1863 ca.

Averell, William W., 1832-1900

Autograph note signed

Title: to General

GLC06581.04.02

1863 ca.

Averell, William W., 1832-1900

Autograph note signed

Title: to T.D Porter

GLC06581.04.03

1865 ca.

Weiss, John, fl. 1865

Photograph signed

Title: Richard Taylor

A signed carte de visite portrait of Richard Taylor. Published by John Weiss of New Orleans.

GLC01176.01

1865 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Richard Taylor]

A portrait of Richard Taylor, CSA. Enlarged directly from the original negative by Brady in the Meserve collection.

GLC01176.02

February 10, 1863

Wright, Sereno A., fl. 1862-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mother and Sister

There has been some fighting. Deals have been attempted. There was a proposal in which they said they'd give them the rest of the state if they gave them back all their enslaved people. It is rumored that the water where they are is poisoned since people have been getting sick from it.

GLC02751.23

1862/04/07

Moore, H.P., fl. 1862

Photograph

Title: Negro Quarters, John E. Seabrook's Plantation, Bird's eye view, Edisto Island, SC. April 7, 1862.

Title taken from accompanying text on recto. A dozen slave quarters can be seen in the background. A barn appears in the center middleground and what might be the enslaver's brick house can be seen in the immediate foreground.

GLC05111.01.0245

1862/04/08

Moore, H.P., fl. 1862

Photograph

Title: Fish Pond, John Seabrook's Plantation, Edisto Island, SC. April 8, 1862

Shows three union soldiers, probably officers, in a row boat in the middle of a pond. The plantation master's house is visible in distance on the left hand side of the image. A white gazebo-like structure is on an island in the middle of the pond.

GLC05111.01.0246

1865/04

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882

Photograph

Title: Blanford Church, Petersburg, Virginia. [April 1865]

Negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, published by Alexander Gardner. From Gardner's "Photo. Sketchbook of the Civil War" Vol. 2, plate 85. With text plate attached.

GLC05111.01.0262

1864/06

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882

Photograph

Title: Charles City Court House, rear view. June 1864.

Negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, published by Alexander Gardner. Taken from Gardner's "Sketchbook of the Civil War," vol. 2, plate No. 68. The original text plate is still attached.

GLC05111.01.0263

1865, 1866

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882

Photograph

Title: High Bridge Crossing Appomattox, near Farmville, Va.

[Title continued] "on south side railroad, Va." Negative by Timothy O'Sullivan. From Gardner's "Phot. Sketchbook of the Civil War," plate "No. 98" with text accompanying panel.

GLC05111.01.0268

1865/04 ca.

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882

Photograph

Title: Federal soldiers posed in front of the Appomattox Court House. [April 1865 ca.]

Soldiers posed in front of, and on the steps and porch of the Appomattox. Notes the stacked arms in the foreground. Wilmer McLean and children appear in the center of the photograph. Graphite inscription on verso: "Appomattox Court House." Written at the Appomattox Court House

GLC05111.01.0278

1865/04 ca.

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882

Photograph

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

Graphite inscription on verso: "McLean's House where Grant & Lee signed the capitulation. Wants 20." Posed on the porch is Mr. McLean, Mrs. McLean, along with one another woman, and a small boy and girl. Written at the Appomattox Court House See GLC 5111.01.0532

GLC05111.01.0280

1864 ca.

Roche, Thomas C., fl. 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: View of Linchburg Canal near Rocketts [Richmond, VA]. [1864 ca.]

Canal runs through the center of the image. On the right hand sign, small boats are docked at the landing. A group of men sit in the first boat. In the right center of the image, further off in the background, burnt out buildings are visible. The Capitol building and a church spire can also be seen in the distance. On the left, a barge rests in dry dock.

GLC05111.01.0287

1865 ca.

Roche, Thomas C., fl. 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Richmond hospital. [1865 ca.]

Two Federal soldiers stand guard outside a three story, white, stone building. Men in light-colored frock coats stand in archways in front of the building.

GLC05111.01.0288

1865- ca. [Post war]

Roche, Thomas C., fl. 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Post-war view of Richmond from Gamble's Hill.

Former owner claims the photographer may be Tomas Roche. Taken from a slightly different angle than Gardner's famous 6 April 1865 panoramic photograph which shows the destruction of Richmond. Visible in the distance are the Spotswood Hotel [as indicated by a large banner on the outside of the building], the capitol building, and five church steeples. The foreground includes a barren hill sloping into well kept buildings, most of which are residential. Much of the old district [including many factories and mills] has since been torn down and rebuilt upon or otherwise renovated. Several…

GLC05111.01.0290

1865/04/03

Roche, Thomas C., fl. 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Three images of Confederate dead in the trenches of Petersburg. 3 April 1865.

Three small unmounted albumen images mounted and matted on a single board. The images were originally published as stereoviews by E. & H. T. Anthony. Anthony's titles for the images can be found in William Frassinito's "Grant and Lee: the Virginia Campaigns, 1864-1865. Top image -- Pencil inscription on verso: "245 Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches." Anthony title: "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 a bayonet stuck in the bank. The marks and spots on his…

GLC05111.01.0292

1862/03 ca.

Photograph

Title: Abandoned Confederate trains at Manassas Junction, Va. [March 1862 ca.]

Four Federal cavalrymen are sitting or leaning on posts in the foreground on the right of the image. On the left, multiple railroad tracks lead off to the horizon. There are train cars on the leftmost track which were abandoned by the Confederates upon their evacuation. The track to its right diverges to form two parallel tracks. Farther back, several men on horseback are visible near the center of the image.

GLC05111.01.0563

1863 ca.

Photograph

Title: Brig. Gen. William "Extra Billy" Smith, bust portrait. [vignette] [salt print] [1863 ca.]

Image is attached to a folded cover which has an oval cut out to display the portrait. Inscription on cover: "Brig. Gen. William Smith. CSA. 1796-1887 Gov. of Virginia 1846." Inscription below image: "Gov. Wm Smith of Va." The image has been touched up [painted] for rephotographing. From the Brady Archive.

GLC05111.01.0599

1862/09/19 ca.

Photograph

Title: Long line of Confederate dead on Antietam battlefied, Md. [September 19, 1862 ca.]

Taken by Gardner. The image shows a long line of Confederate dead starting in the center foreground and continuing off into the background in a wide arc. Frassantio believes the location to be near the Mumma farm. Graphite numeric notation, "49" in upper right corner. Formerly part of H.W. Fay's (keeper of Lincoln's tomb) scrapbook.

GLC05111.01.0617

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

1865/04/02

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: 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." Numeric notation on verso: "257."

GLC05111.01.0839

1865/04/02

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: 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 notation on verso: "259."

GLC05111.01.0856

1865/04/02

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: 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 with mud and blood. This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865 No. 3190." Numeric notation on verso: "80."

GLC05111.01.0857

1865/04/02

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: 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 blood oozing from the wound in his head. This View was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865." Numeric notation on verso: "53."

GLC05111.01.0859

1864/05/12

Photograph

Title: 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. There is very little of the 'romance of war' to be found in such scenes as this; the fair face of nature is smeared and stained with the blood of the poor victims of war. Every rod of ground hereabouts has one or more dead soldiers laying on it."

GLC05111.01.0862