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1862-1865 ca.

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Title: Malvern Hill battlefield. View of hills across field. [1862-1865 ca.]

A building has been drawn in graphite on the mount just outside the image. On bluish-gray mount.

GLC05111.01.0328

1862-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Malvern Hill battlefield. View of Crew farm from road. [1862-1865 ca.]

On bluish-gray mount.

GLC05111.01.0329

1862-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: River landing at Turkey Island where gunboats were stationed. [Malvern Hill] [1862-1865 ca.]

Title from graphite inscription on verso. Orange crayon inscription on verso: "219/37." Graphite inscription on verso crossed out by orange crayon: "37/567." On bluish-gray mount.

GLC05111.01.0330

1862-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Malvern house. [Malvern Hill] [1862-1865 ca.]

Brick house with white trim. The photograph accompanies a series on Malvern Hill and is on a bluish-gray mount.

GLC05111.01.0331

circa 1862-1865

Photograph

Title: Fenced in farm buildings. [1862-1865 ca.]

The photograph accompanies a series on Malvern Hill and is on a bluish-gray mount.

GLC05111.01.0333

1863-1864 ca.

Photograph

Title: Scene on the Tennesse River. [1863-1864 ca.]

View of the Tennessee River taken from an elevated position. In the foreground is a plank building and a slightly open draw bridge. Two steam boats are in the river and steaming toward the draw bridge. A metal pipe is sticking out of the window of the building.

GLC05111.01.0340

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: View of trenches and earthworks

Graphite inscriptions on verso: "24" and "8545."

GLC05111.01.0342

1855-1860's ca.

Photograph

Title: House built by Genl Grant on the farm nr. St. Louis [Hardscrabble]

Title taken from inscription on mount. Mounted on purple mount. The full note on the picture: "House built by Genl. Grant on the farm n[ea]r St. Louis given to him by his father in Law, Judge Dent." Judge Dent gave the newly wed couple the land in 1848 and in 1855, grant built the cabin he would name "Hardscrabble." Written near St. Louis, Missouri

GLC05111.01.0343

1860's ca.

Photograph

Title: Navy Department building [1860's ca.]

Tree lined street. The navy department building is visible behind the line of trees. Inscription on verso: "Navy Dept. West and North." An additional inscription "not this" is partially trimmed off. The building in the photograph matches a different image of the building in CWTI Photographic History of the Civil War. Vol. 2: 894.

GLC05111.01.0344

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