1863

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

The War in Tennessee--Union pickets approached by Rebels in cedar bush...

Two Union soldiers in foreground being approached by three Rebels camouflaged in bushes.

Abraham Lincoln to Andrew Johnson, Saturday, September 19, 1863 (Reco...

Hear us again for the wounded soldiers. They are suffering! They are d...

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 158, Folder 9.

[Studio portraits of Japanese women, the wife of an officer, and a hig...

Captions on front of item: "A half face pose showing style of powdering the neck" (upper left); ""As pensive I thought," &c." (upper right); "Wife of native officer" (lower left); and "Japanese high official i... More

Virginia. Headquarters, New York Herald. Army of the Potomac

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[Two long-necked creatures accosting a noodle shop customer]

Ukiyo-e print illustration showing Rokurokubi and Mikoshi-nyûdô, demons from Japanese folklore, frightening noodle shop customers to illustrate the proverb that "resistance is futile." Illus. in: Kyōsai hyakuzu... More

The effects of the proclamation - freed Negroes coming into our lines ...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 Feb. 21, p. 116. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charlotte Grimshaw, [April 26, 1863] (Statement on Clement J. Haas)

Rappahannock River near Beverly Ford, Virginia Sept. 9, 1863

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.181) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Washington, District of Columbia. Ambulance train at Harewood Hospital...

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

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 17.

Map of Surry, Sussex and Southampton counties, Virginia. /

"Chief Engineers Office D.N.V. Colonel J.F. Gilmer Chief Engineer."--appears above title. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virgi... More

Castle Murray, near Auburn, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan. po...

Photograph showing soldiers and their tents in front of the residence of Dr. Murray, a stone building called "the Castle." Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washingt... More

[Studio portraits of a Japanese officer in riding clothes, a student, ...

Captions on front of item: "A young Japanese officer in riding habilments" (upper left); "A Japanese student" (upper right); "A Japanese police officer" (lower left); and "Japanese infantry officer" (lower rig... More

[Studio portraits of the Commandant of Yokohama Garrison, a cabinet of...

Captions on front of item: "The Commandant of Yokohama Garrison" (upper left); "One of the Gorogio" (upper right); "Three friends meeting" (lower left); and "Japanese wrestlers in everyday garb" (lower right)... More

First blow for liberty - Public domain engraving

Print show scene at the Battle of Lexington, 1775. Engraving after a painting by F.O.C. Darley.

[Album dedication to Mrs. Eugenia Berry Mahon]

Handwritten dedication to album of cartes de visite from: Mrs. E. Pane Russell, Uls[ter] Co., N.Y.; Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy, Chel[s]ea, Mass.; Miss Caroline A. Burghardt, Grt. Bar[rington], Mass.; Miss Mary A. C... More

Simon Cameron to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, April 23, 1863 (Telegram ...

Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker, Wednesday, May 06, 1863 (Is Hooker ...

Plat of Murfreesboro. Taken from a top'l. sketch of Murfreesboro and i...

Scale not given. Map indicates streets and buildings. Sites occupied by the 14th and 21st Corps of the Army of the Cumberland, Department Headquarters, and the Quarter Master are identified. Photocopy (positive... More

Revival of the old slave laws of Louisiana--a scene in New Orleans--ar...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 March 7, p. 381.

[General John McArthur, 1826-1906, head and shoulders, facing left, in...

Photo copyrighted by Barr & Young (no. 31). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division (gift, John A. Logan 3rd); Dec. 1962. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.;... More

[Sketch of portions of seacoast of South Carolina & Georgia

Map showing the entrenchments around Wilmington /

Scale 1:7,920; 8 in. to 1 mile. Manuscript; pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil. Copy imperfect: Ink stained. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward the upper left. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 317... More

The Capitol, Nashville, (Tenn.)

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

Colonel [Hugh Judson] Kilpatrick's late cavalry raid through Virginia

During Chancellorsville campaign, 29 April - 8 May 1863. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1863 May 30, p. 348. Reference copy may be in LOT 4416 G (1863). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card,... More

Dr. Murray's house near Auburn, Virginia

Photograph shows soldiers outside of their tents at Army headquarters. No. 4209. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. ... More

Benjamin Balch, Wednesday, March 25, 1863 (Printed announcement; endo...

Enlistment of Sickles' brigade - Public domain book illustration

Satire on the disreputable class of men allegedly recruited in New York City by Colonel Daniel Sickles for the Excelsior brigade. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: Sketches from the Civil War in... More

Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia. View from Commissary Department

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Henry T. Blow, et al. to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, March 21, 1863 (T...

Contrabands building a levee on the Mississippi river, below Baton Rou...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 May 9, pp. 104-105.

Letter of Jabez C. Woodman, Esq. enclosing three hundred dollars to th...

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 27, Folder 18.

B. C. Sawyer to Alexander Montgomery, Tuesday, September 08, 1863 (Wr...

The new capitol, Columbia, S.C.

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 battle fields and military positions in eastern Virginia, from sur...

Scale ca. 1:450,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 480 "Presented by the Home Insurance Compy of New York." Inset: [Map of northern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and southern Pennsylvania] 16 x 32 cm. Gives name... More

[Civil War envelope showing woman holding flag with message "For the U...

Addressed to Mrs. Elizabeth D. Stebbings, Waterloo, Seneca County, N.Y.; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). pp/liljmem

Map of the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 1863, showi...

Scale ca. 1:13,100. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 357 Shows topography by hachures, vegetation, drainage, roads, railroads, houses, stonewalls, cultivated areas, churches, and cemeteries. Union and Confederate p... More

Sketch of Fort Fisher - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:1500. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 312 Large-scale plane of the fort showing the position, type and size of guns, and the location of "torpedoes," roads, buildings, rifle pits, telegraph station, ve... More

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

The United [States] iron-clad monitor "Weehawken" in the storm of 20th...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, no. 319 (1863 Feb. 7), p. 92.

Upper Potomac from McCoy's Ferry to Conrad's Ferry and adjacent portio...

Scale ca. 1:130,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 245.15 Map, without border, extends from Frederick, Maryland, west to Winchester, Virginia, and Hagerstown, Maryland, south to Front Royal, Virginia. Depicted a... More

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.

[Portraits of the executioner of Kanagawa with sword and prisoner, the...

Captions on front of item: "Executioner of Kanagawa" (upper left); [no caption] (upper right); "Chinese women" (lower left); and "Foochau woman" (lower right). Captions on back of item: "Executioner of Kanagaw... More

[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

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

Repairing Orange and Alexandria Railroad near Catlett's Station, after...

No. 448. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites an... 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.

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 showing siege operations against forts Sumter and Wagner, between ...

Scale ca. 1:6,750. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 389 Shows drainage, roads, high and low water line, 6-ft. and 12-ft. depth curve, batteries, trenches, stockades, and a plan of Fort Wagner. Fort Sumter does not ... More

General Custer and General Pleasanton, Warrenton, Virginia, October 18...

Photograph shows Brigadier General George A. Custer and Major General Alfred Pleasonton seated together. No. 371. Photographer information from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery ... More

The siege of Vicksburg, its approaches by Yazoo Pass and other routes

Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Body of Confederate sharpshooter

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Bealeton, Virginia. Capt. Cunningham of General T.F. Meagher's staff

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Cuthbert Bullitt to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, November 27, 1863 (Cover...

Falmouth, Virginia. A muss at headquarters, Army of the Potomac

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Col. J. W. Hofmann. 56th Penn. vols. Dear Sir: The "Camp Flag" of your...

On verso: Mc# 09-82-038.342 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 158, Folder 18a.

The veteran - Public domain scenic drawing

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.194) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Home in Charleston, S.C., American Civil War Glass Negative.

Ruins of home in Charleston, South Carolina and another house in background. Photograph by Haas and Peale. No. 46.

John A. Dix to Henry W. Halleck, Friday, January 30, 1863 (Telegram r...

[Robert C. Schenck] to Abraham Lincoln, November 4, 1863 (Envelope on...

The battle of Raymond / sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.

Illustrations showing views of different stages of the Battle of Raymond. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, no. 337 (1863 June 13), p. 372.

Daniel Morris to Abraham Lincoln, [1863] (Recommendation)

Joseph Hooker to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, May 04, 1863 (Telegram in r...

Tell Mother, I die happy. Words by C. A. Vosburgh, Music by Jabez Burn...

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

The Invasion of the North - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania / from a sketch b...

View of the city from across Susquehanna River. Reference copy in LOT 4416G (1863). Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 July 18, p. 461.

Unconditional Union Men of Western Arkansas, Friday, October 30, 1863 ...

Great Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn.--Jany, 2nd 1863: between the Union...

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified African American soldier in Union cavalry uniform with s...

Case: Berg, no. 1-52. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Regimental Headquarters, Falmouth, Va., 2011[?]. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Lib... More

Jeff Davis's last appeal to arms

Jefferson Davis making address to soldiers missing arms and legs. Illustration from: Harper's Weekly, 1863.

Sunday, May 3rd : [Map of the battle of Chancellorsville]

Relief shown by hachures. Title in lead pencil in upper margin. Date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil (some col.), mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H136 Available als... More

The Army of the Potomac in huts / / sketched by Theodore R. Davis. The...

Top illustration shows soldiers marching in front of log huts and one soldier cutting logs. Bottom illustration shows two black teamsters lashing each other with whips. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 Jan. 17, p. 33.

D. M. Leatherman to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, August 13, 1863 (Intro...

Andrew G. Curtin to John G. Nicolay, Thursday, December 17, 1863 (Req...

Skirmish at Triune - Newspaper, public domain, Library of Congress

Newspaper clipping reporting a battle at Triune, Tennessee, on June 11, 1863. Letter found with clipping processed as LOT 14043-3, no. 25; envelope found with clipping processed as LOT 14043-3, no. 27. Gift; T... More

[Studio portraits of Japanese officers (yaconin) and a high priest dre...

Captions on front of item: "Japanese calvary officer" (upper left); "Japanese officer" (upper right); "A Japanese officer (Yaconin)" (lower left); and "Japanese high priest in full canonicals" (lower right). C... More

A challenge! The rebellion of the southern traitors against the Union ...

Samuel A. Foot to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, June 16, 1863 (Praise for...

Richard Yates, et al. to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, October 06, 1863 (...

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

Print shows Union troops and contrabands constructing a canal near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 16, no. 391 (1863 March 28), p. 8-9.

Gettysburg and vicinity : showing the lines of battle, July, 1863, and...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Abraham Lincoln]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph shows full-length portrait of Lincoln seated at a table and leaning on a book. Ostendorf, no. 74. Meserve, no. 55. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photograph... More

S. Morrow to Ambrose E. Burnside, Saturday, August 01, 1863 (Petition...

The Potomac River, near Williamsport, on the morning of the crossing o...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.88) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Embossed red leather album back cover]

In album: Japanese and Chinese portraits, [back cover]. Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Culpeper, Virginia. Lt. Williston and horse. U.S. Horse Artillery

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Rebel raid in Pennslyvania, or That's just so. Composed, published...

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

Battlefield of Gettysburg. Bodies of dead Federal soldiers on the fiel...

No. 964. Hand written on verso: "See also B811-242". Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. II, p. 241". Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C... More

City of Boston. Boston water works ... You are hereby notified that th...

On verso: 1861(?). 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 25.

Columbia's glorious banner. By Wm. Sutherland. Winner & Co., ... No. 9...

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Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning, Saturday, June 13, 1863 (Cover le...

Abraham Lincoln to Zachariah Chandler, Friday, November 20, 1863 (Rep...

[Preliminary field sketches of parts of the Chancellorsville battlefie...

Some maps show troop positions. Relief shown by hachures on some maps. Title from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pencil (some col.) on ledger paper, mounted between sheets of transparent paper. LC Civil War... More

Plan of the Battle of Kelly's Ford, Va. : fought 7th November 1863.

Focuses on a small portion of the Rappahannock River close to the line dividing Culpeper and Fauquier counties, Va., and about 8 miles (as indentified by Sneden) from Brandy Station where the Battle of Kelly's ... More

Edwin M. Stanton to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, May 29, 1863 (Communicat...

[Edward H. Perkins, Co. "C" 6th Vt. Vols., head-and-shoulders portrait...

Printed on verso: Hugo Bartels' Photograph Gallery No. 262 Penna. Ave. bet. 12th & 13th Sts., Washington, D.C. Inscribed on verso: Truly your Friend, Ed. H. Perkins, Co. "C" 6th Vt. Vols., Mt. Pleasa[nt S]ept 27, 1863.

The war in Texas - The city of Matamoras, Mexico, opposite Brownsville...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 Dec. 5, p. 173.

Prospectus for publishing at Concord. N. H. a weekly newspaper, to be ...

Prospectus. 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 94, Folder 7.

Secretary's report of the Soldiers' aid society, Church of the Unity, ...

On verso: 20 Sept. 1863. 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 26.