1864/05

Photograph

Title: City Point, VA, as it appeared when captured

Identified by inscription on recto. In the building in the immediate foreground shows heavy damage from shelling. A long line of wagons pass behind the building and are heading toward the wharves in the background. Several ships are visible in the background.

GLC05111.01.0341

1863 ca.

Photograph

Title: Iron clad monitor "Choctaw" at Vicksburg. [1863 ca.]

Inscription on verso mis-identifies the ship: "Mississippi River Iron Clad Monitor "Chickasaw" stationary turret." "Choctaw." Stamped Number "12257." Shows the monitor on the River with a view of Vicksburg in the background. See Photographic History of the Civil War (Blue & Gray Press, 1987), p.186.

GLC05111.01.0346

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

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

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

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, 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

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

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

1865 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Ruins of burned city, possibly Richmond. [1865 ca.]

Numeric inscription on verso "883." Image of devastation caused by fire. Skeletal remains of many buildings including a large factory are visible in the foreground with unharmed buildings in the distance.

GLC05111.01.0377

1865 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Fort Darling [Drewry's Bluff, Va.] on the James River, gun emplacement with seige gun. [1865 ca.]

Numeric notation on verso: "XII 55" A Federal soldier poses behind a large artillery piece after that fort's capture. The canon sits on a swivelling carriage and faces out of the fort walls. On the left are stacked ammuntion boxes. Written at Fort Darling

GLC05111.01.0378

1865/04 ca.

Photograph

Title: Confederate battery at Howlett House, Trent's Reach, James River. [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. A close view of a large artillery piece [Brooke rifle] on a swivelling carriage aiming out over the fort walls. The James can be seen in the far distance.

GLC05111.01.0379

1865/04 ca.

Photograph

Title: Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap. [Howlett House, Trent's Reach] [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. A man wearing a dark frock coat sits on the base of a large canon [Brooke rifle] mounted on a swivel base. Numeric notation "XII 31."

GLC05111.01.0380

1865/04 ca.

Photograph

Title: Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap [Howlett House, Trent's Reach]. [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. A soldiers stands next to a large canon mounted on a swivelling carriage. An embrasured trench cuts through the sand to the canon. In the background is the James. Numeric notation "XII 28."

GLC05111.01.0381

1865/04 ca.

Photograph

Title: Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap [Howlett House, Trent's Reach]. [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. A Federal soldier stands behind the canon. The gun barrel is raised as if to fire over the parrapet. A heavy rope hangs from the gun.

GLC05111.01.0382

1863/02

Photograph

Title: Embarkation of the 9th Corp at Aquia Creek

Title from inscription on verso. Graphite inscription on recto: "No 2 This Book 2 vols [?] est [?] in [illegible] present over No 1." Numeric notation "679 VI." Image of a large number of soldiers on the docks and boarding ships. Nice image.

GLC05111.01.0385

1865/04 ca.

Photograph

Title: High bridge over Appomattox River, [near Farmville, Va.]. [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. Longview looking down the tracks of the South Side Railroad crossing over the Appomattox. A man sits on the guard rail on the left hand side of the image. A smaller bridge can be seen on lower ground in the right corner of the image. Numeric notation: "1013 - XI-IV"

GLC05111.01.0393

1862/05 ca.

Photograph

Title: Battery of 100 [pounder] & 200 [pounder] Parrots at the Farmhold [sic] House, Yorktown, Va. [May 1862 ca.]

Inscription in blue pencil on verso: "Waud. Battery of 100 & 200 Parrots at the Farmhold [sic] House erected by the 5th N.Y. under Warren." View of four artillery seige guns [most likely Battery No. 1 pointing out over the embrasured walls of a fort.

GLC05111.01.0394