1896

Photograph

Title: Tomb of Gen. Grant, Riverside Drive, N.Y

Alfred S. Campbell, Elizabeth, NJ, publisher. Small grave site of Grant before the building of his mausoleum.

GLC05137.159

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: The Great $45,000 Sword, Which Grant Got

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Caption: "The Great Metropolitan Sanitary Fair, The Great $45,000 Sword, Which Grant Got."

GLC05137.160

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Falmount Park, Gen. Grant's Headquarters

Identification on front. Small cottage in field. Building used as headquarters by General Grant at City Point and moved to Falmount Park near the Skuylkill River. [Similar image to 5137.163.]

GLC05137.162

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Grant's Cottage at Falmount Park

Identification handwritten on back. Stamp on back: "Wm. Senter, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry & Spectacles, 34 Exchange St. Portland, Me." Grant's headquarters at Falmount Park. Inscription on verso: "Fairmount [sic] Park. East side Skuylkill Used as Gen. Grant's headquarters at City Point, Va. afterwards brought here." [Similar image to 5137.162.]

GLC05137.163

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Gen. Grant's favorite field horse Cincinnati

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Taken at City Point, Va.

GLC05137.165

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Stonewall Jackson's War Horse Old Sorrel

Foster, Richmond, Va. Oversized card. Handwritten identification on back: "Old Sorrel. Stonewall Jackson's war horse he was on this horse May 2nd 1863 when he was mortally wounded and died the 10th 39 years old. The horse died at Soldiers Home Richmond Va. 36 years old."

GLC05137.166

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md

By W. M. Chase. Eight officers in uniform

GLC05137.167

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Skating Party. U. S. Naval Academy and Annapolis Views

Chase's Celebrated Collection of National Views. Woods, Print. Baltimore. Extensive description of collection on back. Shows a group of children ice skating.

GLC05137.168

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Life on the Ocean

A group of men gathered around a table on board a sailing ship. Man in center at far end of table is dress in civilian clothes.

GLC05137.169

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Va [a battery lined up at City Point]

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Reserved Battery's Light 12 Pounders on the Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Va." A long row of cannons and limbers lined up on a plank sidewalk near railroad tracks.

GLC05137.170

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Va [single cannon with black guard]

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "A 12 pound brass Cannon, Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Va." Black soldier stands guard near a solitary artillery piece.

GLC05137.171

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Soldiers' Graves near the General Hospital, City Point, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Hand colored. Seemingly endless rows of graves. Only the burials in the distant background have grave markers.

GLC05137.172

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Government Road, City Point, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Government Road[,] City Point, near the Mail Dock, Va. Army wagons in the foreground." View taken from a hill. Horses, wagons and farm buildings near the road.

GLC05137.173

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: City Point, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Warf scene showing ships both in the water and at dock. Horses and wagons stand near the docks, ready to take the cargo from the ships.

GLC05137.174

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Gen. Grant's Rail Road, City Point, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Gen. Grant's Rail Road, City Point, Va., looking North." Freight cars marked "USMRR" in a busy railroad yard. Ships visible near dock. Unloading docks lead right to railroad tracks.

GLC05137.175

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Picket guard on the alert, near Lewinsville, Va

No identification. Six soldiers posed as if they hear the enemy near by and are ready to be attacked. Same outdoor area as 5137.195.

GLC05137.178

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Interior of Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla

Florida Photographic Printing and Publishing Company, Jacksonville, Fla. Shows interior of a fort with several pyramids of cannonballs on the ground, men in the square and on the fort walls.

GLC05137.182

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Scared, rock landscape with houses in the distance

No identification. Shows a large rocky field with a road running left to right in the middle-distance and several buildings in the background.

GLC05137.183

November 1864

Photograph

Title: Dutch Gap Mud Scow

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Dutch Gap Mud Scow, sunk by a Rebel Shell on Thanksgiving day." The year 1864 is handwritten in following the caption. Shows a sunken boat with two men standing on wooden planks.

GLC05137.185

circa 1861-1865

Benecke, R., fl. 1862-1863

Photograph

Title: [The steamer Robert E. Lee]

"R. E. Lee" is handwritten on front, and "Steamer Robt. E. Lee" is written on back. Circa dates based on Civil War.

GLC05137.186

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: The Thirteen-inch Mortar "Dictator"

Taylor & Huntington, Sole owners of the Original War Views, Hartford, Conn. Caption includes an extensive description of the Dictator, which was mounted on a special flat car so that it could be moved from one site to another and a defense of the prices which the company charges for its stereocards.

GLC05137.189

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Cavalry members in front of tent with Ku Klux Klan sign on tent

A group of men sitting in a campground. Above the tent in the background is a sign reading "Ku Klux Klan. Case. Bowers. Bacon. Rocwell. Olmested. " Cavalry insignia between the names. Uniforms of soldiers hand-colored. Possibly a reunion photograph? On sides are advertisements for "Camp, Photographer, Hartford, Conn." and "Rooms, Charter Oak Bank Building, Cor. Asylum and Trumbull Sts."

GLC05137.190

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Plugged up artillery piece mounted on wooden planks

Pease Brother, Lee, Mass., publishers. A man stands next to the cannon.

GLC05137.191

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: The Swamp Angel

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "The celebrated Gun with which Gen. Gillmore threw the first shell into Charleston. Taken at the Brooklyn Navy yard, by permission of Commodore Paulding. Weight 42,500 lbs., with 100 lbs. of powder carries a ball weighing 450 lbs. five and a half miles."

GLC05137.192

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Camp Life, Army of the Potomac

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. A group of men around a large pot cooking on a campfire. Front labeled "Cooking in the Army". On back: "Stirring the Pot." Shows men lined up waiting for food while a group of men are cooking in a pot over a camp fire.

GLC05137.193