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[Promotion of Thomas W. Sherman to Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Regiment of Artillery].

This document is a record of the promotion of Thomas W. Sherman, signed by Abraham Lincoln as President and countersigned by Simon Cameron as Secretary of War. Partially printed from an engraving, with blanks filled in by hand. Accompanied by an...

GLC04741

Articles of Convention between Lt. Gen. Burgoyne & Majr. Gen. Gates

Two clerical signatures for Gates, once to affirm the document and again to confirm that Burgoyne's name is understood to be used throughout. Treaty documents the terms of surrender of Burgoyne's army after its defeat at the Battle of Saratoga by...

GLC04782

Unidentified artillery soldier, 1/2 length portrait, wearing kepi [tintype]

His buttons have been painted gold and the piping around his collar has been painted red (for artillery). Red 5 cent tax stamp on verso, canceled in September 1864 by Bell & Bro.

GLC05111.01.0505

Unidentified Federal battery in battle formation at camp. [1861-1865 ca.]

An unidentified battery. A small squad of soldiers is lined up in front of a tent on the left side of the image holding what appears to be sabres at the position of salute. The battery is aligned in an open formation, battle position with limbers...

GLC05111.01.0513

Black soldiers with artillery guns behind fortifications. [1861-1865 ca.]

Seven black infantrymen stand with cannons behind fortifications. An eighth man is just visible on the left side of the image. In both the far righ and left background are camps with tents. Stamp of the Century company on verso. Numeric notation...

GLC05111.01.0525

Federal soldiers and officers stand around the "Dictator," a massive rail mortar, Petersburg, Va. [October 1864 ca.]

The guns crew and officers stand around the "Dictator," mounted on a rail car. The two officers in the foreground are Colonel H.L. Abbot, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, and General H.J. Hunt, Chief of Artillery of the Army of the Potomac....

GLC05111.01.0534

Fort Fisher interior view of parapet and traverse including cannon in background and flooding. [January 1864 ca.]

Four Federal soldiers stand atop a tall sand parapet. Wooden stairs lead up to the top where a cannon looks over the other side. There is a great amount of flooding on the lower right side of the image and resting by the water at the base of the...

GLC05111.01.0538

Beach head with sand dunes and earthen fort mounted with cannon in the distance. [1861-1865 ca.]

Possibly either Fort Fisher, N.C. or Morris Island, S.C. The image shows a beach head with two cannon balls and other debris An earthen fortification is on the right. A cannon is visible on the far right next to the large sand dune. Inscription on...

GLC05111.01.0542

Fort Fisher, N.C. interior view of transverse and magazine on the land front. [January 1865 ca.]

The center of the image shows a shallow pool of water and a destroyed cannon and carriage. On the left side there is a cannon and two pyramids of satcked cannon balls. Wooden steps lead up to the cannon but only the top few are still in place. A...

GLC05111.01.0543

Fort Fisher, N.C. exterior view of outer walls and stockade. [January 1865 ca.]

In the foreground of the image is a cannon ball resting in the center. Along the base of the wall runs a short line of sharpened posts that constitute the outer stockade. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XXII" and "635...

GLC05111.01.0544

Mounted officer with cannon. [1861-1865 ca.]

Officer on horseback with cannon in background. Numeric notation on verso: "XXXV" and "43."

GLC05111.01.0574

General Sherman and staff at Federal Fort No. 7, Atlanta, Ga. [1/2 stereocard] [1864 ca.]

The image is half of a stereocard. Caption below: "3626. General Sherman and staff." Above: "at Atlanta." The officers form a half circle around a heavy artillery cannon [Parot rifle]. Sherman leans on the breach of the gun. Two men stand in front...

GLC05111.01.0613

Battery of 100 [pounder] & 200 [pounder] Parrots at the Farmhold [sic] House, Yorktown, Va. [May 1862 ca.]

Inscription in blue pencil on verso: "Waud. Battery of 100 & 200 Parrots at the Farmhold [sic] House erected by the 5th N.Y. under Warren." View of four artillery seige guns [most likely Battery No. 1 pointing out over the embrasured walls of a...

GLC05111.01.0394

Petersburg Gas Works and rubble of smokestack. [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. Image of what remains of the Gas Works building with gaping holes, caused by artillery fire, in its walls. The pile of bricks in the foreground is all that remains of the once-famous 80-foot-tall somkestack. Federal...

GLC05111.01.0397

Man standing behind the wheel of a massive gun carriage.

The wheel is twice as tall as the man. A rope is tied to a hook on the wheel's axel. The carriage would have been used to haul large artillery pieces. Numeric notation: "1029."

GLC05111.01.0399

Bomb-proof quarters in Federal lines, Petersburg, Va. [1864-1865 ca.]

Image of a man standing in front of bomb proof quarter, which consist of a door and living quarters cut into a mound of earth. A fence is on the right side of the image, near the shelter. Trees in the background. Numeric notation: "XI-III 1065."

GLC05111.01.0401

Black troops of Ferrero's division, on the eastern front at Petersburg

Inscription on verso "Bombproof quarters in Federal camp. 21 black soldiers and one white soldier posed in camp. Numeric notation: "XI - III 802."

GLC05111.01.0419

Confederate battery at Howlett's house. James River

View of artillery piece on swivel base looking out of a fort over the water. Title from inscription on verso. Also inscribed on verso:" Same as 20. Different view XII." Numeric notation: "XII."

GLC05111.01.0424

Capt. J. C. Tidball and officer near Fair Oaks

Developed from a cracked plate. Inscription on verso. Show five artillery officers posed around a canon. Written near Fair Oaks, Virginia

GLC05111.01.0446

German artillery, Winter 1861

Title taken from inscription penciled in on top right corner of photograph. Image of 36 soldiers gathered around a cannon. A sergeant stands to the right of the canon with his arm raised, as if giving the order to fire. A private to the left of the...

GLC05111.01.0453

[Mortar and light artillery]

Mortar gun with two small bore canons on either side. A stack of cannonballs is on the right. A man leans on the mortar. Two oddly shaped column-like structures in the background. Postwar display of guns.

GLC05111.01.0465

Officers of the 1st Unattached Co. Mass. Heavy Art. (afterwards Co. A, 1st Batt.)

Title taken from inscription on recto. Identified as: Lt. C.E. Niebuhr, Lt. F.E. Boyd, Capt. Stephen Cabot, Lt. C.F. Livermore and Lt. E.W. Hayes.

GLC05111.01.0367

Confederate Quaker Guns at Centreville, Va. [March 1862]

Inscription on verso: "Battle of Bull Run. Confederate Quaker guns at Centreville, Va." Inscription in another hand "F. H. Meserve Collection" Numeric notation: "5430G/2" Image of Union soldiers posed inside a fort with "Quaker guns." The...

GLC05111.01.0374

Fort Darling [Drewry's Bluff, Va.] on the James River, gun emplacement with seige gun. [1865 ca.]

Numeric notation on verso: "XII 55" A Federal soldier poses behind a large artillery piece after that fort's capture. The canon sits on a swivelling carriage and faces out of the fort walls. On the left are stacked ammuntion boxes. Written at Fort...

GLC05111.01.0378

Confederate battery at Howlett House, Trent's Reach, James River. [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. A close view of a large artillery piece [Brooke rifle] on a swivelling carriage aiming out over the fort walls. The James can be seen in the far distance.

GLC05111.01.0379