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[General Richard Taylor]

Black & white portrait of Confederate General Richard Taylor. Enlarged directly from the original negative by Brady in the Meserve Collection.

GLC00444.02

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

First edition copy of Melville's only book of poetry dedicated to the 300,000 men who died for the Union cause during the Civil War. Printed by Harper Brothers, Publishers, New York. Embossed with stamp of Wm. Young, Bookseller and Stationer, Troy...

GLC00465

[Clement L. Vallandigham]

Pictures Vallandigham in an oval vignette. Accompanied copy of the book "Speeches, arguments, addresses and letters of Clement L. Vallandigham," (see GLC00476.01) which was inscribed to the actor Edwin Forrest, who was also pictured in carte-de...

GLC00476.02

[Edwin Forrest]

Pictures Forrest, an early American actor, seated. Accompanied copy of the book "Speeches, arguments, addresses and letters of Clement L. Vallandigham," (see GLC00476.01) which was inscribed to Forrest by the author, who was also pictured in carte...

GLC00476.03

Worship of the North

Depicts Lincoln in front of an altar with a black idol sitting on a platform with the words "Chicago Platform" on it. A sheet hanging from the platform says "The end justifies the means." Shows a white person being sacrificed in front of it. Henry...

GLC00493.01

Searching for arms

Depicts arrogant Northern soldiers rummaging for weapons through the house of a Southern sympathizer. A woman is holding her scared daughter in the right foreground. The two women are in nightgowns and have wrapped themselves in a curtain to cover...

GLC00493.05

Enlistment of Sickles Brigade

Shows the duplicitous agents of Daniel Sickles recruiting the brigade he raised and equipped himself at considerable expense. A throng of bedraggled men congregate around a Federal officer who holds out a medal and wears a "Colonel Sickle's Brigade"...

GLC00493.06

Buying a substitute in the North during the war

Image comments negatively upon the Northern policy of allowing men to find a substitute to take their place in the draft. Shows a well-dressed and dandified agent with a holstered pistol showing a timid gentleman into a low class pub where the...

GLC00493.07

Stone Blockade off Charleston, S.C.

Depicts the treacherous route into Charleston Harbor with several sunken ships. Size in extent is for the mount. The actual size of the etching is 20.5 x 26.6 cm. Title in pencil on verso.

GLC00493.10

Making clothes for the boys in the army

Depicts three women sitting in a crowded bedchamber, engaged in the entire process of making clothing. On the far left, a woman wearing a bonnet spins the raw material into thread. The thread is then woven into cloth by the woman working the loom. On...

GLC00493.11

Slaves Concealing Their Master From a Search Party

One etching entitled, "Slaves Concealing Their Master From a Search Party," by Adalbert John Volck, political cartoonist and sympathist with the Confederacy. Depicts an enslaved woman, directing mounted Federal soldiers as the enslaver hides in the...

GLC00493.12

Return of a raiding party from Pennsylvania

Depicts the booty of a very successful Confederate cavalry raid. Shows soldiers driving dozens of captured cattle and pigs. A wagon train, possibly full of pilfered goods, snakes in the background. Size in extent is for the mount. The actual size of...

GLC00493.13

Valiant men "Dat Fite Mit Siegel"

Depicts a house being plundered and burned while a woman kneels, begging Federal officers to spare her children from the flames. The officers appear haughty and indifferent to her pleas. The threat of sexual violation is implicit as an officer with a...

GLC00493.14

Tracks of the armies

Depicts a Confederate soldier returning home to find his home destroyed and his wife and dog dead. All of his belongings lay scattered and ruined, while in the distance another building burns. Vultures are perched above, more symbols of death. It is...

GLC00493.15

Formation of guerrilla bands

Foreground depicts an angry figure trying to convince a farmer, who has had his homestead destroyed by Union forces, to take revenge by joining a guerrilla band in the background. The farmer sits with his wife and son among the ruins of what appears...

GLC00493.16

Jennison's Jayhawkers

Depicts a group of Union guerillas, known as Jayhawkers, attacking a Southern homestead. During the war, the Jayhawkers were the Seventh Kansas Calvary commanded by Colonel Charles R. Jennison. A man rides off with a woman on his horse amidst a scene...

GLC00493.17

Smuggling medicine into the South

Depicts a boat laden with medical supplies being unloaded quickly by a group of men, both civilian and military. A gentleman, perhaps a doctor, climbs down from his perch in a tree, presumably from whence he has been waiting for the shipment to...

GLC00493.18

Offering of bells to be cast into cannon

Depicts a pastor and members of his congregation presenting church bells to be used to create weapons of war. The officer who accepts the bells removes his hat in recognition of the reverence of the occasion. Enslaved people are depicted lifting...

GLC00493.19

Albert S. Johnston crossing the desert to join the Southern army

Depicts Albert Sidney Johnston in the right foreground, dressed in deerskin garb with a Native American guide and a ragtag group of men following behind. Like many other Confederate leaders, Johnston was serving in the United States army when war...

GLC00493.20

Gen'l Stuart's raid to the White House

Depicts Confederate cavalrymen under the command of General J.E.B. Stuart descending upon the Federal line only to find one Hezekiah Skinflint, a sutler who had provided provisions, in this case "ale and lager," to the soldiers. Many Southerners held...

GLC00493.21

Gen'l Stuart's return from Pennsylvania

Depicts a line of cavalrymen stopping to allow their horses to rest. The officer at the left of the picture blows a bugle as his horse drinks from a stream. The other horses, some of which have their tongues sticking out, appear tired and thirsty. As...

GLC00493.22

Butler's victim of Fort St. Philip

Depicts a heavily fortified prison where reputable and well-dressed citizens of New Orleans are shown at manual labor, shackled with ball and chain. The prisoners are guarded by members of the local home guard African American Zouave unit, who point...

GLC00493.23

Prayer in Stonewall Jackson's tent

Depicts a scene of quiet piety and great reverence in an army camp. Shows most of the men with their heads bowed in prayer, some weeping. Stonewall Jackson, a man known for his great religiosity, appears to be delivering a sermon to the men. Also...

GLC00493.24

Counterfeit Confederate notes publicly offered for sale in the "City of Brotherly Love"

Depicts a disreputable fellow, cigarette in mouth, motioning toward a broker's office which bears a sign that reads: "Counterfeit Confederate Treasury Notes for Sale. Soldiers under orders to the South supplied with lots to suit at reasonable rates."...

GLC00493.25

Free Negroes in the North

Depicts a scene of urban depravity. Volck is seeking to convey the hypocrisy of the North when it comes to the plight of blacks. The focal point of the sketch is a well-dressed white man who may be Henry Ward Beecher, a leader in the antislavery...

GLC00493.26