29 November 1862

Newspaper

Title: Richmond weekly enquirer. [Vol. 36, no. 201 (November 29, 1862)]

Death of General Mitchell, General McClellan Badly Crippled at Sharpsburg.

GLC05959.73.10

circa 1861-1865

Stemple, David Jr., fl. 1861

Header Record

Title: Lydia A. Bishoff collection of Civil War correspondence [decimalized]

The collection consists of letters written to Lydia Bishoff by various friends and relatives from District four, Preston County, West Virginia. The four primary authors of the collection are John C. Fogelsong, David H. Shafer, Daniel Swisher, and James S. Swisher. The collection also includes 2 Memorial booklets, 3 poems, 14 photographs, and 2 undated letters. Topics include Antietam, Fredericksburg, and anti-emancipation sentiment. The Lydia A. Bishoff collection of Civil War correspondence contains letters written to Bishoff by various friends and relatives from District 4, Preston…

GLC03523.40

circa 1862

Currier & Ives

Print

Title: The Battle of Antietam, Md. September 17th 1862

Color print depicts Union Army "utterly routing" Confederates at Antietam. Caption under title reads: "This splendid victory was achieved by the "Army of the Potomac," commanded by their Great General, Geo. B. McClellan, over the Rebel Army under Lee Jackson and a host of others, utterly routing, and compelling them to a precipitate retreat across the Potomac to save themselves from capture or annihilation." Confederate soldiers' uniforms are green. Print is mounted

GLC02881.31

3 October 1862

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: The President, General McClellan and Suite, On the Battlefield of Antietam

One image entitled, "The President, General McClellan and Suite, On the Battlefield of Antietam" taken by Alexander Gardner dated October 3, 1862. Image is of President Lincoln standing with General George B. McClellan, other generals, and their staff. In order from left, the men pictured are Col. Delos B. Sackett; Capt. George Monteith; Lt. Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer; Gen. George W. Morell; Col. Alexander S. Webb, Chief of Staff, 5th Corps; Gen. George B. McClellan; Scout Adams; Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Army Medical Director; Unknown; President Lincoln; Gen. Henry J. Hunt; Gen. Fitz-John Porter…

GLC03091

1843-1918

Fellows, Enoch Q., 1825-1897

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Enoch Q. Fellows, field and staff, 3rd regiment, New Hampshire, infantry] [Decimalized .001- .111]

Papers of First Lieutenant in 1st New Hampshire Volunteers and Colonel of 3rd New Hampshire Volunteers, and related materials. Contains letters, orders, military papers, and other papers. Includes commentary on the Battle of Antietam.

GLC02745

4 October 1862

Harper & Brothers, 1833-1962

Newspaper

Title: 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 McClellan in Fredericksburg, an image of General McClellan entering the town of Frederick, Maryland, and the Battle of Antietam. Duplicate of GLC08620.

GLC03443

1888

Kurz & Allison

Print

Title: Battle of Antietam

Depicts fighting between Union and Confederate troops near the small stone bridge that crossed the Antietam. Mounted on heavy cardboard backing.

GLC03487

1864

Park, Frank E., 1835-1904

Sketchbook

Title: Camp scenes and sketches of the Andrew Light Infantry

Civil War sketchbook containing thirty-four watercolors and eight black and white pencil sketches. Includes watercolor of Antietam battlefield with skulls and cannon balls. Also depicted are Washington, D.C., Fort Lee, New York, Arlington, Virginia, Fort Smith, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, as well as flowers, soldiers, a flag, among others. With two tintype photographs of Union buglers pasted into the covers. Park came from South Boston and served in the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, initially known as the Andrew Light Infantry, or A.L.I. He enlisted as a private and was discharged as…

GLC03537

1866

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph album

Title: Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War. 2 Vols.

These albums are in the original format, showing photographs taken while in Brady's studio. Depicts Antietam, Gettysburg, Petersburg, etc.

GLC03547

1863-1865 ca.

Header Record

Title: Civil War - photographs including Gardner, Brady, Russell: Gettysburg, Antietam [word processed inventory available]

Photographs by Gardner (8 from Sketch Book and Incidents), George N. Barnard (3 from western campaigns: Chattanooga), Andrew J. Russell (1 Gen. Foster's Line) and 2 anonymous of Brattleboro, VT. There are also two unaccompanied text plates from Gardner's Incidents.

GLC03588

15 May 1864-18 May 1864

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Draft message to the Army of Northern Virginia prior to the Battle of Spotsylvania].

First draft of an address to the troops of the Army of Northern Virginia, written on the verso of (a clerical) telegram to Lee from General John D. Imboden at Sharpsburg. In an effort to rally morale, Lee recounts recent Confederate victories, reminds the men of the cause for which they have taken up arms and the gravity of the current situation, calls upon the memory of fallen comrades, and invokes God's blessing for their cause. Imboden's telegram relays news about engagements in the Shenandoah Valley, including Imboden's stop of General Franz Sigel's advance, which Lee mentions in his…

GLC04429

circa 1870

unknown, fl. 1870

Photograph

Title: Battles and battleflags of the 89th Regiment, N. Y. S. Vols.

One undated albumen print entitled, "Battles and Battleflags of the 89th Regiment, N.Y.S. Vols." Image is a collage composed of two separate images of printed lists of Civil War battles where the New York's 89th Regiment was present, the United States flag and the regiment's own flag. In the images of the flags, the United States flag is tattered at its ends and the regiment's flag has a large hole completely torn into the center, where the United States arms and motto formerly appeared.Battles include: Drury's Bluff, Suffolk, Swift Creek, Camden, Chapin's Farm, Kingsland Creek, Petersburgh…

GLC04558.208

1862-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Antietam Campaign, Roulette spring house. [1862-1865 ca.]

Two men stand on steps that lead down to the front door of a white building. One man holds a cup and the other has his hand outstretched. A horseshoe hangs on the roof. A third man sits on a bench on the left side of the image. Inscription on recto: "Roulette spring house" and "wash." Inscription on verso: "Antietam Campaign."

GLC05111.01.0515

21-22 September 1862 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Lutheran Church in Sharpsburg, Maryland, showing battle damage.

Inscription on verso: "Lutheran Church Sharpsburg, Maryland." The church shows the scars of battle suffered from artillery fire on 17 September 1862. Numeric notation on verso: "134."

GLC05111.01.0753

19 September 1862

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Dead Confederate soldiers and artillery horses on Antietam battlefield, near Dunker Church.

Inscription on verso: "View of Battlefield at Antietam." Dead Confederates and their horses lie in scattered clusters. An abandoned limber and a Federal burial party [far right] can also be seen in the background. Numeric notation on verso: "24."

GLC05111.01.0754

18 September 1862

Photograph

Title: Antietam battlefield, with Federal soldier surveying the field with binoculars from atop a hill, near McClellan's headquarters.

Inscription on verso: "Battlefield-Antietam." Soldier looks over the battlefield the day after the battle, showing reserve artillery stationed on the left side of the image and a Federal soldiers bivouacked on the right. Numeric notation on verso: "80."

GLC05111.01.0755

September 1862 ca.

Photograph

Title: View of the hills around Sharpsburg, Maryland, with the Antietam Creek cutting between them.

Inscription on verso: "View in Antietam." Numeric notation on verso: "81."

GLC05111.01.0756

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Dunker Church at Antietam battlefield, taken after battle damage has been repaired.

Inscription on verso: "Dunkar[d] Church (Antietam)." Numeric notation on verso: "45(916)."

GLC05111.01.0757

19 September 1862

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Dunker Church at Antietam battlefield, with dead artillery horse.

Inscription on verso: "Dunker[d] Church." Variant view of Dunker Church. In other views, the bodies of Confederate soldiers can be seen piled together amongst horse carcases and an abandoned limber. Numeric notation on verso: "48."

GLC05111.01.0758

September 1862 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Hall St., Sharpsburg, Maryland, with St. Paul's Episcopal Church in the distance and Gardner's photographic wagon in foreground.

Inscription on verso: "Sharpsburg-Episcopal Church in distance." View down a road in the town of Sharpsburg, with a house visible to the right and left of the road, and an Episcopal church in the distance. Numeric notation on verso: "38."

GLC05111.01.0759

19 September 1862

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Main St., Sharpsburg, Maryland, with St. Paul's Episcopal Church in the distance.

Inscription on verso: "Principal Street in Sharpsburg." Main Street stetches down a hill and then back up again toward the woods where Gen. Lee's headquarters were located oods far into the distance. Numeric notation on verso: "49."

GLC05111.01.0760

1862-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Miller's House [Sharpsburg, MD.], on Antietam battlefield, with family standing on porch.

Inscription on verso: "Miller's house where Gen. Mansfield fell." Image of Miller's House near Antietam, where Union General Joseph Mansfield was killed. Numeric notation on verso: "40(917)."

GLC05111.01.0766

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Dead soldiers on Antietam battlefield

The image shows numerous dead soldiers lying along a fence on the Antietam battlefield. Inscription on verso: "On the Antietam battlefield." Numeric notations on verso: "149" and "143."

GLC05111.01.0991

September, 1862

Photograph

Title: Army blacksmith at Antietam

Same as #1002. The image shows a busy blacksmith's shop, with what appears to be an African-American smith seated in the center of the photo surrounded by equipment, horses and soldiers. Numeric notation on image: "110." Inscription on verso: "Army blacksmith and forge, Antietam, Sept., 1862." Numeric notations on verso: "110" and "34."

GLC05111.01.1001

September, 1862

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Army blacksmith at Antietam

Same as #1001. The image shows a busy blacksmith's shop with what appears to be an African-American smith seated in the center of the photo surrounded by equipment and soldiers. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "V" and "587."

GLC05111.01.1002