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Capitol Building in Richmond, Virginia.

A view of the Capitol Building in Richmond, from across a park. Soldiers relax on the grounds with stacked arms arranged in rows and errected small cooking fires. Inscription on verso: "View in Capitol Grounds, Richmond." Numeric notation on verso:...

GLC05111.01.0718

Ballards Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.

A view down a dirt road at a five story brick building, with a brick walkway across the street to an unseen building. A sign on the right reads: "Hacks for Hire." Inscription on verso: "Ballard's Hotel Richmond, Virginia." Numeric Notation on verso...

GLC05111.01.0719

Steven's House in Centreville, Virginia.

Inscription on verso: "Mrs Stevens' House Centreville, Va." Numerical Notation on verso: "155." One black boy stands with a black man looking away from the camera in front of the house. Another black man stands on the porch.
See GLC 5111.01.0721

GLC05111.01.0720

Oblique view of Mrs [Alexander ?] Steven's House in Centreville, Virginia.

Inscription on verso: "Mrs Stevens' House Centreville, Va." Numerical Notation on verso: "36."
See GLC 5111.01.0720

GLC05111.01.0721

Ruins of bridge at Berlin, Virginia.

Image of river through Berlin, Virginia, which was spanned at one point by a bridge of which only the vertical pylons are remaining. In the foreground are several small houses bordering a road that crossed the bridge. Inscription on verso: "Ruins of...

GLC05111.01.0722

Courthouse in Petersburg, Virginia.

A View of the Petersburg, Virginia courthouse, with the Treadway and Johnson Stove warehouse on the right side of the image. A sign on the buidling mentions "tin ware" and wood. Inscription on verso: "Courthouse Petersburg,Va." Numeric Notation on...

GLC05111.01.0723

Street approaching Warrenton, Virginia.

Inscription on verso: "Street approaching Warrenton,Va." Numeric Notation on verso: "143." A dirt road lined by small houses on either side rises toward what appears to be either a church steeple or town hall in the background.

GLC05111.01.0724

Pratt's Castle.

Inscription on verso: "Pratt's Castle." Numeric Notation on verso: "134."

GLC05111.01.0725

Ruins of Mumma house, Antietam battlefield, Md. [September 19-20, 1862 ca.]

Although inscription on verso reads, "Ruins of Summit House," the image is clearly of the Mumma homestead at Sharpsburg [Antietam], Md. The image has also been identified by Frassanito in his book "Antietam" as "Ruins of the Mumma house" and was...

GLC05111.01.0726

Merchants Cotton Mill.

Inscription on verso: "Merchants Cotton Mill." Numeric Notation on verso: "145."

GLC05111.01.0727

Ruins of Gaines Mill, near Cold Harbor, Va. [April 1865 ca.]

Inscription on verso: "Ruins of Gaines Mill." Numeric Notation on verso: "148."

GLC05111.01.0728

Steamboats loading and unloading supplies at Vicksburg docks. February 1864

Three steamboats moored at the docks in Vicksburg, loading and unloading cargo as evinced by the horse-drawn wagons. Inscription on verso: "The levee at Vicksburg Missi, Feb., 1864." Numeric Notation on verso: "137."

GLC05111.01.0729

Two men looking off to Chickasaw Bluffs Point.

Inscription on verso: "Chickasaw Bluffs Point." Two men, one standing and the other reclining on the ground, look off to a steep, wooded rise in the background--Chickasaw Bluff Point.

GLC05111.01.0730

Slaves quarters on plantation, Port Royal Island, S.C.

Inscription on verso: "On Port Royal Island, S.C." Numeric Notation on verso: "139." Five small, white shanties in a row with a group of black men and women out front. There are also some large piles of what appears to be woodchips.

GLC05111.01.0731

McLean House and family posed on front porch at Appomattox Court House. [April 1865 ca.]

Three women and two men stand on the porch of the McLean house. Inscription on verso: "McLeans House Appomattox." Numeric Notation on verso: "42(451)."
See GLC 5111.01.0280, .0532.

GLC05111.01.0732

Seventeen soldiers in front of Appomattox Courthouse.

Inscription on verso: "Appomattox Courthouse, Va. where Lee surrendered." Numeric Notation on verso: "44(856)." The men stand behind their stacked arms. Two tents are on the left side of the image.

GLC05111.01.0733

Waterfall on Appomattox River with factory in background.

Inscription on verso: "Waterfall on Appomattox." Numeric Notation on verso: "21(799)."

GLC05111.01.0734

Waterfall on Appomattox River with man seated in foreground and buildings in background.

Inscription on verso: "Waterfall on Appomattox." Numeric Notation: "144."

GLC05111.01.0735

Waterfall on Appomattox River with ruins and structures in foreground and background.

Inscription on verso: "Waterfall on Appomattox." Numeric Notation on verso: "26."

GLC05111.01.0736

Northern View of Waterfall on Appomattox River with tree and several men in foreground, buildings in distance.

Inscription on verso: "View of Falls-North side Appomattox." Numeric Notation on verso: "24."

GLC05111.01.0737

Rappahannock Station with railroad tracks, tents, and soldiers.

Inscription on verso: "Rapahannock Station." Numeric notation on back: "6."

GLC05111.01.0738

Engineers erecting a bridge across the North Fork of the Rappahannock River.

Inscription on verso: "Erecting Bridge across the north fork of the Rappahannock." Numeric notation on verso: "141."

GLC05111.01.0739

Courthouse at Culpeper, Virginia acting as prison with Confederate P.O.W.s on balcony.

Inscription on verso: "Culpepper, Courthouse." Numeric notation on verso: "62."

GLC05111.01.0740

Railroad depot, Culpepper, Va.

Inscription on verso: "Railroad Station, Culpepper, Va." Railroad tracks, with two trains in background, run between a street of buildings and a large brick house. Two men stand at far left. Numeric Notation on verso: "54."

GLC05111.01.0741

Railroad depot, Culpepper, Va.

Inscription on verso: "Railroad Depot Culpepper, Va." Culpeper railroad depot, with fence in foreground and covered wagons surrounded by buildings and train in background. Numeric Notation on verso: "149."

GLC05111.01.0742

A man surveying the ruins of Hampton, Va.

Inscription on verso: "Ruins of Hampton, Va." A man stands next to the ruins of a chimney amongst the rubble. Numeric Notation on verso: "29."

GLC05111.01.0743

Ruins of the Church at Hampton, Va.

Inscription on verso: "Old Church at Hampton, Va Ruins." A man stands near a tree in front of the ruins of the Church in Hampton, Virginia. Numeric notation on verso: "130."

GLC05111.01.0744

Ruins of the Church at Hampton, Va. [alternate]

Inscription on verso: "Old Church at Hampton, Va. Ruins." View of the ruins of the Church at Hampton, Virginia, without the man by the tree [#744]. Numeric notation on verso: "131."

GLC05111.01.0745

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland.

Inscription on verso: "Blair's House Silver Spring, Maryland." Front of house from the left side with a tree in left foreground and soldier standing on guard next to two men seated on porch. Numeric Notation on verso: "64."

GLC05111.01.0746

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland.

Inscription on verso: "Blair's House Silver Spring, Maryland." Front of house from the right side with trees in foreground and soldiers standing and sitting infront of house. Numeric Notation on verso: "70."

GLC05111.01.0747

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland, with family seated on bench.

Inscription on verso: "Blair's House Silver Spring, Md." A family of three sits on a bench on the lands of the Blair estate, next to a path with the servants' quarters in view. Numeric notation on verso: "43."

GLC05111.01.0748

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland, with reliquary.

Inscription on verso: "At Blair's House Silver Spring, Md." The covered reliquary of a statue of Apollo on the grounds of the Blair House with low stone wall behind and houses in background. Numeric notation on verso: "132."

GLC05111.01.0749

Ruins of the Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland.

Inscription on verso: "Ruins of Mr. Blairs House." The burned-out remains of the Blair House. Numeric notation on verso: "28."

GLC05111.01.0750

Emmitsburg, Maryland, with fields in foreground rising up to the town.

Inscription on verso: "Emmetsburg [sic], Maryland." Some buildings are seen to be intact while others are in ruins. Numeric notation on verso: "48."

GLC05111.01.0751

100-year-old Oak tree.

Inscription on verso: "Oak tree-supposed to be 100 yrs old." Numeric notation on verso: "72."

GLC05111.01.0752

Lutheran Church in Sharpsburg, Maryland, showing battle damage.

Inscription on verso: "Lutheran Church Sharpsburg, Maryland." The church shows the scars of battle suffered from artillery fire on 17 September 1862. Numeric notation on verso: "134."

GLC05111.01.0753

Dead Confederate soldiers and artillery horses on Antietam battlefield, near Dunker Church.

Inscription on verso: "View of Battlefield at Antietam." Dead Confederates and their horses lie in scattered clusters. An abandoned limber and a Federal burial party [far right] can also be seen in the background. Numeric notation on verso: "24."

GLC05111.01.0754

Antietam battlefield, with Federal soldier surveying the field with binoculars from atop a hill, near McClellan's headquarters.

Inscription on verso: "Battlefield-Antietam." Soldier looks over the battlefield the day after the battle, showing reserve artillery stationed on the left side of the image and a Federal soldiers bivouacked on the right. Numeric notation on verso:...

GLC05111.01.0755

View of the hills around Sharpsburg, Maryland, with the Antietam Creek cutting between them.

Inscription on verso: "View in Antietam." Numeric notation on verso: "81."

GLC05111.01.0756

Dunker Church at Antietam battlefield, taken after battle damage has been repaired.

Inscription on verso: "Dunkar[d] Church (Antietam)." Numeric notation on verso: "45(916)."

GLC05111.01.0757

Dunker Church at Antietam battlefield, with dead artillery horse.

Inscription on verso: "Dunker[d] Church." Variant view of Dunker Church. In other views, the bodies of Confederate soldiers can be seen piled together amongst horse carcases and an abandoned limber. Numeric notation on verso: "48."

GLC05111.01.0758

Hall St., Sharpsburg, Maryland, with St. Paul's Episcopal Church in the distance and Gardner's photographic wagon in foreground.

Inscription on verso: "Sharpsburg-Episcopal Church in distance." View down a road in the town of Sharpsburg, with a house visible to the right and left of the road, and an Episcopal church in the distance. Numeric notation on verso: "38."

GLC05111.01.0759

Main St., Sharpsburg, Maryland, with St. Paul's Episcopal Church in the distance.

Inscription on verso: "Principal Street in Sharpsburg." Main Street stetches down a hill and then back up again toward the woods where Gen. Lee's headquarters were located oods far into the distance. Numeric notation on verso: "49."

GLC05111.01.0760

Smith's Farm in Keedysville, Virginia, at the field hospital of French's division.

Inscription on verso: "Smith's Farm-Reedsville [sic], Va." Image of a large barn, surrounded by piles of hay and farming implements. A group of six people can be seen on the lower left of the image, and a pair of horses stands next to an artillery...

GLC05111.01.0761

Gale's House, with fourteen people on or around the porch.

Inscription on verso: "Gale's House." Numeric notation on verso: "32."

GLC05111.01.0762

General Isaac Stevens' Headquarters in South Carolina

Inscription on verso: "Headquarters Gen. I.I.Stevens S.C." A view of the house in South Carolina where Union General Isaac Ingalls Stevens maintained his headquarters during the South Carolina expedition of 1861-62. Numeric notation on verso: "34."

GLC05111.01.0763

House of Robert B. Rhett, Beaufort, S.C.

Inscription on verso: "Rhett's House Beaufort, S.C." The house is surrounded by trees, with a man standing at the foot of the stairs leading up to the main entry. Numeric notation on verso: "35(20)."

GLC05111.01.0764

Clarke's house, hospital for reserve forces.

Inscription on verso: "Clarke's House, Hospital for Reserve." Large house flanked by two smaller cabins with numerous trees and a whitewashed fence in front. Numeric notation on verso: "36(86)."

GLC05111.01.0765

Miller's House [Sharpsburg, MD.], on Antietam battlefield, with family standing on porch.

Inscription on verso: "Miller's house where Gen. Mansfield fell." Image of Miller's House near Antietam, where Union General Joseph Mansfield was killed. Numeric notation on verso: "40(917)."

GLC05111.01.0766

Headquarters of General Porter.

Inscription on verso: "HQ-Genl Porter." Small house on left side of image with a group of soldiers out front. In the distance, there appears a large encampment. Numeric notation on verso: "41."

GLC05111.01.0767