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Dead soldiers on the Cold Harbor battlefield

Unburied remains of dead soldiers, on an open battlefield with a treeline in the distance. Numeric notation on recto: "914" and "128." Inscription on verso: "Unburied dead on battlefield." Numeric notation on verso: "128" "914" and "128."

GLC05111.01.0995

Pleasanton's Headquarters, Auburn, VA

The image shows Pleasanton's Headquarters with Cavalry Corps gathered between two lines of A-frame tents. Inscription on verso: "Pleasanton's Hdqtrs. Auburn, Va." and "Genl. Ordway Gardner Coll." Numeric notations on verso: "VIII" and "273."

GLC05111.01.0996

Bringing in the wounded

The photo shows three men standing by a stretcher. Lying on the stretcher is a man who may be dead. Two horses and a building surrounded by a fence and trees are also in the image. Numeric notation on image: "343." Inscription on verso: "Bringing in...

GLC05111.01.0997

Group photo of officers

The image shows a group of 13 officers posed before an open A-frame tent. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "624" and "XXXV."

GLC05111.01.0998

Soldiers on a pontoon bridge

The image shows a group of soldiers posed on a pontoon bridge with a single soldier crouched next to the water in the foreground. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "764."

GLC05111.01.0999

Town scene

The image shows a town scene with two covered wagons and various horses in the background. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "IV" and "534."

GLC05111.01.1000

Army blacksmith at Antietam

Same as #1002. The image shows a busy blacksmith's shop, with what appears to be an African-American smith seated in the center of the photo surrounded by equipment, horses and soldiers. Numeric notation on image: "110." Inscription on verso: "Army...

GLC05111.01.1001

Army blacksmith at Antietam

Same as #1001. The image shows a busy blacksmith's shop with what appears to be an African-American smith seated in the center of the photo surrounded by equipment and soldiers. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "V" and...

GLC05111.01.1002

Soldiers seated at their tent

The image shows two soldiers seated in front of their A-frame tent. Inscription on verso: "Ordway Gardner Coll." Numeric notations on verso: "VIII" and "215."

GLC05111.01.1003

Confederate redoubt

The image shows a group of Confederate soldiers at rest near their tents, with a cannon to the left of the tents. Inscription on verso: "A Confederate redoubt" and "MES." Numeric notation on verso: "146" and "755."

GLC05111.01.1004

A suttler's tent

The image shows a group of approximately 13 men gathered in and around an A-frame suttler's tent. Numeric notation on recto: "138." Inscription on verso: "A suttler's tent." Numeric notation on verso: "138" and "1371."

GLC05111.01.1005

Soldiers at mealtime

The image shows a group of soldiers eating near a small A-frame tent, in a field with scattered trees. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "IV" and "645."

GLC05111.01.1006

Officers on porch

The image shows 7 officers posed on a house porch wearing knee-high boots and sabers, possibly indicative of Cavalry Officers. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XXIV" and "1022."

GLC05111.01.1007

Soldiers relaxing

The image shows a group of 12 soldiers posed in a relaxed position in front of a cabin in the woods. Inscription on verso: [deleted: "Signal Corp" and "Pleast Vy Md?"]. Numeric notation on verso: "636."

GLC05111.01.1008

Soldiers in a group photo

The image shows 15 soldiers standing and seated posed for a group picture in front of a white, wooden building. The men are wearing various uniforms, some with one stripe on the pant leg. Numeric notation on recto: "1001." Inscription on verso:...

GLC05111.01.1009

Union officers

The image shows 6 union officers in camp, posed in front of an A-frame tent with horses in the background. Numeric notation on image: "280." Inscription on verso: "Gen. Ward, Gen. Mott, Col. Ausin, Col. Brewster, and Col. Farnham, 2d Div., 3d Corps...

GLC05111.01.1010

Union soldiers dismantling Confederate fort posed on cannon

The image shows Union soldiers sitting on and standing near two cannon, one soldier in the center possibly African-American, with fortification earthworks in the background. Inscription on verso: "Dismantling the Rebel Forts, Petersburg, Va."

GLC05111.01.1011

Three soldiers near earthworks

The image shows three soldiers standing near the sandbag fortifications, possibly after a battle, objects are strewn on the ground and a house in the background looks as though it has been bombarded. Inscription on image: "Haas & Seale." Inscription...

GLC05111.01.1012

Officers of 1st Connecticut at Fort Darling

Same as #1014 and #1015. The image shows approximately 9 Union officers seated in a semi-circle, behind a fence and near a wooden cabin. Inscription on verso: Officer of 1st Conn H.A. at Fort Darling James Riv Apr 65[?] t1." Numeric notations on...

GLC05111.01.1013

Officers of 1st Connecticut at Fort Darling

(Same as #1013 and #1015.) This photo is darker than the other two. The image shows approximately nine Union officers seated in a semi-circle behind a fence and near a cabin. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "11." Written...

GLC05111.01.1014

Officers of 1st Connecticut at Fort Darling

(Same as GLC 05111.01.1013 and 05111.01.1014.) The image shows 9 Union officers seated in a semi-circle behind a fence and near a cabin. Numeric notation on verso: "11." Written at Fort Darling

GLC05111.01.1015

Soldiers in front of a Sibley tent

The image shows a group of 10 soldiers posed in front of a Sibley tent. One man seems to be writing or drawing, others are holding guns, and another is picking at his feet with a knife. Numeric notations on recto: "10" and "2413." Inscription on...

GLC05111.01.1016

Hanson House at Wilderness

The image shows a road leading up to a farm in the distance. Numeric notation on image: "102." Inscription on verso: "See Duplicate" and "to Wilderness Hanson's House." Numeric notations on verso: "86" and "67-3346."

GLC05111.01.1017

Camp scene

The image shows a field with a wooden railing going downhill on the right and two wagons on the lower left. A large camp sits on a gradual rise in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "816."

GLC05111.01.1018

Head Quarters Lowell's Cavalry

The image shows a single horse in the foreground with Sibley tents behind, and a cluster of buildings on top of a hill, which includes the headquarters for Colonel C.R. Lowell's cavalry. Inscription on verso: "Hd. Qrs. Lowell's Cavalry Brigade...

GLC05111.01.1019

Camp Scene

The image shows a camp scene with one Sibley tent and various A-frame tents, an unidentifiable flag is flying on the left of the photo, and three men stand in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner" and "Army of Pot. Frederick." Numeric...

GLC05111.01.1020

Zouaves at Yorktown

The image shows 4 Union Zouaves around the wreckage of bombed cannon. Numeric notation on image: "249." Inscription on verso: "Confederate fortification Yorktown, Va." Numeric notation on verso: "249" "65" and "83."

GLC05111.01.1021

Camp scene

The image shows a large unidentified camp with Sibley tents on a wide open field. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "704."

GLC05111.01.1022

Sharpshooters at Petersburg

The image shows three Union sharpshooters behind fortifications with a box of artillery marked "1864." Inscription on verso: "Sharp shooters Siege of Petersburg." Numeric notation on verso: "158" and "15."

GLC05111.01.1023

Cannonball in front of trench at Petersburg

The image shows three cannonballs in front of a trench at Petersburg with a fence in the background on top of the hill. Numeric notation on recto: "3336." Inscription on verso: "Mine in front of Petersburg" "Dup" and "From P." Numeric notations on...

GLC05111.01.1024

Supply wharf

The image shows a supply port with numerous barrels, a Sibley tent, storehouses and boats in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "680" "680" and "VI."

GLC05111.01.1025

Supply center

The image shows numerous supply barrels, with two men loading two covered wagons, and a train in the distance. Numeric notation on recto: "240." Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "819."

GLC05111.01.1026

Pontoon bridges

The image shows two pontoon bridges across a river with two men crouching on the bridge in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "765."

GLC05111.01.1027

Bombed structure with pontoon bridges

The image shows a wooden cabin destroyed by a shell with two pontoon bridges crossing a river. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "766." Deleted numeric notation on verso: "767."

GLC05111.01.1028

Pontoon docks with sailboat

The image shows two pontoon docks with covered wagons receiving or delivering supplies to sailboats on a river. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "705."

GLC05111.01.1029

Footbridge along a river

The photo shows a wooden foot bridge over a gorge, with a river in the upper right-hand corner of the image. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XII" and "1119."

GLC05111.01.1030

Wooden bridge over a river

The image shows a wagon crossing a wooden bridge over a river, with a man wading in the river below . Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "IV" and "521."

GLC05111.01.1031

Mounting guard in Fort Wagner

The image shows a mounting guard inside Fort Wagner, South Carolina. Black soldiers appear to be occupying the fort, with various other figures standing on a ridge in the distance. Numeric notations on recto: "3491" and "41." Inscription on verso: "...

GLC05111.01.1032

Bombproof quarters for black soldiers

(Same as #1037.) The image shows a group of black soldiers sitting on a hill and three others standing below them near bombproof quarters. Numeric notation on recto: "804." Inscriptions on verso: "Gardner" and "Bombproof Quarters Fed." Numeric...

GLC05111.01.1033

Black soldiers filling canteens

The image shows a group of black soldiers with some on horses, others reclining on the ground and a group in line in front of a Sibley tent. Numeric notation on image: "33." Inscription on verso: "Filling their canteens." Numeric notations on verso...

GLC05111.01.1034

Camp scene with black soldiers.

The image shows a camp scene in the woods with a black soldier writing near his A-frame tent, other soldiers are reclining and a group stands with their guns in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Ordway Gardner Coll." Numeric notations on verso:...

GLC05111.01.1035

Cedar Mountain battlefield, Bull Run

The image shows a group of black soldiers reclining and standing amongst the trees on the edge of a battlefield. Numeric notation on image: "504." Inscriptions on verso: "Cedar Mountain Battlefield West View Aug. 62" and "Gardner." Numeric notations...

GLC05111.01.1036

Bombproof quarters for black soldiers, Petersburg

(Same as #1033.) The image shows a group of black soldiers sitting on a hill and three others standing below near bombproof quarters. Numeric notations on recto: "804" and "152." Inscription on verso: "Making coffee on the lines before Petersburg, Va...

GLC05111.01.1037

Five generations on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina

The image shows 8 African-Americans posed in front of a wooden building. Inscription on verso: "Negro family representing 5 generations." Numeric notations on verso: "91" and "No 17."

GLC05111.01.1038

Bombproof quarters for black soldiers

The image shows bombproof quarters with various black soldiers sitting, and others standing in the distance with their guns. Inscription on verso: "Gardner" and "Bombproof Quarters. Federal." Numeric notations on verso: "XI-III" and "805."

GLC05111.01.1039

Union officers sitting for a meal with camp scene behind

The image shows 5 Union officers seated at a table drinking, with two young African-American men standing behind them and what appears to be a white cook with an apron. Various white and black soldiers stand in the background among the A-frame tents...

GLC05111.01.1040

Soldiers in front of US Sanitary Department office

The image shows a group of soldiers standing in front of the US Sanitary Department office on an otherwise empty street. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "739."

GLC05111.01.1041

Black soldiers manning a cannon

The image shows a group of 5 black soldiers manning a cannon along a river. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XII" and "51."

GLC05111.01.1042

Bombproof restaurant, Petersburg

The image shows a man sitting in front of a bombproof restaurant with a sign: "Fruit & Oyster House" and scattered trees in the surrounding landscape. Numeric notation on recto: "180." Inscription on verso: "Bomb-proof restaurant on the Petersburg...

GLC05111.01.1043

Supply Wharf with covered wagons

The image shows a group of covered wagons, one possibly marked with crossed cannons, and a supply wharf on a river in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "707."

GLC05111.01.1044

Military Cemetery, Alexandria

The image shows the entrance gate of a military cemetery with a Union flag flying above. Inscription on verso: "Gardner" and "Alexandria, Va." Numeric notations on verso: "XXXII" and "1172."

GLC05111.01.1045

Settler's home

The image shows five standing figures and one sitting figure scattered in front of what appears to be a settler's home. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "IV" and "543."

GLC05111.01.1046

Nature scene

The image shows a nature scene with a river in the background and possibly a fortification in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XII" and "1126."

GLC05111.01.1047

Supply wharf, Belle Plain

The image shows numerous covered wagons on the road to the supply wharf with A-frame tents and at least six visible boats docked and out on the river. Numeric notation on image: "82." Inscription on verso: "Belle Plain Landing, Va." Numeric...

GLC05111.01.1048

Evacuation of Port Royal

The image shows a large group of people, wagons and cattle waiting at the edge of a river with a pontoon bridge leading to a group of boats, and a wood-slat roof in the foreground. Numeric notation on recto: "2492." Inscription on verso: "Evacuation...

GLC05111.01.1049

House with shell damage

The image shows a house with bomb damage on the rear corner and the front steps. Inscription on verso: "Gardner" and "A of P Frederick." Numeric notations on verso: "VI" and "716."

GLC05111.01.1050

Meade's headquarters at Gettysburg

The image shows a small white wooden house with evidence of shelling in the front yard. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "VII" and "1167."

GLC05111.01.1051

Town scene

The image shows a dirt road lined with wooden buildings, a fence, and trees, with a large building in the distance at the end of the road. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "IV" and "532."

GLC05111.01.1052

Culpepper Courthouse with prisoners on balcony.

The image shows a group of people standing in front of an unidentified municipal building, with three people hanging clothes from the balcony. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "IV" and "523 (?)"

GLC05111.01.1053

Camp in front of a large white building

The image shows a small camp in front of an unidentified large white building surrounded by a lawn and trees. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "IV" and "537."

GLC05111.01.1054

Flooded road

The image shows a single horseback rider crossing a flooded road, with an open field in the background. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "960."

GLC05111.01.1055

Pontoon bridge with barn

The image shows a dilapidated barn with a pontoon bridge across a river to the right and horses and covered wagons in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "747."

GLC05111.01.1056

Farmyard near Antietam

The image shows broken down farm buildings and wagons. Inscription on verso: "Antietam (C.C. Buil.)" and "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "000."

GLC05111.01.1057

Bombed brick building

The image shows a bombed brick building with debris scattered on the ground. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "X" and "774."

GLC05111.01.1058

Women in front of a house

The image shows a group of seven white and two black women standing in front of a white pickett fence surrounding a two-story house.

GLC05111.01.1059

Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C.

The image shows a cluster of white hospital buildings situated on top of a hill. Inscription on verso: "General View of Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C." and "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XXXI" and "1014." Deleted numeric notation on...

GLC05111.01.1060

Artillery and earthworks with wooden buildings

The image shows three buildings behind earthworks with pyramids of cannonballs. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "57."

GLC05111.01.1061

Planing mill at Petersburg

The image shows a bombed planing mill in the background with an open road in the foreground. Inscription on verso: "Petersburg, Va. Planing mill showing effects of bombardment." Numeric notations on verso: "98" and "1104."

GLC05111.01.1062

Bombed railroad depot, Charleston

The image shows a railroad depot in ruins after bombardment. Inscription on verso: "Ruins of Northeastern RR Depot" "Charleston S.C. Apr/65." Numeric notations on verso: "3453" and "41."

GLC05111.01.1063

Inside of the bombed Dunlop House, Petersburg

The image shows the rubble inside a house after being hit by a Union cannon. Inscription on verso: "Where one of Grant's Messengers Called. East Parlor Dunlop House Petersburg." Numeric notations on verso: "24" and "42."

GLC05111.01.1064

Confederate fortifications

The image shows one man sitting outside a bombproof shelter amidst empty boxes. He is in the center of earthworks and fortifications. Inscriptions on verso: "Conf. Fortifications" and "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XI-III" and "1074."

GLC05111.01.1070

Railroad depot, Nashville

The image shows approximately 9 railroad engines with various other cars assembled at a brick depot, with a wooden building in the left background. A line of people are standing outside the depot on the right edge of the photo. Inscription on verso:...

GLC05111.01.1071

Wagon train river crossing

The image shows one covered and one uncovered wagon, with six horses each, waiting to cross a river, with three other uncovered wagons already in the water. There is a large camp on the riverbank in the distance, and people and horses line the entire...

GLC05111.01.1072

Town scene with church

The photo shows the front entrance of a brick church with a white steeple. Two men stand on the street corner outside the church. A man sits in a single-horse wagon in the right foreground, he is looking back at the church over his left shoulder...

GLC05111.01.1073

House, yard and surrounding street

The image shows a large brick house with a large yard inside a wrought-iron fence. A lone white horse is tied to a pole outside the fence. Dirt paths lead along the fence. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "1127."

GLC05111.01.1074

Confederate fortifications

The photo shows at least three bombproof shelters with surrounding earthworks. One man in a suit and hat stands in the center of the fort. Inscriptions on verso: "Gardner" and "Conf. Fortifications." Numeric notations on verso: "XI-III" and "1052."

GLC05111.01.1075

Nature scene, possible earthworks

The image shows various trees beyond which may be earthworks in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XIV" and "1056."

GLC05111.01.1076

Bombed stone bridge

The photo shows two men sitting and one standing on a stone arch bridge that spans a river. The bridge has suffered damage from bombs. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "1179."

GLC05111.01.1077

Confederate fortifications

The image shows a man in a suit and hat standing amidst bombed earthworks. Inscriptions on verso: "Gardner" and "Conf. Fortifications." Numeric notations: "XI-III" and "1075."

GLC05111.01.1078

Four people standing on earthworks

The image shows four figures on the ridge of an earthworks fortification, with a covered horse-drawn carriage to the left.

GLC05111.01.1079

Bomproofs and fortifications

The image shows a large fortification with numerous bombroofs. Inscriptions on verso: "Fortifications on the lines" and "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "XI-III" and "1097."

GLC05111.01.1080

Cannon destroyed by shells with single soldier

The image shows a single soldier with his musket resting on his right shoulder, in the middle of earthworks, and in front of a destroyed cannon. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XXII" and "1242."

GLC05111.01.1081

River landing

The image shows a river landing with the surrounding hills, a well-worn road leading to the water, and approximately five people standing on the shore. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "709."

GLC05111.01.1082

Fortification with bombproof

The image shows bombproof quarters in the center of a large fortification after the siege of Petersburg, with a single man standing in a suit in front. Inscriptions on verso: "Gardner" and "Fortifications on the lines." Numeric notations on verso:...

GLC05111.01.1083

Fortifications after the siege of Petersburg

The image shows a large fortification after the siege of Petersburg, with one man wearing a suit standing on the left side of the photo. Inscriptions on verso: "Fortifications on the lines. Siege of Petersburg" "ART DEPARTMENT The Century Co. 33...

GLC05111.01.1084

Pontoon bridge spanning river

The image shows a pontoon bridge spanning a river. Numerous wagons line the near bank, and figures stand on the bridge and wade in the water on the left side of the photo. Numeric notation on recto: "745." Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric...

GLC05111.01.1085

Riverview with fields

The image shows woods in the foreground with a river and fields in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XII" and "23."

GLC05111.01.1086

Fortifications

The image shows a lone figure standing in front of spiked fortifications with vacant fields in the background. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "949."

GLC05111.01.1087

Fortifications

The image shows two figures standing on the extreme left of the photo. The camera is looking out of a fortification onto empty fields stretching into the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner" and what has later been crossed out: "Bombproof...

GLC05111.01.1088

Confederate fortifications at Gracie's Salient

The image shows extensive fortifications and bombproofs, with fields stretching into the distance. Inscription on verso: "Conf. fortifications at Gracie's Salient" and "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XI-III" and "1061." Written at Gracie's...

GLC05111.01.1089

Bombproof quarters

The image shows bombproof quarters with a foot bridge over a dry stream. Approximately 10 soldiers stand in the distance. Some wood debris litters the ground. Inscriptions on verso: "Bombproof quarters in Fed. Camps" and "Gardner." Numeric notations...

GLC05111.01.1090

One man sitting at the bottom of a hill

The image shows one man sitting at the bottom of a hill with a stick in his hands. He is next to what appears to be wooden fortifications. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "1080."

GLC05111.01.1091

City street in ruins

The image shows a city street in ruins. Brick chimneys are the only remainders of buildings that have been bombed and burned. Possibly Richmond, VA. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "1009."

GLC05111.01.1092

The crater at Petersburg

The image shows seven men in suits in various positions around a bomb crater, with a white dog in the photo, and a field lined by trees in the distance. Four buildings also sit in the background. Inscription on verso: "Petersburg Va the Crater."

GLC05111.01.1093

Burned building

The photo shows a building that has burned until only the exterior stone walls remain standing. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "VIII" "22" and "1161."

GLC05111.01.1094

Rebel lines at Vicksburg

The image shows fortifications on a hill overlooking an extensive valley, with cannons on top of the hill and two buildings in the lower right corner of the photo. Inscriptions on verso: "Rebel lines in rear of Vicksburg" "Collection of Americana...

GLC05111.01.1095

Battlefield possibly Gaines Mill or Cold Harbor

The image shows a debris littered battlefield that could be either Gaines Mill or Cold Harbor. Inscription on verso: "Gardner."

GLC05111.01.1096

Bomb ruins

The image shows the remaining brick chimneys of a burned and bombed building. The ruins are surrounded by trees, grass, and wild flowers. A horse rests in the center of the photo and a man sits on a rubble wall on the right edge. Inscription on verso...

GLC05111.01.1097

House in ruins surrounded by people

The image shows a large house, the roof of which has been destroyed with the three brick chimneys and exterior walls still standing. The house is surrounded by trees, a large grassy yard and a large group of people on horseback and on foot. There are...

GLC05111.01.1098

Soldier's monument

The image shows a large monument to the soldiers: "In Memory of the Patriots Who Fell at Groveton." Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "IV" and "1193."

GLC05111.01.1099