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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

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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.

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

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

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

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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].

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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.

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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...

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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...

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

On a bluish-gray mount.

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

On a bluish-gray mount.

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

On a bluish-gray mount.

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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.

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

Painted or retouched cabinet card size photograph.

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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.

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Portrait of Captain T. E. Hall.

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

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Portrait of Captain M. Bell.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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."

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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."

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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.

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[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...

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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."

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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.

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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."

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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."

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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"

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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"

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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."

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Distant view of long bridge over a river with ships in background.

The left sections of the bridge are constructed using pontoons. The image has in the shape of a circle with black borders. Numeric notation "XII 954."

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Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches [Petersburg]. [April 3, 1865]

Title from inscription on verso. Image of a soldier with two guns lying to his left and branchs lying to his right. Stamp of F. H. Meserve. Numeric notation: "266."

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Petersburg Gas Works and rubble of smokestack. [April 1865 ca.]

Title from inscription on verso. Image of what remains of the Gas Works building with gaping holes, caused by artillery fire, in its walls. The pile of bricks in the foreground is all that remains of the once-famous 80-foot-tall somkestack. Federal...

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Pontoon bridge over the James River, Va., from North bank. [1864 ca.]

Location either at Weyanoke Point or Powhattan Point, near Harrison's Landing, VA. Soldiers are crossing the bridge while cavalry troopers wait to cross. The bridge appears to have a section detached to allow the ship on the left passage. The...

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Man standing behind the wheel of a massive gun carriage.

The wheel is twice as tall as the man. A rope is tied to a hook on the wheel's axel. The carriage would have been used to haul large artillery pieces. Numeric notation: "1029."

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View of pontoon bridge across stream, in the rear of a group of Federal soldiers posed in forground looking across bridge.

Three additional men pose in the middle of the bridge on the left side. The men all appear to be watching a group on the far side of the bridge, but it is unclear what this group is doing. Numeric notation: "V 3476." Stamp of the Century Co.

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Bomb-proof quarters in Federal lines, Petersburg, Va. [1864-1865 ca.]

Image of a man standing in front of bomb proof quarter, which consist of a door and living quarters cut into a mound of earth. A fence is on the right side of the image, near the shelter. Trees in the background. Numeric notation: "XI-III 1065."

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Ambulance convoy at rest on its way to hospital at City Point, Va. [1864 ca.]

The first few ambulances have the rear flaps closed, while the three closest to the camera have the flaps open. Later pencil inscription on verso says "July 1863" but the bare trees and donned great coats indicates probably a winter scene. Numeric...

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Bridge crossing shallow creek.

A man poses on the left bank and another sits on the left side of the bridge. The image is in the shape of a circle with a black border. Numeric notation: "913." Note: image is loaded upside down.

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