1863

[Portrait of Emanuel Rudasill, Company M, 16th North Carolina Regiment...

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Titian J. Coffey to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, October 09, 1863 (Cover ...

John G. Nicolay to William H. Seward, Thursday, February 26, 1863 (Pr...

John P. Usher to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, January 15, 1863 (Removal...

Isaac Newton to Charles M. Wetherill, November 1863 (Wetherill's sala...

William H. Seward to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, January 21, 1863 (Ap...

Rebel works in front of Atlanta, Ga., no. 2

This record contains unverified data from shelflist. Plate from: Photographic views of Sherman's campaign / from negatives taken in the field by Geo. N. Barnard. New York : 1866. Published in: Photographic view... More

The head of the canal, opposite Vicksburg, Miss., now being cut by com...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 March 28, pp. 8-9.

The house that Jeff built - Public domain drawing

An extended and bitter indictment of Jefferson Davis and the Southern slave system. The work consists of a series of twelve vignettes with accompanying verse, following the scheme of the nursery rhyme "The Hous... More

Bealeton, Virginia. Officers of Signal Corps. Headquarters, Army of th...

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George du Maurier - Philip was audaciously mimicking Mrs. Winnington t...

Drawing of a Victorian parlor scene in which a young man stands gesturing before a group of seated and standing men and women. Three women are seated before him, while a young woman stands to the side of the r... More

Ulysses S. Grant to Henry W. Halleck, Wednesday, December 02, 1863 (T...

Staff officers at headquarters, Army of Potomac, April 1863

Capt. Alexander Moore, Capt. Harry Russell and Capt. W.L. Candler on horseback. No. 552. Civil War Collection. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data fr... More

[Map of the environs of Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863]

Title, scale, and date from Stephenson's Civil War Maps, 1989. Pen and ink sketch map drawn on tracing cloth, showing roads in red, principal rivers in blue, and "Vicksburg & Jackson R.R.," streams, towns, and ... More

Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade, Monday, July 27, 1863 (Corps comm...

Charleston Harbor and its approaches showing the positions of the Rebe...

Scale ca. 1:30,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 382 Another issue. Shows roads, railroads, houses, vegetation, a street plan of Charleston, drainage, soundings, and shoals. Enlarged issue covering all of James... More

New map of the seat of war in Virginia and Maryland

Scale ca. 1:360,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 477 Map of eastern Virginia and Maryland showing the location and date of battles, forts, roads, railroads, towns, drainage, and relief by hachures. Description... More

Gettysburg and vicinity, showing the position of the troops July 3, 18...

Scale ca. 1:15,840. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 336 "Land of battlefield Memorial Association tinted pink" and "land of General Crawford tinted blue." Indicates troop positions and movements, roads, "Gettysbur... More

Gettysburg battle-field. Battle fought at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1st, 2...

LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 324 Inset: Plan of the Soldiers National Cemetery. Uncolored. 6 x 12 cm. Endorsed (facsim.): I have examined Col. Bachelder's isometrical drawing of teh battle field of Gettysburg a... More

Ascension de la colossale Montgolfiére L'Aigle conduite par Eugène God...

Admission ticket to Eugène Godard's ascent in the balloon "L'Aigle" from a location in France. Includes a picture of a balloon decorated with flags and an eagle emblem. Tissandier collection.

One kind of patriotism. - Public domain portrait print

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Tom Thumb's grand wedding march, composed by E. Mack. Respectf...

Music sheet cover showing Tom Thumb and wife surrounded by ten other people.

Map of De Kalb Co., Indiana / - Public domain old map

"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863 by E.B. Gerber & C.A.O. Mc. Clellan in the Clerks Office of the district court of the dist. of Indiana." LC Land ownership maps, 141 Includes business dire... More

Difficulties of a working general among the bayous Bayou navigation in...

Four illustrations: men poling a flatboat; man seated on shore; soldiers along bayou; and a steamboat. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, no. 328 (1863 April 11), p. 225. DCRM(G) example 1F1.1 - Material without... More

Battle-field & environs of the city of Fredericksburg.

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Alexander Hunter, et al. to John Conness, Monday, July 20, 1863 (Reco...

Edwin M. Stanton to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, September 28, 1863 (Case...

Bealeton, Virginia. Company E, 93d New York Infantry

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Skirmish at Auburn, Virginia, Octr. 14th 1863

This map depicts a minor skirmish near Catlett's Station, Fauquier County, Va., part of the Bristoe Campaign. Union forces, including the 20th Indiana, 3rd Maine, and 40th New York regiments, are arrayed on a h... More

John G. Foster to Henry W. Halleck, Wednesday, December 02, 1863 (Tel...

Ninian W. Edwards to Edward Bates, Thursday, June 18, 1863 (Conduct a...

William A. Dubois to John G. Nicolay, Saturday, November 28, 1863 (Te...

To the citizens of Richmond! The President and the Governor of Virgini...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 187, Folder 24.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex. ss. To either of the constab...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 70, Folder 8.

George McDenate to John Conness, Monday, July 20, 1863 (Recommendatio...

Gen. Hunter and the negroes .... [New-York, 1863.

On verso: 10; MC# 09-82-038.217; {partial stamp} 61503. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Por... More

View of cavalliere [i.e., cavalier] taken from Central Gap, Port Hudso...

Photograph shows fortification constructed of stacked barrels. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Map of northwest Alabama and northeast Mississippi].

"Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989." Pen and ink manuscript map drawn on tracing cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S14 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

Montgomery C. Meigs to Thomas Swords, Wednesday, July 08, 1863 (Assig...

Vendue Range, Charleston, S.C.--The building on the left is where the ...

Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 3070. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3070. Brady-Handy Collection.

New Mexico Territory Legislature to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, January 2...

George F. Shepley to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, December 18, 1863 (Cott...

William H. Lambert, Capt. 33rd N.J. Infantry., U.S.A.

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Daniel Mace to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, July 09, 1863 (Introduces J...

Andrew G. Curtin to John G. Nicolay, Thursday, December 31, 1863 (Pro...

Map of supplementary reconnaissance of the approaches to Philadelphia ...

The battle of Chancellorsville Sunday, May 3rd, 1863 /

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north to left. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor mounted on cloth. Cameo impression in margin at bottom right: Reynolds's Bristolboard (w... More

Proclamation of emancipation. The second Declaration of Independence! ...

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American Freedmen's Friend Society, Thursday, May 28, 1863 (Printed c...

Sketch of Banks Ford. - Public domain vintage map

Shows fortifications and names of some residents on the Rappahannock above Fredericksburg. Relief shown by hachures. Date and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil (some col.) on ... More

A torpedo exploding under the "Montauk," in the Ogeechee River [Dest]r...

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Group at transportation office, Aquia Creek, Virginia

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Amerikajin - bango wakai - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese print shows an American couple conversing; includes text of Japanese translation.

John Jones to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, February 23, 1863 (Case of Isa...

[Tom Thumb, full-length portrait, facing left, standing by chair]

Carte de visite photograph. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Siege of Charleston - the magazine of Fort Moultrie exploded by a shel...

Wood engraving after sketch by W.T. Crane. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1863 Oct. 3. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. I.; US... More

John A. Jones to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, November 04, 1863 (Intro...

2nd attack on Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River, Georgia

Also shown is the result of an attack by Union Gen. William B. Hazen's 2nd Division, 15th Corps, 1864 December 13, which succeeded in taking the garrison. Shows a portion of Big Ogeechee River and indicates the... More

James G. Blaine to Joseph Holt, Thursday, June 18, 1863 (Dr. Cyrus D....

Map shewing [sic] advance of 6th Army Corps (Genl. John Sedgwick U.S.A...

In January of 1863 Joseph Hooker replaced Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac. His first order of business was to dislodge R. E. Lee from his position outside of Fredericksburg. Hooker envi... More

V. Forrest to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, May 09, 1863 (Arrest of Dr. ...

Eliza S. Quincy to Mary Todd Lincoln, Friday, January 02, 1863 (Celeb...

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[Morris Island, South Carolina], American Civil War Photograph, Glass ...

A black and white photo of a forest. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portions of the military departments of Virginia, Washington, Middle &...

Differs from LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 47.2 and 47.3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. LC copy signed by Gen. M. C. Meigs and annotated in pencil.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. General George G. Meade's headquarters

An old black and white photo of a farm. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John C. Ten Eyck to John G. Nicolay, Thursday, January 15, 1863 (Intr...

[Unidentified young man, full-length studio portrait, standing in fron...

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The battle of Gettysburg - Longstreet's attack upon our left centre - ...

Wood engraving after drawing by A.R. Waud. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1863 Aug. 8. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Thomas M. Howe, et al. to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, June 14, 1863 (Req...

The war in Virginia - Explosion of a torpedo under the Commodore Barne...

Masthead and illustration of the Union gunboat Commodore Barney blown in air by torpedo (underwater mine). Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 16, no. 413 (1863 Aug. 29), p. 357.

Captain Craig of Flints staff. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Full length portrait. Public domain scan of 19th century American drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hugh W. Mercer, of Georgia, Brigadier General, C.S.A., half-length po...

Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

West front of the U.S. Capitol at Washington, D.C., as it appeared the...

Photograph showing Capitol building with scaffolding surrounding Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom atop the dome.

Hurrah for Andrew Curtin. By Kate Moncrieff. Phila., Oct. 5, 1863

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[President Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Copy negative was made from a photograph in a private collection. Ostendorf, no. 77 Meserve, 59 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p.... More

Destruction of bridge telegraph tanks Etc. in Warrenton Junction

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower left: hoops of tanks on front. Formerly Waud no. B-6. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.771) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Stephen A. Hurlbut to Henry W. Halleck, Saturday, May 23, 1863 (Teleg...

John Trimble Jr. to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, July 06, 1863 (Sends res...

Andrew Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, December 11, 1863 (Telegra...

Prayer at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Thurs...

"An authentic copy, free from errors in the newspaper reports."

John W. Forney to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, October 13, 1863 (Telegra...

Map of operations of the Yazoo Pass expedition under command of Lt. Co...

Scale ca. 1:225,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 269.5 From Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with an appendix, containing reports from officers. December, 1863 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1863... More

Letter from John W. Brett, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Submarine tele...

Field, Cyrus W.; Trans-Atlantic cable. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Eph... More

The war in the southwest - Adjutant-General Thomas addressing the Negr...

Print shows a large crowd of African American men, women, and children, some wearing military uniforms, listening to Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas speak "on the duties and responsibilities of freedom."

Works thrown up near Rappahannock R.R. Bridge

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed below image: Bridge on fire. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 7, 1863, p. 716 as: Works thrown up near the Railroad Bridge over the Rappah... More

Secretary Chase's Grand March, composed for the piano

"To the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury." Music cover illustrated with fifty dollar United States Treasury note on top of 2 other U.S. Treasury notes. LOT subdivision subject: Money. Title and ... More

The war in Mississippi - General McPherson's army crossing the Big Bla...

Wood engraving after sketch by Fred B. Schell. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1863 Nov. 28, p. 153. Reference copy may be available in LOT 4416 G (1863). This record contains unverified, old d... More

William J. Nicholls to James L. Ridgely, Saturday, December 19, 1863 ...

Map of a part of Brunswick County, N.C.

"Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virginia Historical Society by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Minis, Sav[ana]h, Ga."--Note on map... More

[President Abraham Lincoln seated with his secretaries John Hay and Jo...

Photo shows President Abraham Lincoln seated between his private secretaries John G. Nicolay and John Hay at a photo session in Alexander Gardner's studio in Washington, D.C., on November 8, 1863. "On this day ... More

Map of Louisa County, Virginia. - Public domain old map

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To the laboring men of New York. Comrades: do you want to pay heavy ta...

Signed: A Democratic Workingman.

Map of New Kent, Charles City, James City and York counties.

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A settlers hut on the Red river

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title on recto. Inscribed below title, lower left: Dug out; and upper right: 31. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.10) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Washington, D.C., April 1865 [i.e. 1863?]

Photograph showing bird's-eye view of the Smithsonian Institution building in the near distance with the Capitol building in the background. No. B1133. Date of 1863 and attribution to Mathew Brady Studio based... More

[Morris Island (vicinity), South Carolina. The "Marsh Battery" or "Swa...

A man standing on top of a stone building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cavalry outpost, near Potomac Creek. Daybreak on a cold morning

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.162) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Donn Piatt to Thomas G. Pratt, Monday, November 30, 1863 (Cover lette...

Culpeper, Virginia (vicinity). Residence of John Minor Botts

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Samuel Magaw to Andrew A. Harwood, Sunday, May 03, 1863 (Telegram rep...