circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Culpepper Courthouse with prisoners on balcony.

The image shows a group of people standing in front of an unidentified municipal building, with three people hanging clothes from the balcony. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "IV" and "523 (?)"

GLC05111.01.1053

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Camp in front of a large white building

The image shows a small camp in front of an unidentified large white building surrounded by a lawn and trees. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "IV" and "537."

GLC05111.01.1054

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Flooded road

The image shows a single horseback rider crossing a flooded road, with an open field in the background. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "960."

GLC05111.01.1055

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Pontoon bridge with barn

The image shows a dilapidated barn with a pontoon bridge across a river to the right and horses and covered wagons in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "747."

GLC05111.01.1056

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Farmyard near Antietam

The image shows broken down farm buildings and wagons. Inscription on verso: "Antietam (C.C. Buil.)" and "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "000."

GLC05111.01.1057

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Bombed brick building

The image shows a bombed brick building with debris scattered on the ground. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "X" and "774."

GLC05111.01.1058

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Women in front of a house

The image shows a group of seven white and two black women standing in front of a white pickett fence surrounding a two-story house.

GLC05111.01.1059

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Artillery and earthworks with wooden buildings

The image shows three buildings behind earthworks with pyramids of cannonballs. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "57."

GLC05111.01.1061

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Planing mill at Petersburg

The image shows a bombed planing mill in the background with an open road in the foreground. Inscription on verso: "Petersburg, Va. Planing mill showing effects of bombardment." Numeric notations on verso: "98" and "1104."

GLC05111.01.1062

April 1865

Photograph

Title: Bombed railroad depot, Charleston

The image shows a railroad depot in ruins after bombardment. Inscription on verso: "Ruins of Northeastern RR Depot" "Charleston S.C. Apr/65." Numeric notations on verso: "3453" and "41."

GLC05111.01.1063

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Inside of the bombed Dunlop House, Petersburg

The image shows the rubble inside a house after being hit by a Union cannon. Inscription on verso: "Where one of Grant's Messengers Called. East Parlor Dunlop House Petersburg." Numeric notations on verso: "24" and "42."

GLC05111.01.1064

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Nature scene with river

The image shows a view looking down onto the banks leading to a river in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "1123" and "XII."

GLC05111.01.1065

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Bombed building on the Appomattox River.

The image shows a bombed building on the far bank of the river with a man standing amidst the rubble on the near bank, a fence leading into the water on the far right, and more buildings in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Appomattox River above the City" and "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XI-IV" and "1092."

GLC05111.01.1066

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Fort Moultrie, Charleston after bombardment.

The image shows a main wall of Fort Moultrie and the surrounding building ridden with bomb damage. Charleston Bay is visible in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Fort Moultrie from Sullivan's Island." Numeric notation on verso: "99."

GLC05111.01.1067

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Soldiers at Pickett Station

The image shows officers and various soldiers amidst bomb debris in front of a house. Inscription on verso: "Pickett station near Atlanta, Ga." Numeric notations on verso: "134" and "114."

GLC05111.01.1068

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Bombed Confederate fort

The photo shows eight soldiers standing amidst rubble and cannons in a Confederate fortification. Inscription on verso: "Confed. Fortifications Yorktown, Va." Numeric notations on verso: "2367" and "40."

GLC05111.01.1069

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Confederate fortifications

The image shows one man sitting outside a bombproof shelter amidst empty boxes. He is in the center of earthworks and fortifications. Inscriptions on verso: "Conf. Fortifications" and "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XI-III" and "1074."

GLC05111.01.1070

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Railroad depot, Nashville

The image shows approximately 9 railroad engines with various other cars assembled at a brick depot, with a wooden building in the left background. A line of people are standing outside the depot on the right edge of the photo. Inscription on verso: "Railroad depot at Nashville, Tenn." Numeric notation on verso: "148."

GLC05111.01.1071

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Wagon train river crossing

The image shows one covered and one uncovered wagon, with six horses each, waiting to cross a river, with three other uncovered wagons already in the water. There is a large camp on the riverbank in the distance, and people and horses line the entire visible riverbank. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "710."

GLC05111.01.1072

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Town scene with church

The photo shows the front entrance of a brick church with a white steeple. Two men stand on the street corner outside the church. A man sits in a single-horse wagon in the right foreground, he is looking back at the church over his left shoulder. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "1000."

GLC05111.01.1073

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: House, yard and surrounding street

The image shows a large brick house with a large yard inside a wrought-iron fence. A lone white horse is tied to a pole outside the fence. Dirt paths lead along the fence. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "1127."

GLC05111.01.1074

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Confederate fortifications

The photo shows at least three bombproof shelters with surrounding earthworks. One man in a suit and hat stands in the center of the fort. Inscriptions on verso: "Gardner" and "Conf. Fortifications." Numeric notations on verso: "XI-III" and "1052."

GLC05111.01.1075

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Nature scene, possible earthworks

The image shows various trees beyond which may be earthworks in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XIV" and "1056."

GLC05111.01.1076

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Bombed stone bridge

The photo shows two men sitting and one standing on a stone arch bridge that spans a river. The bridge has suffered damage from bombs. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "1179."

GLC05111.01.1077

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Confederate fortifications

The image shows a man in a suit and hat standing amidst bombed earthworks. Inscriptions on verso: "Gardner" and "Conf. Fortifications." Numeric notations: "XI-III" and "1075."

GLC05111.01.1078