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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

Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap. [Howlett House, Trent's Reach] [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. A man wearing a dark frock coat sits on the base of a large canon [Brooke rifle] mounted on a swivel base. Numeric notation "XII 31."

GLC05111.01.0380

Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap [Howlett House, Trent's Reach]. [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. A soldiers stands next to a large canon mounted on a swivelling carriage. An embrasured trench cuts through the sand to the canon. In the background is the James. Numeric notation "XII 28."

GLC05111.01.0381

Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap [Howlett House, Trent's Reach]. [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. A Federal soldier stands behind the canon. The gun barrel is raised as if to fire over the parrapet. A heavy rope hangs from the gun.

GLC05111.01.0382

Union siege guns "at park" in Yorktown

Image show a variety of guns, organized in neat rows. A large group of men are lined up in the background. Numeric notation "287," "3" & 9 (in crayon) "101."

GLC05111.01.0384

View of interior of fortifications with large man made mounds [Fort Fisher?]

Possible the interior of Fort Fisher. The mounds are constructed with bricks or sand bags as walls. Artillery guns occupy the places in between the structures. Numeric notation: "XXII 1241."

GLC05111.01.0386

Examining passes at Georgetown Ferry, Mason's Island, Washington D.C.

The examination of a pass on the banks of the Potomac River, just before the Georgetown Ferry pier. One is docked along the river bank with an artillery gun, limber and crew. Another barge slowly crosses the river in the distance. Inscription on...

GLC05111.01.0710

Fifteen Federal Horse Artillery officers. [1861-1865 ca.]

Fifteen officers of the artillery, as indicated by the crossed cannon insignia on their hats, seated or standing in a rough half-moon. Caisson and limber in left background. Inscription on verso: "Group, Brigade Officers, Horse Artillery." Numeric...

GLC05111.01.0711

to Col. Geo. Bomford re: $50,000 being set aside for building (gun?) carriages

Written on stationery of the War Department's Engineer Dept.

GLC01943

[Endorsement on verso of letter from Captain J. Gardner]

In an autograph letter signed, Captain J. [D.?] Gardner writes to M. G. Hudson (possibly Marcellus G. Hudson), Acting Assistant Adjutant General for General Gabriel Colvin Wharton's corps. Gardner requests that several men from his company, now...

GLC01929

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893

The top portion of the page is missing so there is no date. Written in the last days of the war, probably April 1865. Confederate General Hardee informs Confederate Beauregard that "A large number of my command deserted last night - some with horses...

GLC01936

to Richard Caswell

Letter signed as "Baron de Kalb." Writes to Major General Caswell about the Camden campaign. Discusses trouble procuring provisions. Judges that it would not be prudent to travel "not even to Cole's bridge with our whole Body of Troops, for we durst...

GLC01766

to Earl Van Dorn

Confederate General Polk writes to Confederate General Van Dorn to discuss Captain R.A. Stewart's record of service and recommend him for a promotion. Also discusses the request of some Louisiana parishes to raise artillery reinforcements for Stewart...

GLC01883

Collection of Caleb C.E. Mortimer, 3rd regiment, Massachusetts, artillery [Decimalized .01-.23]

Mortimer was Lieutenant in the 3rd Massachusetts Artillery, covering action in the Peninsula campaign, skirmishing, casualties, picket duty at Yorktown, Hanover and New Bridge. One letter from 1861 describes capture of the "Steam gun." Most letters...

GLC01898

[Collection of Orville S. Dewey, 33rd regiment, New York, light artillery] [decimalized]

Nicknamed "Tom" by his family and coming from Buffalo, Dewey served in the army of the Potomac, primarily in Washington at an instructional camp. Many of the letters are addressed to his sister Mary "Mollie" McLean. Dewey stayed in the Army after the...

GLC02161

to Thomas Ward re: the first Union attack on Galveston

Enclosing a duplicate of his letter of Aug. 10 (not included).

GLC02145.19

to Thomas Ward re: notice of Union order to surrender Galveston to avoid bombing

Written on stationery of E. B. Nichols & Co.

GLC02145.22

[Collection of George O. Bartlett, B battery, 1st regiment, Rhode Island, light artillery] [Decimalized .01-.21]

Bartlett came from Rice City, Rhode Island, and saw action at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. His spelling is poor but his writing is descriptive.

The George O. Bartlett collection of Civil War correspondence contains letters and...

GLC02158

[Collection of Charles Nicholson, battery L, 5th regiment, Pennsylvania, heavy artillery] [Decimalized .01- .12]

Charles Nicholson was a Private in the 5th Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Co. L. Other letters were written by another soldier in the same family, to their cousin Alice. Writes about Lincoln's death and a cousin's death in Libby prison. Collection...

GLC02171

to John C. Tidball

Writes a friendly letter to Tidball about how their military circle is breaking up since Tidball is leaving to head the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, and Sherman has left for St . Louis. Praises Tidball's reputation over the years he has known...

GLC02246

[Official ordnance document]

Partially printed document, with printed signature. Treadwell, Captain of Ordnance, informs Captain Albert A. Day (Company K, 20th Michigan Infantry, 9th Corps) that his return of ordnance and ordnance stores for the fourth quarter of 1864 has been...

GLC02249.01

to Edwin M. Stanton

Signed as Major General commanding in the Department of North Carolina. Writes to the Secretary of War to report on the positions and activities of various troops and generals. "From information obtained through our Spies, I am Satisfied that the...

GLC02196

[Collection of Civil War letters from various soldiers & civilians] [decimalized]

Collection of 51 letters, including 24 wardate soldiers' letters, to recipients in Lancaster and York County, Pennsylvania. Written by various individuals, mostly to Isaac Cover (Kover, Coover) and family in Pennsylvania. Most have envelopes....

GLC02197

[Collection of Leander A. Williston, B company, 3rd regiment, Massachusetts, heavy artillery] [Decimalized .01- .60]

Williston was Lieutenant in the 6th Co. Massachusetts Volunteers. Collection includes his appointment as Sergeant in Company 6 of the Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 27 June 1863, cloth map, muster rolls and ordnance reports and correspondence from...

GLC02198

[Appointment of Williston, Quarter Master Sergeant of the 6th Co. Mass. Vols.]

Signed by Capt. A. P. Allen, printed document on "art. vellum."

GLC02198.60

to John G. Walker

Discusses artillery, ammunition, commissions, assignments, and other military matters in the trans-Mississippi Department. Praises General Walker's command.

GLC02218

Papers from Battle of Roanoke Island to end of war re: torpedoes
[decimalized .01-.39]

This collection is composed of 39 items, including correspondence, general orders, legal documents, and a handwritten manual of arms and drilling. These items are largely associated with R.T. Renshaw, a Union sailor from North Carolina, and document...

GLC02254

[Diary of Union soldier, George Herbst] [parts in German]

Autograph manuscript signed. Entitled on the leather boards: "Tagn Luf des Krieges von 1861 bis 1864[.] George Herbst." Contemporary notes appear to date mostly from 1862. Covers all battles in Virginia, the farewell to General George McClellan...

GLC02265

to Thomas W. Ward re: early stages of the Mier expedition

Damaged, missing part of p. 1/2. Written as commander of artillery. Written at San Antonio De Brexar.

GLC02145.01