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

1862/11/13

Photograph

Title: Portrait of Maj. Gen. E.V. Sumner, on steps of a house. [November 13, 1862]

Edward Vose Sumner was made major general for his service in the Peninsular Campaign of 1862.

GLC05111.01.0354

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

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

GLC05111.01.0355

1862 ca.

Photograph

Title: Lieut. Col. Herman Haupt and three staff members. [1862 ca.]

Assigned to work on the Military Rail Roads by the army in 1862,

GLC05111.01.0356

1863 ca.

Photograph

Title: Maj. Gen. McPherson and staff, in front of a large house.

With a rubber stamp "12256." With ink numbers on the mount keyed to a description on back listing everyone: 1. Capt. Conklin, AQM; 2. Lt. Col. Cox, C.S.; 3. Lieut. Knox commissary of muster [?]; 4. Lt. Col. W. T. Clark AAG; 5. Capt Gile [?] aid de Camp; 6. Capt Hickenlooper, Chief Engineer; 7. Major General McPherson; 8. Major Boncher Medical Director; 9. Capt Steele aid de Camp; 10. Major Willard, aid de camp & Picket officer; 11. Col. Strong, acting Inspector General. McPherson became the only Union Army commander of the war to die in battle--he was killed in the Battle of Atlanta in…

GLC05111.01.0357

1862/04 ca.

Photograph

Title: Head Quarters, 4th Regt VT Vols., Warwick Creek Va. [April 1862 ca.] [salt print]

Title from ink inscription on the mount. Shows three Federal officers in front of an open tent. Before being mounted, the salt print appears to have been folded into quarters, as indicated by the crease marks along the center.

GLC05111.01.0358

1863/11 ca.

Photograph

Title: Hooker and staff at Raccoon Mountain [near Lookout Mountain], TN. [November 1863 ca.]

From the Chattanooga Campaign. Shows 12 officers in front of three cabins. Two of the cabins are made of logs, one of which has a canvas roof while the other has a roof made of wooded shingles. The other cabin is made of planks. Hooker stands in the center and two men to his right is Gen. Butterfield.

GLC05111.01.0359

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

1864/08

Photograph

Title: Military telegraph operators at City Point, Va. [August 1864]

Published in Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol 8, p. 361, which identifies five of the people in the image.

GLC05111.01.0361

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

1863/09

Photograph

Title: General Meade, and others seated and standing outside of tent, Culpeper, VA. [September 1863]

Meade sits in a chair with a group of officers in front of an open tent. Standing on Meade's right is General French, followed by General G.K. Warren [seated]. To Meade's left are Generals Hunt, Humphreys, and Sedgewick. Pencil note on verso: "329-VIII. Generals of the Army of the Potomac"

GLC05111.01.0363

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

[1862-1865 ca.]

Thomas, George Henry, 1816-1870

Photograph

Title: Thomas as major general, 1/2 length seated portrait. [1862-1865 ca.]

On a bluish-gray mount.

GLC05111.01.0365

[1862-1865 ca.]

Thomas, George Henry, 1816-1870

Photograph

Title: Thomas as major general, close-up profile portrait. [1862-1865 ca.]

On a bluish-gray mount.

GLC05111.01.0366

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

1858 ca.

Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875

Photograph

Title: Portrait of Breckinridge with uniform painted on. [1858 ca.]

The large format image shows Breckinridge in generals uniform that has been painted over his civilian clothes.

GLC05111.01.0369

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

1864/03

Photograph

Title: Scouts and guides of the Army of the Potomac, Brandy Station, VA. March 1864.

This large group includes two black contraband wearing white aprons in the center-left of the image and a third young black contraband squatting on the far right. Some of the soldiers wear cavalry jackets. Others in the group appear to be civilians because of their dress. Behind a field of crops is a brick house. Number "102" scratched in the negative. A nearly identical image except with the young black boy squatting in the first row can be seen in .0121. See GLC 5111.01.0121.

GLC05111.01.0372

1862/03

Photograph

Title: Ruins of Henry House, Manassas Battlefield. [March 1862]

Inscription on verso: "Henry House." Numeric inscription on verso: " 320 I." Image of Union soldiers posed among the ruins of the Henry House, following its destruction in July 1861 during the First Battle of Manassas. Extensive damage done to tree standing on the right.

GLC05111.01.0373

1862/03

Photograph

Title: Confederate Quaker Guns at Centreville, Va. [March 1862]

Inscription on verso: "Battle of Bull Run. Confederate Quaker guns at Centreville, Va." Inscription in another hand "F. H. Meserve Collection" Numeric notation: "5430G/2" Image of Union soldiers posed inside a fort with "Quaker guns." The position was taken by the Federals after the Confederates evacuated it. "Quaker guns"--logs-- were often employed in deserted sections of a line to deceive the enemy into thinking a postion was more heavily defened than it really was. Zoauve in the foreground holds a bed roll [blanket] wrapped in a gum blanket that is slung over the shoulders. Crop…

GLC05111.01.0374

1862/09/21

Photograph

Title: Graves of members of the 51st N.Y. Vol. killed at Burnside's Bridge, Sept. 21, 1862.

Ink inscription on verso: "Antietam #22." Graphite inscription on verso: "Federal Graves. Burnside's Bridge." Numeric notation: "585 V." An unidentified Federal soldier leans against a stone wall that borders Antietam Creek. From here the 51st NY fired on the Confederates on the wooded ridgeline above [opposite bank] and soon charged the bridge itself. Wooden grave markers appear in front of the wall. Frassanito [Antietam, p. 240] has identified four of the graves as being those of Sgt. George W. Loud, Pvt. Edward Miller, Pvt. John Thompson, and Cpl. Michael Keefe.

GLC05111.01.0375