1862 ca.

Photograph

Title: Railroad depot, Culpepper, Va.

Inscription on verso: "Railroad Station, Culpepper, Va." Railroad tracks, with two trains in background, run between a street of buildings and a large brick house. Two men stand at far left. Numeric Notation on verso: "54."

GLC05111.01.0741

1862 ca.

Photograph

Title: Railroad depot, Culpepper, Va.

Inscription on verso: "Railroad Depot Culpepper, Va." Culpeper railroad depot, with fence in foreground and covered wagons surrounded by buildings and train in background. Numeric Notation on verso: "149."

GLC05111.01.0742

1864 ca.

Photograph

Title: A man surveying the ruins of Hampton, Va.

Inscription on verso: "Ruins of Hampton, Va." A man stands next to the ruins of a chimney amongst the rubble. Numeric Notation on verso: "29."

GLC05111.01.0743

1864 ca.

Photograph

Title: Ruins of the Church at Hampton, Va.

Inscription on verso: "Old Church at Hampton, Va Ruins." A man stands near a tree in front of the ruins of the Church in Hampton, Virginia. Numeric notation on verso: "130."

GLC05111.01.0744

1862 ca.

Photograph

Title: Catlett Rail Station, Virginia, with Federal soldiers lounging on top of box cars next to a building with a group of soldiers on porch.

Inscription on verso: "Catlett Station, Va." Numeric notation on verso: "54."

GLC05111.01.0771

1864 ca.

Photograph

Title: Charles City Court House with trees and two men standing in front.

Inscription on verso: "Charles City Court House." Numeric Notation on verso: "65."

GLC05111.01.0779

1862/09/19

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Col. Moorehead [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 586. Col. Moorehead, 106th Pennsylvania Volunteers, on battle field of Antietam, 19th Sept., 1862."

GLC05111.01.0807

1862/09/21

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: General Caldwell and Staff [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "Photographic incidents of the war. No. 580. Group, General Caldwell and staff on Battlefield of Antietam, 21st September, 1862."

GLC05111.01.0809

1864/12

Taylor, John C., fl. 1864

Photograph

Title: View of Johnsonville, Tennessee [stereocard]

Inscription: "View of Johnsonville, Tenn., the day before its evacuation by Federal troops, in December, 1864."

GLC05111.01.0820

1865/04/02

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: 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 notation on verso: "376."

GLC05111.01.0823

1865 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Government Repair Shop and large group of workers, Washington, D.C. [1865 ca.]

A long white Government Repair Shop stretches across the image with a large group of workers standing on the wooden sidewalk out front. Two men are off by themselves, one of whom appears to be either a soldier or policeman, on the right side of the image near a blurry figure in civilian clothes. Washington became a major center for army services during the war. Numerous government repair shops [some massive in size] employing hundreds of skilled and unskilled workers were established to keep the armies running. Numeric notation on verso: "XXIX" and "836." A very similar photo can be see in…

GLC05111.01.0533

1863/07/07

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882

Photograph

Title: Evergreen Cemetery Gatehouse, Gettysburg, Pa. [July 7, 1863]

Taken by O'Sullivan. Frassanito states that this is the earliest known photograph of the gatehouse after the battle. The artillery earthworks occupied by Stewart's Battery B, 4th U.S. Arty. can be seen in the foreground. Seated in the wagon that is on the Baltimore Pike are a few of the many civilians that would flock to the battlefield shortly after the fighting was over. See GLC 5111.01.0225, .0305

GLC05111.01.0523

1865/01 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior view of the "Pulpit" [earthen rampart]. [January 1865 ca.]

The image shows the earthen bomproof rampart [the "pulpit"] at Fort Fisher with the ocean in the background. Two chimneys constucted out of bricks can be seen along with seven soldiers lounging in and around the shelters. Two men lean on posts by the chimney, two sit on the ground, two more sit on the opposite side and the seventh is visible in the upper right of the image. A row of rifles [stacked arms] runs down the center of the trench. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "XXII" and "535."

GLC05111.01.0526

1863/07/06

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Pa. [July 6, 1863]

Washed out image of the bare, rocky western face of Little Round Top. In the right foreground is the Slaughter Pen, denoted by the large boulders and Plum Run ["Bloody Run"] in the extreme right bottom corner. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Frassanito identifies the photograph as O'Sullivan's. Numeric notation on verso: "319"; "XX 319"; and "VII."

GLC05111.01.0527

1865/04 ca.

Photograph

Title: McLean House and family posed on front porch at Appomattox Court House. [April 1865 ca.]

Three women, two men, and little girl sit on the steps of the McLean house. Half of a seventh person is visible. Inscription on verso: "The McLean House." Photo is attached to board which has an illustration on verso of dogs and cats drinking from a bowl. The name "Fay" appears in the lower right corner of the image. See GLC 5111.01.0280, .0732. Written at the Appomattox Court House

GLC05111.01.0532

1864/10 ca.

Photograph

Title: 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. Captain F.A. Pratt is on the left. Captain E.C. Don is just behind Colonel Abott and Major T.S. Trumbell is just behind General Hunt on his left.

GLC05111.01.0534

1864/02 ca.

Photograph

Title: Officers and men of Co. K, 1st U.S. Cavalry [1st Division, Cavalry Corps], Brandy Station, Va. [February 1864 ca.]

The image shows a three-rowed line of cavalrymen holding sabres, both seated and standing on a slope behind three standing officers. Several tall, thin trees project from the background. Buglers are seated on the left side of the image in the front row, holding their instruments.

GLC05111.01.0537

1864/01 ca.

Photograph

Title: 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 parapet are two destroyed cannons. A man stands next to an the entrance of a bom-proof magazine. In the left background, the stockade wall can be seen. Numeric notation on verso: "196."

GLC05111.01.0538

1862/05 ca.

Photograph

Title: Federal Battery No. 1 in front of Yorktown, May 1862 ca.

The battery well entrenched and six large Parrot rifles peek out above the fortifications. A river appears to run through the far background.

GLC05111.01.0540

1864/06 ca.

Photograph

Title: Improvised Breastworks, Cold Harbor, Va. [June 1864 ca.]

The makeshift breastworks are comprised of a large fallen tree reinforced by numerous branches and sticks.

GLC05111.01.0541

1865/01 ca.

Photograph

Title: 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 Federal soldier stands in the center of the image, leaning against the earthen magazine. Inscription on verso: "Oldway Gardner Coll." Numeric notations on verso: "XXII" and "5-6."

GLC05111.01.0543

1865/01 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: 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

1865/01 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Fort Fisher, N.C. exterior view of outer walls and stockade with man in center. [January 1865 ca.]

The outer walls of the fort extend across the image, bordered at its base by the outer wooden stockade. There is a lone man in the center of the image and a cannon is barely visible between the center mounds of sand of the fortification in the background. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XXII" and "297." Nearly identical photo can be seen in .0549. See GLC 5111.01.0549

GLC05111.01.0545

1865/01 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

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

The image shows a line of sharpened posts that constitute the outer stockade, running along the base of the wall. The stockade reflects the damage it suffered in the Federal taking of the fort. Three mounds of sand and two cannons are visible. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso "XXII" and "572."

GLC05111.01.0546

1865/01 ca.

Photograph

Title: Fort Fisher, N.C. exterior view of outer walls and stockade. [January 1865 ca.] [Copy 1]

The image shows a long line of sharpened posts that constitute the outer stockade. A group of Federal soldiers stand behind the stockade on a mound on the left side of the image. Three cannons are visible, one in between each of the highest mounds. Debris is strewn across the foreground. Numeric notation on verso: "148." See GLC 5111.01.0548

GLC05111.01.0547