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Confederate Soldier killed at Fort Mahone [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "War Views. C.S. Soldier killed by a shell in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers 'Fort Damnation.' This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1965, No. 3177." Numeric...

GLC05111.01.0823

Interior of Fort Mahone [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "War Views. Interior of the Southern Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers 'Fort Damnation' showing Gabions, 'Cheveaux de Frise' &c. This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va, April 2nd, 1865. No. 3219...

GLC05111.01.0839

Military Telegraph Corps Wagon and Tent [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "Photographic incidents of the war. No. 786. Field Telegraph, Battery Wagon and officers tent of military telegraph corps-headquarters Army of the Po[t]omac, 24th June 1864."

GLC05111.01.0842

Mess of Company D, 93rd New York Volunteers [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "Photographic incidents of the war. No. 218. Capt. H. Smith's Mess, Co. D, 93rd N.Y.V., Bealton, Va., August, '63."

GLC05111.01.0852

General McClellan's Headquarters [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 368. Headquarters Gen'l M'Clellan, Camp Winfield Scott, Near Yorktown May 7, 1862."

GLC05111.01.0854

Two wounded soldiers at Fort Sedgwick [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "War Views. Chevaux de frise, and brest works in the Union Fort Sedgwick, called by the Rebels "Fort Hell," showing two wounded soldiers. This view was made the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va, April 2d, 1865. No...

GLC05111.01.0855

Dead Rebel at Fort Mahone [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "War Views. A Dead Rebel soldier, as he lay in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers 'Fort Damnation.' This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865. No. 3179." Numeric...

GLC05111.01.0856

Dead Rebel in Trench at Fort Mahone [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "War Views. A Dead Rebel Soldier, as he lay in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers 'Fort Damnation.' This soldier must have been killed by a fragment of Shell, that exploded close by, as he is covered all over...

GLC05111.01.0857

Rebel Soldier dead in trench at Fort Mahone [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "War Views. A Dead Rebel Soldier, as he lay on the foot passage in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the Soldiers "Fort Damnation." Part of a broken Musket and Bayonet stuck in the bank. The marks and spots on his face are...

GLC05111.01.0859

Confederate Dead on the Battlefield [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "723. Confederate Dead on the Battlefield. This view was taken near Spotsylvania Court House, May 12, 1864, after Ewell's attack on the Federal right. The dead man is one of the Rebel General Ewell's soldiers, just as he fell...

GLC05111.01.0862

Franklin Pierce Indian peace medal by S. Ellis and J. Wellson

7.5 cm in diameter.

GLC08619

Harper's weekly. [Vol. 6, no. 301 (October 4, 1862)]

Includes a printing of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on the third page titled, "THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY." Discusses the Emancipation Proclamation, including an article titled "Slavery Practically abolished." Includes coverage of...

GLC08620

Whalemen's shipping list and merchant's transcript. [Vol. 30, no. 41 (December 24, 1872)]

Vol. 30 no. 41.

GLC08662

New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 25, no. 7528 (May 23 1865)]

Contains coverage of the Lincoln conspiracy trial for Monday, May 22, 1865. Testimony and examinations of Norah Fitzpatrick, William Cleaver, J.L. M'Phail, Dr. Verdi, John Brown (alias "peanuts"), James Maddox, Lieut. Bartley, Col. R.B. Treat, Major...

GLC08722

Vignette bust carte de visite portrait

Possibly retouched or an engraving based on Brady.

GLC00241.01

Camp of the 10th Massachusetts Regt., near Washington [stereocard]

GLC00242.20

Albumen photograph of John Geary in uniform by Henssey & Co.

Geary commanded the XII Corps at Gettysburg. He restored order to San Francisco but failed to do the same as territorial governor of Kansas. After the Civil War he was governor of Pennsylvania.

GLC00235

Full length standing carte de visite portrait, in uniform, with painted backdrop

Signed in ink on recto: "George Studly of Ellsworth."

GLC00241.02

Half-length seated carte de visite portrait of John Wilkes Booth

Imprint of R.A. Miller, Boston, on verso.

GLC00241.05

Hide and Fat Depot for the Government, Cedar Leval, Va. [stereocard]

GLC00242.02

Gen. George Stoneman and staff near Fair Oaks, June 1862 [stereocard]

From Photographic History series of reproduction, ca. 1890.

GLC00242.15

Gen. John A. Dix [stereocard]

GLC00242.17

General Wright, commander of the "Bloody Sixth Corps" [stereocard]

Wright took command of the Sixth Corps in 1864 with the death of Sedgewick.

GLC00242.18

Where General McPherson was killed [at Atlanta] [stereocard]

GLC00242.19

The history of civil war in America

Two volume history of the Civil War, the first volume published during the war. Claims to be "a full and impartial account of the origin and progress of the rebellion." Book is "Illustrated with maps, diagrams, and numerous steel engravings of...

GLC00267.219