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[The Irish Jig]

GLC05139.03.59

[Tong Church]

GLC05139.03.60

[Waiting For The Third]

GLC05139.03.61

to Alice Hartstuff

re: apologies for a disagreement which happened before he left for San Francisco. Hartsuff complains that "it is hard work doing nothing" in the city and reports that he is distracted by thoughts of his wife whose picture he frequently looks at....

GLC05201.001

to Mary Magie

Written from camp near Franklin. Magie is writing in the doctor's tent and mentions the many sick soldiers who appear at the tent for medicine. He writes about his newspaper business and other men who speculate in food. Magie bought himself a watch...

GLC05241.42

to Owen Horsfall

A list of words which Owen spelled wrong on his last letter, the corrections, and a note that Charles is sending a book of views under a separate cover. Written on a report form from the Alaska Gold Mining Company. (See GLC 5245.10 for the letter...

GLC05245.11

Quarters of men in Fort Sedwick, generally known as Fort Hell. May 1865.

Title taken from accompanying text. Negative by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, positive by Alexander Gardner. Shows the elaborate trenches and earth-works in the fort. Two photography assistants pose in background with light colored frock coats. Published...

GLC05111.01.0258

Detachment 50th N.Y. Vol. Engineers, Pontoon Wagon and Saddleboat. [March 1864 ca.]

Negative by Timothy O'Sullivan. "Incidents of the War" series. Title, imprint and copyright information are printed on both sides of the mount. Image of a pontoon wagon and boat affixed. Sutlers cabin with tent roof surrounded by a log stockade...

GLC05111.01.0267

Tipton's Gettysburg Groups [reunion photograph of Green's 3rd Brigade, 12 Corps], Gettysburg, PA. [Late 19th-early 20th Cent. ca.]

Large group of old veterans wearing civilian clothes and ribbons posed in a wooded area [probably Culp's Hill]. A sign on the center tree reads: "Green's 3rd Brigade, 12 Corps." Part of an old recruitment [?] broadside hangs beneath the sign. A...

GLC05111.01.0301

The Breakwater

Image of two men standing on a breakwater that leads to a light house. Several sailing vessels are visible in the water. A typed note on the mount indicates that the photograph was taken by "Black," referring to James Wallace Black, a noted Boston...

GLC05111.01.0452

Camp of 31st Pennsylvania infantry, and headquarters Graham's brigade

View of large field with the camp of the 31st infantry visible in the center. The 31st was a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers organized in Harrisburg in June 1863 and mustered out in August 1863. Fence runs diagonally across two-thirds of the...

GLC05111.01.0456

Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge, photo from nature by G.N. Barnard

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Two trees appear in sharp focus in foreground. The camera is elevated and shows a landscape of the terrain below the ridge. Orchard Knob was the site of a battle that took...

GLC05111.01.0457

The crest of Mission Ridge, photo from nature by G.N. Barnard

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Top of a hill with a road running across in the foreground. Landscape with a tree on the left and a tree stump on the right. Missionary Ridge had served as a Confederate...

GLC05111.01.0458

Battle ground of Resacca, Ga. No. 4

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Entrenchments in the foreground with distant view of small town or village. Wagon tracks criss-cross across the image. The sky has been double-printed. Resaca was the site of a...

GLC05111.01.0459

Buzzard Roost. Ga. Photo from nature by G.N. Barnard

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Large road in the foreground is littered with tree debris. Logs lie in piles on either side of the road. A man sits on a fallen tree trunk on the right side of the road...

GLC05111.01.0460

Mission Ridge from Orchard Knob

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Missionary Ridge visible in the distance. A brush-covered landscape occupies the area between the entrenchments and the ridge. Orchard Knob was the site of a battle that took...

GLC05111.01.0462

Naval Heroes

Maquette comprised of 7 cartes de visite of naval admirals who served in the Union Forces during the American Civil War and 2 separate oval pieces of scalloped paper inscribed with the words "Naval" and "Heroes." Each carte de visite is pasted on...

GLC05111.01.0467

Generals of Departments

Maquette comprised of 7 cartes de visite of Union Army generals who served in the American Civil War and 2 separate oval pieces of scalloped paper inscribed with the words "Generals of" and "Departments." Each carte de visite is pasted on scalloped...

GLC05111.01.0468

[Group portrait of General John Grubb Parke and 4 Union officers]

Union General John Grubb Parke is seated in the center and is surrounded by 4 Union officers. Parke assumed command of the Union Army's IX Corps in 1863. On the far right sits Charles Greely Loring, Sr., who served as the inspector general of the IX...

GLC05111.01.0469

[Large portrait of General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks]

Vignette bust portrait of Union General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks. Uniform has been heavily retouched. Prior to his service in the Union Army, Banks served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1856 to 1857 and Governor of Massachusetts...

GLC05111.01.0470

[Portrait of photographer David Knox]

Vignette bust portrait of photographer David Knox. At the start of the American Civil War, Knox worked as an assistant to photographer Mathew Brady. He later began work for photographer Alexander Gardner, under whose direction he shot various...

GLC05111.01.0471

[Vignette of Henry Slocum in civilian clothing]

Vignetted half-length standing portrait of Union general Henry Slocum, Sr. in Napoleonic pose. Clothing, hands, and parts of face heavily painted over. Water stains at the edge. Slocum led and participated in several campaigns throughout the American...

GLC05111.01.0473

[Seated portrait of Andrew Johnson]

Full-length seated portrait of Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States. Johnson is seated next to a small round table with a statue on it. The same chair and table are also featured in several Gardner photographs of President Lincoln...

GLC05111.01.0475

Alexander Gardner's camp with two assistants next to log cabins. [1863-1864 ca.]

Alexander Gardner's camp - photgraphing maps for the army in the field. See Mathew Brady and His World, page 207. Two men are seated in front of a log cabin with a tent streched over it as a roof, one in its doorway and one on a high table. Also...

GLC05111.01.0522

Headquarters of General Mott, 2nd Div., 3rd Corps. [1861-1865 ca.]

Nine officers and enlistedmen stand in front of a log cabin with a chimney made from barrels. Behind them, two men hold the [2nd Division] 3rd Corps flag, a triangular flag with a white diamond in the center. There are five contraband men in the...

GLC05111.01.0558