1861-1862 ca.

Photograph

Title: Confederate blockade runner "Teaser" on the James River. [1861-1862 ca.]

Ink inscription on verso: "Naval 20." Graphite inscription on verso: "Confederate blockade runner "Teaser." and "414-XXV." Orange crayon inscription on verso: "164/33" The "Teaser" was captured by U.S.S. Maratanza on July 4, 1862.

GLC05111.01.0345

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Union gunboat off Hampton Roads [?].

Identified per PR's note on verso of mount. Shows the starboard side of a U.S. sloop and several others in the background. The ship flies an U.S. flag and portholes brandishing cannons can also be seen. "71" "175."

GLC05111.01.0347

1862-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Steamer "General Bragg." [1862-1865 ca.]

Long purple ink inscription of W. H. Chamberlain pasted on verso. Chamberlain claims to have spoken to Capt. J. Frank Richardson, who identified this ship as the "General Bragg." However, the inscription has been crossed out and the name "The General Bragg" has been struck on the recto." Graphite inscription on recto "(For the book)." Stamp of Century Company and graphite inscription "VI 83" on verso. The Naval Historic Society identifies this image as beign that of the "General Bragg." She served the Confederacy as the "cottonclad" ram CSS General Bragg in 1862 and was captured off…

GLC05111.01.0348

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Unidentified naval officers and sailors posed on deck of ship.

Same crew on deck but arranged differently in .0350. See GLC 5111.01.0350.

GLC05111.01.0349

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Unidentified naval officers and sailors posed on deck of ship near the wheel. [Copy 1]

Image identical to .0251, but has a gold or yellow tint. Same crew on deck but arranged differently in .0349. See GLC 5111.01.0251 & 5111.01.0349.

GLC05111.01.0350

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Unidentified naval officers and sailors posed on deck of ship near the wheel. [Copy 1]

Image identical to .0250, but has a purplish - brown tone. See GLC 5111.01.0251

GLC05111.01.0351

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait of Col. Phelps of Ohio.

GLC05111.01.0352

1862-1863 ca.

Photograph

Title: Portrait of Maj. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes, 4th Corps on Penninsula. [1862-1863 ca.] [oval]

Keyes commanded the 4th Corps in the Peninsular Campaign [1862] and was made major general in 1863. MI-48

GLC05111.01.0353

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait of Col. Charles Harris, 11th Wisconsin. [1861-1865 ca.]

GLC05111.01.0355

1862-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Officers and enlisted men of an unidentified regiment [possibly, Pennsylvanians]. [1862-1865 ca.]

Approximately 38 Federal soldiers including three line officers posed in a field with unfurled standard colors [U.S.flag].

GLC05111.01.0360

1864-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, Ill. [1864-1865 ca.]

Shows a large group of Confederate prisoners posing in front of the barracks at Camp Douglas, a prison camp located outside of Chicago. What appears to be a fire hydrant can be seen in the bottom center of the image. The image is faded and mounted on muslin cloth. It bears the stamp of the Century Co. on the back and the crop markings on the front match the image used in their Photographic History of the Civil War (reprinted by the Blue and Gray Press). Written at Camp Douglas.

GLC05111.01.0362

1862-1865 ca.

Thomas, George Henry, 1816-1870

Photograph

Title: Thomas as major general, full length standing portrait. [1862-1865 ca.]

On a bluish-gray mount.

GLC05111.01.0364

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Officers of the 1st Unattached Co. Mass. Heavy Art. (afterwards Co. A, 1st Batt.)

Title taken from inscription on recto. Identified as: Lt. C.E. Niebuhr, Lt. F.E. Boyd, Capt. Stephen Cabot, Lt. C.F. Livermore and Lt. E.W. Hayes.

GLC05111.01.0367

1860's ca.

Photograph

Title: Portrait of Reagan, Post Master General, C.S.A., Texas.

Painted or retouched cabinet card size photograph.

GLC05111.01.0368

circa 1861-1865

Photograph signed

Title: Portrait of Captain T. E. Hall.

Inscription on recto reads: "Truly Yours, T.E. Hall, Capt. [illegible] a[ssistant].q[uarter].m[aster]."

GLC05111.01.0370

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait of Captain M. Bell.

GLC05111.01.0371

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Confederate obstructions in the James River, near Drewry's Bluff. [1861-1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. Numeric notation on verso: "XII 1116." Image of two or three sunken boats protruding from the shallow water. These were old steamers that were skuttled by the Confederates to obstruct passage. The top halves of the paddle wheels and other parts of the vessels visible above the water. Written near Drewry's Bluff, Virginia.

GLC05111.01.0376

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: [Stevens] House wherein Genl. Cobb was killed, Fredericksburg, VA.

Title from inscription on verso. General Thomas R. Cobb was mortally wounded on 13 December 1862 at the Sunken road in Fredericksburg. He was carried to this house where he bled to death. Numeric notation "118." Additional inscription (underlined) on verso: "Saber."

GLC05111.01.0383

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Union siege guns "at park" in Yorktown

Image show a variety of guns, organized in neat rows. A large group of men are lined up in the background. Numeric notation "287," "3" & 9 (in crayon) "101."

GLC05111.01.0384

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: View of interior of fortifications with large man made mounds [Fort Fisher?]

Possible the interior of Fort Fisher. The mounds are constructed with bricks or sand bags as walls. Artillery guns occupy the places in between the structures. Numeric notation: "XXII 1241."

GLC05111.01.0386

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: View of fortifications with doors cut into sand mounds [Fort Fisher?]

Two soldiers pose in the front of sand structures and a third man poses in the doorway of the mound on the left side of the image. Numeric notation: "XXII 1236."

GLC05111.01.0387

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: View of fort with sand walls from across swampy field [Fort Fisher?]

A few men are posed on and in front of the fort. Numeric notation: "XXXII 1231"

GLC05111.01.0388

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: View of sand fortification [Fort Fisher?]

A long stairway leads to top of mound, where there appears to be a canon and flag. Blind stamp on albumen paper: "No. 74" Numeric notation: "XXII 1232"

GLC05111.01.0389

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: City Point

Title from inscription on recto. A group of men sit in front of a tent with the no sides. Ships are visible in the distance. Numeric notation in blue crayon or pencil: "152."

GLC05111.01.0390

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Docks City Point, Va.

Title from inscription on verso. Image of river bank with bridge crossing it. Buildings are built on docks over the water in the distance. Remains of brick building visible on the right hand side of the image. Numeric notation: "812 - [struck: XIII] XI - I."

GLC05111.01.0391