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Co. D 149th Pa. Infantry, Nov. 6, 1864. [red mount]

Title from inscription on recto. Also inscribed on recto "7047"; "Page 13"; "152" and "20".

GLC05111.01.0315

Provost Marshal General Marsena R. Patrick and staff, Culpeper, VA. [September 1863] by Gardner [red mount]

Nearly the identical photo can be seen by Gardner, the exception being the banner above the portico is missing in this image.
See GLC 5111.01.0209, .0415.

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Surgeons HQ, 3rd Division, 9th Corps, [Petersburg, VA.] [August 1864 ca.] [red mount]

Identification from the sign on the pole above the officers. Also, inscription reads the same.

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Barn and farm buildings on a distant hill. [Malvern Hill] [1862-1865 ca.]

Photograph is taken upon a hill and looks across to a barn and farm buildings (partially obscured by trees) on another hill. Illegible pencil inscription on recto. The photograph accompanies a series on Malvern Hill and is on a bluish-gray mount.

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View of trees across a sandy, brush-covered landscape. [1862-1865 ca.]

Sandy landscape with small brush in foreground. A group of trees dominates the middle of the image and a forest is visible in the distance. The photograph accompanies a series on Malvern Hill and is on a bluish-gray mount.

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View of field and forest in distance beyond a sandy landscape in foreground. [1862-1865 ca.]

Graphite inscription on recto: "Guide to Redwood." The photograph accompanies a series on Malvern Hill and is on a bluish-gray mount.

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View of fence and forest distance, field in foreground. [1862-1865 ca.]

Graphite inscriptions on recto: "No use" and "14." The photograph accompanies a series on Malvern Hill and is on a bluish-gray mount.

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Panoramic view of Knoxville, Tenn. March 21, 1864. [four images, 360 degree view]

Four images numbering 8494 - 8497. The images were taken from the cupola of the University of Tennessee. The images have been reduced by the photographer in different scales. Collateral note says "The right on No. 1 should join the left of No. 2...

GLC05111.01.0337

Headquarters of Brig. Gen. Williams [3rd Brigade, Banks' Division] near Darn[e]stown, Md., [on Muddy Branch]. [1861 ca.]

Title acquired from inscribed information on mount. Unknown photographer. A row of soldiers stand at attention to the left of the flag pole.

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Rail bridge across the Tennessee River at Bridgeport, Ala. [1864 ca.]

Railroad bridge on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad. This was the fourth bridge constructed at this spot, the previous three being destroyed by the Confederates. The broad wagon-way below the railroad trestles can be seen.

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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...

GLC05111.01.0341

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...

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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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Colonel Martin S. Crawford, 3d Ga. Inf. [standing full portrait as civilian]

Carte de visite negative. Crawford elegantly dressed as a civilian, standing with one foot forward and hand draped over a stand. Crawford served as a colonel in the 3d Ga. Inf. C.S.A. He also served as Confederate Commissioner to Washington, and was...

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Government Repair Shop and large group of workers, Washington, D.C. [1865 ca.]

A long white Government Repair Shop stretches across the image with a large group of workers standing on the wooden sidewalk out front. Two men are off by themselves, one of whom appears to be either a soldier or policeman, on the right side of the...

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Distinguished officers. Confederate Navy [3 joined CDV collodion negatives]

Negative containg three images of the same carte de visite for reproduction. The carte contains trimmed oval photographs of seven naval figures (from the top, left to right): Lieut. Maury, Comm. Hollins, Comm. Semmes. Adml. Buchanan. Lieut. Reed...

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James Longstreet. Lt. Gen. C.S.A. 20 30-3 [CDV negative in brass plate]

Carte de visite. Collodion glass plate negative presented as an ambrotype. Glass negative accompanied by modern contact print from the negative. Showsa mature Longstreet in civilian clothing (probably 4/1865). Glass carte de visite negative is in a...

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William H. Morris, Br. M.G. Vols. [standing portrait, Napoleon pose]

Carte de visite negative. Title from original envelope. Inscription of Rinhart on envelope: "Original collodion negative by M.B. Brady." The "Brady N.Y." is scratched into the negative. LIMITED USE: USE COPY PRINT.

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William H. Morris, Br. M.G. Vols. [partial profile with medal, large moustache]

Carte de visite negative. Copy negative of another CDV for reproduction; CDV has printed "Brady. New York" mount. Very dark glass negative, half-length, partial portrait. Probably end of war or post-war. Wearing medal and sports a large mustache....

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Glass plate negative of Adm. D. D. Porter, standing, full length frontal, holding hat.

Carte de visite negative. Carte de visite format, rather deteriorated, dark image with Porter standing next to chair. LIMITED USE: USE COPY PRINT.

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Glass plate negative of Adm. D. D. Porter, seated, half-length holding gloves

Carte de visite negative. Copy negative of another CDV for reproduction. Not an original collodion negative gelatin copy negative. Accompanied by later print, some re-photographing early portraits, also photo of CDV "Ad. D.D. Porter" (same pose as...

GLC05111.01.0487

Unidentified civilian in plaid bow tie holding gun & sword [ambrotype] [cased]

Cased. Oval brass mat removed from photograph by previous owner and placed inside the image case. 9th plate ruby type

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Unidentified artillery soldier, 1/2 length portrait, wearing kepi [tintype]

His buttons have been painted gold and the piping around his collar has been painted red (for artillery). Red 5 cent tax stamp on verso, canceled in September 1864 by Bell & Bro.

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Robert Anderson button with his tintype portrait [fastener has fallen off]

Measure is diameter of the button. A youthful portrait of Anderson. The raised inscription on the button around the image reads: "Stand by the stars and stripes."

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Field Hospital, 1st Divison, 2nd Army Corps, Brandy Station. [Feb. 1864 ca.] [copy 2]

The image shows a camp consisting of rough cabins with tents stretched over them as roofs. The soldiers are posed in front of the structures. Note the woman standing in the midst of the soldiers on the right hand side of the image.
See GLC 5111.01...

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Field Hospital, 1st Divison, 2nd Army Corps, Brandy Station. [Feb. 1864 ca.] [variant]

The image shows a camp consisting of rough cabins with tents stretched over them as roofs. The soldiers are posed in front of the structures. Note that in this image, there are fewer people and the woman stands apart from the soldiers.
See GLC 5111...

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Winter camps, Brandy Station, [April-May 1864 ca.]

Image of a young contraband leaning against a chimney standing in the middle of Federal army camp shortly before Grant's Wilderness offensive of May 1864.

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Head-Quarters Army of the Potomac, Brandy Station, Va. [February 1864 ca.]

Zouaves from the 114th Penn. standing in front of wall of brush with winter quarters and tents in background. Thrown up on the wall of brush to dry out are government issued wool blankets and canvas shelter-halves. The men wear their dress uniforms...

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Evergreen Cemetery Gatehouse, Gettysburg, Pa. [July 7, 1863]

Taken by O'Sullivan. Frassanito states that this is the earliest known photograph of the gatehouse after the battle. The artillery earthworks occupied by Stewart's Battery B, 4th U.S. Arty. can be seen in the foreground. Seated in the wagon that is...

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Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior view of the "Pulpit" [earthen rampart]. [January 1865 ca.]

The image shows the earthen bomproof rampart [the "pulpit"] at Fort Fisher with the ocean in the background. Two chimneys constucted out of bricks can be seen along with seven soldiers lounging in and around the shelters. Two men lean on posts by...

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Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Pa. [July 6, 1863]

Washed out image of the bare, rocky western face of Little Round Top. In the right foreground is the Slaughter Pen, denoted by the large boulders and Plum Run ["Bloody Run"] in the extreme right bottom corner. Inscription on verso: "Gardner."...

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

Three women, two men, and little girl sit on the steps of the McLean house. Half of a seventh person is visible. Inscription on verso: "The McLean House." Photo is attached to board which has an illustration on verso of dogs and cats drinking from...

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Federal soldiers and officers stand around the "Dictator," a massive rail mortar, Petersburg, Va. [October 1864 ca.]

The guns crew and officers stand around the "Dictator," mounted on a rail car. The two officers in the foreground are Colonel H.L. Abbot, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, and General H.J. Hunt, Chief of Artillery of the Army of the Potomac....

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Officers and men of Co. K, 1st U.S. Cavalry [1st Division, Cavalry Corps], Brandy Station, Va. [February 1864 ca.]

The image shows a three-rowed line of cavalrymen holding sabres, both seated and standing on a slope behind three standing officers. Several tall, thin trees project from the background. Buglers are seated on the left side of the image in the front...

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Fort Fisher interior view of parapet and traverse including cannon in background and flooding. [January 1864 ca.]

Four Federal soldiers stand atop a tall sand parapet. Wooden stairs lead up to the top where a cannon looks over the other side. There is a great amount of flooding on the lower right side of the image and resting by the water at the base of the...

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Federal Battery No. 1 in front of Yorktown, May 1862 ca.

The battery well entrenched and six large Parrot rifles peek out above the fortifications. A river appears to run through the far background.

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Improvised Breastworks, Cold Harbor, Va. [June 1864 ca.]

The makeshift breastworks are comprised of a large fallen tree reinforced by numerous branches and sticks.

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