1862 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: George Washington Custis Lee

Quarter length portrait of George Washington Custis Lee as General (3 stars).

GLC07074

1864/11/08

Autograph letter signed

Title: From "I.D.S." (member of Genl. William Quarles Staff)

re: gossip about General's movements.

GLC07064.02

1862 ca.

Waud, Alfred R., fl. 1862-1865

Painting

Title: Charge of Meagher's Irish Brigade... Fredericksburg

Black and white ink and gouache painting of the Battle of Fredericksburg on 13 December 1862. It depicts Meagher's Irish Brigade (the 63d, 69th and 88th NY, 115 PA and 28 Mass.; shown carrying a battle flag with Irish harp) charging Marye's Heights. The flag was carried in this battle by the 28th Mass. In the upper right on a crest, Marye's house can be discerned (with the columns). At the base of the house are smoke and gunfire flashes, marking the location of the Confederate infantry in the sunken road. Meagher's brigade was shattered in the charge. The painting also shows Brig. Genn.…

GLC07065

20 September 1865

Waud, Alfred R., fl. 1862-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Josephine Waud re: experiences with Army of the Potomac; Chancellorsville

A long letter to his sister concerning his experiences in the Army of the Potomac. "We fought for three days against Lee and 50,000, and owning to the stupidity of our General 'Fighting Joe Hooker' lost the Battle and between 30,000 and 40,000." He also adds: "I took the train to Frederick where our party exchanged the iron for flesh blood horses and rode to the Battle of Gettysburgh." Includes envelope [from another letter?] and albumen photograph of Waud.

GLC07066

1864

Barnard, George N., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: Gen. W.F. Barry [&] Gen. W.T. Sherman Before Atlanta

Image of Generals William Farquhar Barry and William Tecumseh Sherman and their staff gathered around an artillery piece at Federal Fort No. 7 near Atlanta, Georgia. The background is blurred and composed of rolling, empty fields. According to the Library of Congress the men pictured are, from left: Major L.M. Dayton, Lt. Colonel E.D. Kittoe, Colonel A. Beckwith, Colonel Orlando M. Poe, General Barry, Colonel W. Warner, Colonel T.G. Baylor, General Sherman, Captain, G.W. Nichols, an unidentified major, Colonel C. Ewing, and Captain J.E. Marshall. A note on the mount reads "M.O.L.L. Mass from…

GLC07067

1861 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: Nathan G. Evans

Title on mount. Photograph inlaid on cabinet card sized mount, possibly cut out of an album. Evans is a Brigadier General in this photograph.

GLC07068.01

1861 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: W. C. Wickham, Brig. General

Quarter length bust portrait of William C. Wickham on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07068.02

1861 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: C. M. Wilcox, Brigadier General

Half length portrait of Cadmus M. Wilcox.

GLC07068.03

1861 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: Samuel McGowan

Quarter length bust portrait in uniform. Photograph on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07068.04

1861 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: Harry T. Hays, Brig. General

Bust portrait of the bearded Confederate General Harry Thompson Hays. Photograph on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07068.05

1865/04 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Va

Shows factory buildings, with two men standing (facing away from the camera), in the center foreground

GLC07069.01

1865/04 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: View of Crenshaw's Mill, [Richmond, Va.]

Shows mill on a river, with a masonry bridge at the center of the image. Ruins of buildings on banks of river.

GLC07069.02

1864 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: View of Chimborago Hospital, Richmond, Va.

Distant view showing barracks, with Black man holding crutches sitting in the left foreground, facing away from the camera. Title from pencil note on verso.

GLC07070

1865/03/02

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: Oval albumen bust portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

Signed on the mount and dated by Grant as Lt. General. at City Point, Va. However, the vignetted image probably may have been taken 1862-63 because it shows Grant as a Major General with only two stars. (Image dimensions 20.4 x 15.7 cm.)

GLC07071

1862 ca.

Photograph

Title: John B, Hood, General

Photographic bust portrait of "the Iron Boar" John Bell Hood showing three stars. Photograph likely taken while Hood was in command of the Army of Tennessee. Photograph on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07072

1863 ca.

Photograph

Title: Fitzhugh Lee

Bust portrait of Fitzhugh Lee as a Major General. Photograph on cabinet card size mount.

GLC07073

April 1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of General Robert E. Lee]

3/4 length bust portrait of Lee. Variant of Meredith p. 61 (which has full image). This photograph is one of the series which Brady took at Richmond after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia.

GLC07075

1862 ca.

Photograph

Title: George E. Pickett

Photographic bust portrait in uniform as Major General.

GLC07076

1865 ca.

Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902

Photograph

Title: Civil War photographs, album of 117 large format prints, with 20 small prints

Album of 117 large format albumen prints, plus 20 smaller prints, mounted back to back on thick card with letterpress or manuscript labels.

GLC07077

1861/06/17

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

Letter signed

Title: to George B. McClellan re: use of steamboats to carry troops down Mississippi

GLC07060.01

1864/05/02

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Wilson re: requesting promotions for Generals Ingalls, Rucker and Allen

GLC07060.02

1863/04/07

McCauly, Jefferson, fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to master re: slave inquiring about health of wife and other family members

Written on blue paper by a slave (probably traveling with Confederate officer) to his master. Location name is illegible

GLC07049

1863/11/30

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Rene Beauregard (his son) re: hope

"Never think that 'All is lost' when there is still the least ray of hope left...our cause stands on 'Right & Justice' and must triumph." Written on stationery of the Department of South Carolina.

GLC07050

1865/04/27

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

Manuscript document signed

Title: Farewell to his troops one day after Johnston's surrender

"The day was when I was confident that this parting would be under far different and auspicious circumstances... but circumstances which neither the courage, the endurance and the patriotism of our armies could overcome leave turned my brightest anticipations...into bitter disappointment." Addressed to Lieut. A. J. Toutant A.D.C.

GLC07051

1888/08/07

Buell, Don Carlos, 1818-1898

Autograph letter signed

Title: to E.T. Lawsing re: answering inquiries on Shiloh

"In case of a battle on Monday without my command, Genl. Grant would without doubt have been defeated."

GLC07052