1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: The Swamp Angel

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "The celebrated Gun with which Gen. Gillmore threw the first shell into Charleston. Taken at the Brooklyn Navy yard, by permission of Commodore Paulding. Weight 42,500 lbs., with 100 lbs. of powder carries a ball weighing 450 lbs. five and a half miles."

GLC05137.192

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Camp Life, Army of the Potomac

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. A group of men around a large pot cooking on a campfire. Front labeled "Cooking in the Army". On back: "Stirring the Pot." Shows men lined up waiting for food while a group of men are cooking in a pot over a camp fire.

GLC05137.193

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Gymnastic Field Sports

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. "The Human Pyramid." Six men making a pyramid by standing on each others shoulders. Other men lounge in the grass around them.

GLC05137.194

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Warming up, out on Picket

Bierstadt Brothers, New Bedford, Mass., photographers. Men around a campfire, warming their hands. Caption on front: "Warming up, out on Picket." Hand colored. Same outdoor area as 5137.178, "Picket guard on alert, near Lewinsville, Va."

GLC05137.195

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: The Amateur Barber

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Man getting a haircut with five others standing around.

GLC05137.196

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Embalming the Dead

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Label on front: "Embalming the Dead." Caption on verso: "Dr. Richard Burr, Embalming Surgeon, Army of the James." Autopsy table looks like a door placed on two barrels.

GLC05137.198

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Weighing out the Rations

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Commissary Stores at Camp Essex. One man weighing food, a second man cuts bacon, and a third man writing.

GLC05137.199

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Scene in the Hospital (leg amputation)

No identification. Label on front: "Scene in the Hospital." Zouave soldiers helping a doctor with a leg amputation. Handwritten on verso: "Hospital Scene at Fortress Monroe, Va." Not the same as 5137.201

GLC05137.200

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Scene in the Hospital. (arm amputation)

No identification. Label on front: "Scene in the Hospital." Zouaves soldiers helping a doctor prepare for amputate an arm. Doctors kit visible ion a table in the foreground. Handwritten on verso: "Hospital Scene at Fortress Monroe, Va." Not the same as 5137.200

GLC05137.201

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Camp Life, Army of the Potomac. Taking it Easy

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. "Taking it Easy." Large number of men sitting around posing for the camera. Some have climbed on top of buildings and sit in trees in order to be in the photograph.

GLC05137.202

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Camp Life [militia musicians in camp?]

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. A group of soldiers, possibly musicians, with several men in top hats and suits standing in front of a tent. Uniforms on soldiers are light with dark strips on seams of pants and dark accenting on jacket. Two well dressed civilians on the left.

GLC05137.203

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Camp Life [militia unit?]

No identification. Label on front. "1668 War Scenes. Camp Life." A regiment of soldiers in a field in marching formation. Officers wear dark uniforms and the soldiers wear light uniforms with dark stripes on the seams of the pants, white gloves and non-regulation hats.

GLC05137.204

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Camp Scene, 44th Regt. Halls Hill, Virginia, Butterfield's headquarters....

C. A. Palmer. A group of soldiers among their tents. Label on back: "Camp Scene, 44th Regt. Halls Hill, Virginia, Butterfield's headquarters in distance." Label on back includes information for the developing of the negative.

GLC05137.205

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: The Battlefield of Bull Run

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Soldiers and part of a Battery, on the Battlefield of 'Bull Run.'" One cannon in place and it appear

GLC05137.207

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Soldiers posing in front of building

Nineteen soldiers in an empty building, possibly a train station. Soldiers are wearing light pants with light stripes on seams and waist coats.

GLC05137.208

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Soldiers posing for group portrait in a field

A group of soldiers in a field posing with guns and knapsacks.

GLC05137.209

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Large group of soldiers lined up in a curve, one man wearing a medal

Twenty-eight soldiers visable in the photograph. The men are lined up single file with a gradual curve so that the men at the left hand side of the photograph is very close to the camera and the men on the right is far away. The soldier fifth from the left is wearing a medal.

GLC05137.211

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Soldiers in camp, debris in foreground

Group of soldiers in camp. Debris in the foreground. Many of the men are not wearing jackets.

GLC05137.212

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Regiment lined up in front of brick building

Graphite inscription "Photo by Cole an Sellers." A large group of soldiers outside a brick building. "Gasworks Feneibles Co. A. 1861" in center and "Phila. Gas Works, Point Breeze" on one side. "10/05/1861 Co. A. City Gas Works Feneibles."

GLC05137.213

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Camp on the Peninsula

Handwritten on back: "Camp on the Peninsula" Seemingly endless rows of tents and soldiers milling among them. Clothes are draped over a tent in the foreground on the left hand side of the photograph.

GLC05137.214

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Picket Guard with Prisoners, near [Lewinsville]

Label on front: "Picket Guard with Prisoners, near . . . ." Rest of caption has been cut off but area is the same as GLC05137.178 and GLC05137.195. Two men in civilian clothes stand with a three enlisted men behind them and three officers in front of them.

GLC05137.215

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Camp Life, Army of the Potomac -- Taking It Easy (copy 2)

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. A copy of GLC05137.202, but without label on front.

GLC05137.216

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Women visiting camp and sitting near tent with a group of soldiers

No identification. Two women sitting outside a tent, holding an umbrella to shield them from the sun. Seven soldiers are under the tent.

GLC05137.217

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Group portrait of soldiers and civilians in front of tent

A large group of soldiers outside a tent. Two civilian men are on the left hand side of the photograph, one of them is wearing a white "lab coat." Uniform styles of the men vary.

GLC05137.218

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Planning strategy

Group of eight soldiers, probably all officers, sitting around and looking intensively at a table. A man on the right-hand side of the photograph wears a medal.

GLC05137.219