. In upper margin: no. 6. Includes "References." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1154 Available also throug... More

Richard Stockton to Thomas Jefferson, August 19, 1776, New Jersey Conv...

Plan of the operations of General Washington, against the Kings troops...

Scale ca. 1:113,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Shows area from Newtown, Pennsylvania to Kingston, New Jersey, with routes of British and American forces. Based on manuscript no. 61a in Library of ... More

Plan of the operations of General Washington against the Kings troops ...

Public domain scan of a 17th-18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

In Congress. April 14, 1777. Resolved, That from and after the publica...

A topographical map of the northn. part of New York Island, exhibiting...

Scale ca. 1:20,000. Hand colored. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes descriptive index. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2; 700

A Topographical Map of the Northn. Part of New York Island : Exhibitng...

Comprende la parte septentrional de la isla neyorquina de Manhattan

Plan of the operations of General Washington, against the Kings troops...

Scale ca. 1:113,000. Hand colored. LC copy trimmed to border. Relief shown by hachures. Shows area from Newtown, Pennsylvania to Kingston, New Jersey, with routes of British and American forces. Includes tables... More

A survey of the city of Philadelphia and its environs shewing the seve...

Scale 1:14,400; 400 yards to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading. Annotated: John Montresor, chief engineer. Map sections individually titled: Fort Mifflin on Great Mud Island... More

A topographical map of the northn. part of New York Island, exhibiting...

Scale ca. 1:20,000. Relief shown by hachures LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1160 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2

A plan of the attacks against Fort Miflin on Mud Island which surrende...

Plan of the operations of General Washington against the King's troops...

Scale ca. 1:113,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Shows area from Newtown, Pennsylvania to Kingston, New Jersey, with routes of British and American forces. LC Maps of North... More

[Disposition of British troops, with fortifications north of Fort Knip...

Scale ca. 1:10,600. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Shows military unit members. "No. 31." Stamped on label on verso: Montresor. Includes table "Cantoonments between Fort Knypehausen and... More

State of New-York, An act to amend an Act for regulating impresses of ...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 110, Folder 9.

Virginia General Assembly, November 27, 1779, Resolution on Benefits f...

Resolution on Benefits for Virginia Troops in the Continental Army

[Penobscot River and Bay, with the operations of the English fleet, un...

Scale ca. 1:46,000. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north to the right... More

Thomas Jefferson, March 1780, Memorandum on Virginia Troops in Contine...

Memorandum on Virginia Troops in Continental Army; with table

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of representatives ... Wherea...

Evans 16859.; 2565 C 13 20 May 44 Rec. R. B. June 1944. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Port... More

State of New-Jersey. An act for compleating the quota of troops belong...

Not in Evans.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 99, Folder 5.

James Innes, James Barron, and George Lyne, September 1780, War Board ...

War Board Memorandum on Virginia Troops; with table by Thomas Jefferson

In Council, March 30, 1781. Sir. The act of October 1780 for recruitin...

On verso: Small drop of red sealing wax. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 179, Folder 2a.

A sketch of New London & Groton with the attacks made on Forts Trumbul...

Scale ca. 1:21,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading and land form drawings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1027 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

Thomas Jefferson, February 1781, Report on Virginia Troops by County

Report on Virginia Troops by County

Count de Rochambeau, French General of the Land Forces in America Revi...

Anonymous, British, 18th century Public domain scan of French 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

To the worshipful the County Court of Gentlemen, The last General Asse...

Evans 31505.; On verso: 18 75 cents Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 180,... More

Hideyoshi and His Troops Leaving Nagoya Camp (Mashiba Hideyoshi kō nag...

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The British troops firing on the Americans at Lexington

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Brown, S E.

A Cavalry Encounter between Turkish Troops and the Troops of the Austr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of armed forces, cavalry, infantry, 18th-19th century war, military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

I. A. Cole, et al to Thomas Jefferson, July 23, 1807, Volunteer Troops

Schedule of monthly pay, subsistence and forage, of troops in actual s...

Title.; Imprint 2.; On verso , copy 1 : 8 1 00 ; on verso , copy 2 : Col. Jhon ambler 19 th Reg. T Richmond. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and ... More

The troops disembarking to attack Fort Oswego, under the command of Ge...

Seascape drawing shows British sailors leaving their ships and rowing toward Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. The 2nd battalion of the Royal Marines, under Lieutenant General Sir George Gordo... More

Passage of the Delaware, in Dec. 25th, 1776, by the American troops un...

Print shows an advertisement for the painting "Passage of the Delaware" that was "on exhibition at Sully & Earle's Gallery of Paintings, No. 169, Chesnut Street, nearly opposite the Museum, Philadelphia." The a... More

Abstract of provisions, issued from the to the troops of the United St...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 3 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 174, Folder 8. Copy scanned: 2

Sketch of the action on the heights of Charlestown June 17th, 1775 bet...

Public domain document scan of a map, military, war history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A bivouack in safety or Florida troops preventing a surprise

Another parody of Van Buren administration efforts to end the long and costly Second Seminole War in Florida. The War Department was regularly subjected to public and congressional attacks for cruelty, waste, a... More

Review of Texas troops - A drawing of a large group of people on horse...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1845 Jan. 4. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Officer of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders Reading to the Troops, Edinbur...

In 1843 Hill and Robert Adamson formed a partnership and established a studio at Rock House, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland, where Adamson was in charge of photographing and the chemical processes and Hill wa... More

Map of Upper & Lower California showing the military stations and dist...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[General Élie Frédéric Forey, commander-in-chief of French troops in M...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 7, upper right. On recto: Disdéri Phot., Déposé. On verso: Disdéri Photographie de S.M. L'Empereur, 8 Bo... More

A circumstantial account of an attack that happened on the 19th of Apr...

Positive Photostat.; A British account of Battle of Lexington.; Battle of Lexington. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Prin... More

Indian troops: a halt for pani from "Cassell's Illustrated History of ...

This image has been taken from scan 000167 from volume 02 of "Cassell's Illustrated History of the Russo-Turkish War, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by us... More

Nizam, or Regular Troops. Kanka

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jefferson Davis in uniform with sword in front of painted backdrop sho...

In album: U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period, leaf 5, lower left.

[2 illus.]: 1. Nicaragua - General Walker landing troops at Fort Casti...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 1, no. 23 (1856 May 17), p. 356. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - Walker, William, 1824-1860.... More

Nicaragua - 2 illus.: 1. Troops landing at Virgin Bay, en route to Cos...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 1, no. 19 (1856 Apr. 19), p. 297. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - Walker, William, 1824-1860... More

Chalons Encampment: Maneuvers on October 3 (Camp de Châlons: manoeuvre...

Public domain photograph - landscape, 19th-century albumen print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sunday morning mass. Camp of 69th N.Y. SM

Photograph shows Father Thomas H. Mooney, Chaplain of the 69th Infantry Regiment of New York State Militia and Irish American soldiers at a Catholic Mass at Fort Cocoran, Arlington Heights, Virginia on June 1, ... More

[Troops on the road] - Public domain drawing

Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.322) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

C.G. Pride, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Photo shows Colonel George G. Pride, volunteer aide-de-camp to Ulysses S. Grant (Source: U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center). Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative,... More

C.G. Pride, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Photo shows Colonel George G. Pride, volunteer aide-de-camp to Ulysses S. Grant (Source: U.S. Army Heritage and Education). Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Civil war photograp... More

Colonel E.H. Wright, Aide-de-Camp - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of two men in uniforms. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camp Dennison : taken from Old Aunt Roady's Hill /

Bird's-eye view. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.) 318.2 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 19-87

Key West, Fla. Jan 14 60, garrisoned by U.S. troops. Fort Taylor

Includes sketch of interior of tent. Title inscribed above and below image. Sketch of tent inscribed with color indicators. Formerly Waud no. B-68. Possibly by William Waud. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919... More

Lt. Colonel E. McK. Hudson (Aide de Camp)

Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov Forms part of: Civil war photographs... More

Lt. Colonel J.C. Audenreid, Aide-de-Camp

A black and white photo of two men in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Map of that portion of the Battle Field of Antietam occupied by the tr...

Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the Potomac River

Lt. Colonel J.C. Audenreid, Aide-de-Camp

Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 3757. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is ava... More

The retreat of the sixty thousand Lincoln troops

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

We will prove ourselves men - 127th Regt. U.S. Colored Troops

Regimental flag depicting African American soldier standing next to Columbia holding a flag. On verso: D.B. Bowser - Artist - No. 481 North 4th St. Philada. Photograph of painting by Bowser. In album: [U.S. arm... More

Lt. Colonel E. McK. Hudson (Aide de Camp)

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sic semper tyrannis - 22th Regt. U.S. Colored Troops

Regimental flag depicting African American soldier bayoneting a fallen Confederate soldier. Photograph of painting by Bowser. In album: [U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period / John White... More

[Sketch of military rank epaulets, bust portrait, and outline of ships...

Title devised. Inscribed on sheet, from top to bottom: Capturing men at a spring; Liberty fraternity E[t]c; Two girls on horseback-; My prisoner; Safe guard; camp smoke ho-; Pontoon at falling waters; Antietam;... More

Rather die freemen than live to be slaves - 3rd United States Colored ...

Regimental flag depicting African American soldier and Columbia holding an American flag between them. On verso: D.B. Bowser - Artist - No. 481 North 4th St. Philada. Photograph of painting by Bowser. In album:... More

Topographical Sketch of the Battle Field of Stones River near Murfrees...

Kentucky and Tennessee

Presented by a committee of ladies of Philadelphia. Oct. 1863 3rd Unit...

American eagle as emblem of the 3rd United States Colored Troops. On verso: D.B. Bowser - Artist - No. 481 North 4th St. Philada. Photograph of painting by Bowser. In album: [U.S. army officers and other person... More

General Francis Marion & the British officer

Francis Marion talking with British officer in forest camp. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Landing of Troops at James Island, South Carolina

Photographic Records Made By The National Archives

Colonel E.H. Wright, Aide-de-Camp - Public domain portrait print

Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov Forms part of: Civil war photographs... More

Sunday Morning Massachusetts. Camp of 69th N.Y. SM

A black and white photo of a group of people. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sketch of the Site of the O[pe]rations of the 10th, 11th, & 12th, July...

Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay

[A general and his staff reviewing troops in the field]

Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.368) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

A Rebel general startled in his camp by the beautiful and unexpected d...

Illustrations show (top) a Confederate general startled by apparitions of Northern soldiers in the sky above his camp; (bottom) contrasting views of Union soldiers depicted by "...the artist of the Mobile Adver... More

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B904. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Non-commissioned officers, 19th Iowa Infantry, exchanged prisoners fro...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sunday morning mass in camp of 69th N.Y.S.M.

Photograph shows Father Thomas H. Mooney, Chaplain of the 69th Infantry Regiment of the New York State Militia and Irish American soldiers at a Catholic Mass at Fort Cocoran, Arlington Heights, Virginia on June... More

Co. I, 6th Vermont Infantry - Camp Griffin, Virginia

No. 4125. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 8, p. 64 - 65". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Non-commissioned officers, 19th Iowa Infantry, exchanged prisoners fro...

Title from negative sleeve. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov Forms pa... More

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Six Union soldiers labeled G.H.S., Capt. D Farr, Addison Brown, and C...

Photographs show portraits of three identified soldiers in uniforms: Captain Dennie W. Farr of Co. F and Co. C, 4th Vermont Infantry Regiment; Lieutenant Colonel Addison Brown of Co. F, 4th Vermont Infantry Reg... More

Camp of 31st Regt. Pennsylvania Vols. hdq. General Graham's Brigade

Inscribed on negative: Murfreesboro. Copy of original photograph in LOT 13412 (H). Photograph copyrighted by Mathew Brady in 1861 as a part of series: "Brady's incidents of the war."

[Ship deck with sailors and cannons]

Photograph possibly by George H. Houghton, photographer of other photographs in this album and fellow resident of Mead's in Brattleboro, Vermont. Houghton worked as a photographer at Camp Griffin and in the Tid... More

Castle Pinkney [i.e. Pinckney], Charleston, S.C. Garrison of South Car...

No. 5141. Hand written on verso: "See Miller, vol. 1, page 89". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Camp kitchen, gelatin silver print during American Civil War

Part of Brady Handy Collection. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B900. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

War views -- Army of the Potomac -- the way they cook dinner in camp

Photograph shows five Union soldiers, including one African American soldier, sitting and eating in front of tents. No. 2057. Photographer's name from same photograph in New York Public Library Digital Collect... More

Swearing in of Capt. Smith's artillery boys at Camp Smith

Photograph shows Union artillery regiment camp tents and a group of soldiers in the distance, Camp Smith, Cairo, Illinois. Title from pencil inscription on item. Photographs possibly taken by Munn & Faul. Purch... More

Camp of 30th Pennsylvania Infantry during American Civil War

No. B150. 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

[Unidentified soldier in Union shell jacket and forage cap with handgu...

Case: Rinhart, no. 69. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljunion

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B956. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

7th N.Y. State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B899. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Camp of 27th U.S. Colored Infantry

Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 4096. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Union soldiers, in camp, posed in front of log buildings]

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 and salt, w... More

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. 905. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Review of the volunteer troops in Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island,...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Feb. 23, pp. 216-217. Mrs. Pickens is Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens, third wife of Gov. Pickens of S.C.; identification based on date of event depicted (M. K... More

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B937. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B952. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.