1865, civil war

Miss Clara Barton. Female portrait of American Civil War time by Mathe...

Original Caption: Miss Clara Barton..U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-1857..From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)..Photographer: B... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army

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[Sketches of details of bunting for Lincoln's funeral]

Drawing of architectural details. Relates to President Abraham Lincoln laying in state at the Illinois statehouse in Springfield, Ill., May 3-4,1865. (Source: Mark Johnson, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Officers and men, 3d Regiment, Massa...

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Petersburg, Virginia. Fortifications in front of Petersburg

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[Major General George Armstrong] Custer, American Civil War Photograph...

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Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of Gallego Mills

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Graveyard of Circular Church and ruins of Secession Hall in distance, ...

Civil War Collection (Library of Congress) - Brady-Handy Studio. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: War damage; C.W.; Geogr.; Cemeteries.

View of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), showing the debris, shot, and shel...

Stereograph showing ruins of artillery among the rocks on the exterior of Fort Sumter.

Farmville, Virginia (vicinity). Distance view of High bridge of the So...

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District of Columbia. Headquarters of General Martin D. Hardin at Fort...

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[Northern Georgia and western and central South Carolina].

Relief shown by hachures. Lower right margin: The Norris Peters Co., Photo-Litho., Washington, D.C. Lacks the name of the cartographer, and the lithographers' names have been changed from H. Lindenkohl & Chas. ... More

President's car, Alexandria - A black and white photo of a train

Photograph shows the president's rail car at the Alexandria station. Photograph probably taken in Jan. The car was later used as Lincoln's funeral car.

Map prepared to exhibit the campaigns in which the Army of the Cumberl...

Scale 1:1,267,200. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 84 Map of South Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and parts of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia, showing roads, railroads, towns, rive... More

Campaigns of the Civil War in the East.

16904 U.S. Copyright Office Scale ca. 1:10,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 71c.2 Copyright, 1910, by A. B. Adlerman. "Plate no. 8" in the lower right margin. Map of the South Atlantic states showing "Sher... More

Defences of Charleston S.C. Fortifications on Sullivan's Island

Scale ca. 1:4000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 384.7 From Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of th... More

John Brown exhibiting his hangman, Confederate States of America.

Northern rejoicing at the end of the Civil War often took the form of vengeful if imaginary portrayals of the execution of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Here abolitionist martyr John Brown rises from t... More

Jeff's double quick. The last words of the Confederacy: "Jeff's war ho...

Another comic version of Confederate President Jefferson Davis's ignominious capture by Union troops in May 1865. (See also "The Chas-ed "Old Lady" of the C.S.A.," no. 1865-11.) Here Davis, clad as a woman and... More

"Is all dem Yankees dat's passing?"

Caricature showing black woman on porch looking at large number of Union troops marching by (Sherman's march through Georgia). Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Jan. 7, p. 16.

Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army

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Prospect Hill, Virginia. Signal station at camp of 13th New York Caval...

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Richmond, Virginia. Pratt's castle on Gamble's Hill

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Poplar Grove, Virginia. Officer's quarters and church. 50th New York E...

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Hoge, Honorable, John Blair of W.Va. Delegate to Democratic National C...

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Map showing the operations of the Army of the Potomac under command of...

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Appomattox Court House, Virginia. McLean house

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Poe, General, O.M. U.S.A., American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negati...

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Thayer, Honorable John Milton of Wyoming & Nebraska. Brig Gen & major ...

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Petersburg, Virginia. Earthworks in front of Petersburg

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Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. View of Maryland Heights

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General Henry S. Gansevoort and staff, Prospect Hill, Virginia (near W...

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[Washington, District of Columbia (vicinity)]. General James A. Hall, ...

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Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia. Man arrested on suspicion ...

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Military prisons at Charleston, South Carolina / sketched by Lieutenan...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 9, no. 425 (1865 February 18), p. 108.

Washington, District of Columbia. Officers of 9th or 10th U.S. Veteran...

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Payne, William H. C.S.A., American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negativ...

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Robbins, Rep. William McKendree of N.C. Maj. in 4th Ala. Infantry. C.S...

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Honorable Alpheus S. Williams of Mich. Commissioned Brig. General of M...

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Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army. Troops pas...

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View of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter). Interior, showing remains of a cas...

Stereograph showing a fortified enclosure on the parapet, and gabions used as reinforcements inside Fort Sumter.

Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Dismounted gun

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[Mounted cavalry riding past reviewing stand during the "grand review"...

No. 1252. On verso: Grand Review of Army, Wash. D.C., May 1865. Printed 1905 by Handy Studio, Washington, D.C.

Surgeon General Barnes - attended Lincoln, American Civil War Photogra...

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Richmond, Virginia. Burnt district - 19th century Virginia.

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[Washington, D.C. Spectators at side of the Capitol, which is hung wit...

No. 748. Hand-written on back of mount: Grand Review of Army, Wash. D.C., May 1865, scene at Capitol. Printed 1905 by Handy Studio, Washington, D.C. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Title ... More

Maj. H.H. Humphrey and others, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Ne...

Three Civil War Union soldiers, drinking outside a canopied living quarters area, African American on right holding bottle. Original neg. no.: LC-B817-7406.

Washington, District of Columbia. [General Martin D. Hardin's] headqua...

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Post office department. The nation mourns his loss. He still lives in ...

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Campaigns of the Civil War in the West.

16903 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright, 1910, by A. B. Adlerman. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 71c.4 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a r... More

Holt, Judge Jos. General in U.S. Army

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Lincoln [second] Inauguration, 1884 [i.e. 1865]

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"As if he had been in a bottle strongly corked" / W.H.T.

Photographic reproduction of drawing shows caricature of Brigadier General Benjamin Franklin Butler inside a corked bottle referring to a quotation about Butler by U.S. Grant: "... as completely shut off from f... More

Benet, General S.V. U.S.A., American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negat...

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Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Chimkend i ego ulichnye tipy. [no caption]

Photograph shows a man sitting on a horse in Chimkent. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 54.

Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of Gallego Mills. Interior view

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View of Ft. Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), showing a mingled mass of debris, s...

Stereograph showing two men seated on rocks amidst the debris of Fort Sumter. One man leans on a damaged cannon. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony... More

Gordon, Honorable John B. of Georgia. Senator. (also General - Confede...

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Panoramic view, the ruins of Charleston, S.C., Roman Catholic Cathedra...

Stereograph showing a young man seated on the ruins of exterior stairs. The ruins of several buildings, and the cathedral are in the distance. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Hand... More

Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (vicinity). Sling for heavy artillery

Photo shows the equipment used by Union troops to remove heavy artillery pieces from Drewry's Bluff, which was on the James River and part Confederate defenses for Richmond, Virginia, until evacuated in April 1865.

Isaac N. Arnold to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, March 13, 1865 (Arnold wi...

Interior of Chief Detective Colonel Baker's office, opposite Willard's...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Wood engraving after W.T. Crane. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 20, no. 503 (1865 May 20), p. 133.

General Ferrero and staff, Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virginia

Stereograph showing General Edward Ferrero and staff on the steps of a building in Petersburg, Virginia. No. 3333. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright in 1865 by E. & H. T. A... More

McLean's House, Appomattox Court-House, Virginia where the capitulatio...

Photograph showing a group of people seated on the steps of the brick house in which the terms of surrender were signed on the ninth of April 1865 in the village of Appomattox Court House. Illus. in: Gardner's... More

District of Columbia. Soldiers' cemetery near Fort Stevens (Brightwood...

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Bailey, Honorable James Edmund of Tenn. (Colonel 49th Tenn. Infantry. ...

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Bacon, John M. U.S.N/, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

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Richmond, Virginia. Ballard house on Franklin Street. (Photographer's ...

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Richmond, Virginia. Burnt district - 19th century Virginia.

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Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army

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Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia (vicinity). A 10-inch Columbiad...

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Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor, S.C., April...

Stereograph showing crowd at the flag-raising ceremony inside Fort Sumter on the occasion of the anniversary of Major General Anderson's surrender four years earlier. Part of series: The War for the Union. Phot... More

[Fort Fisher, defensive work protecting the entrance to the port of Wi...

LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 313 Stamped in the lower right corner "From Collection of David Dixon Porter." Similar to pl. 67, no. 1, in the Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ... More

Appomattox Station, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive b...

Photograph showing tracks at the Appomattox railroad station where a train containing provisions for the Confederate Army was overtaken by Union forces.

Petersburg, Virginia. Earthworks in front of Petersburg

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Pontoon bridges across James River, Richmond Virginia

Photograph shows an aerial view of the James River with a pontoon bridge going across it. No. B841. Mounted with four other photographs with general caption: Views in Richmond, Va., April, 1865. Photograph is ... More

Isaac N. Arnold to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, February 28, 1865 (Seeks...

Quartermaster's Office at 7th St. Wharf, Wash., D.C.

Fourteen men posed in front. Brady-Handy Studio. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 876.

War views. No. 1997, Ruins of P.M. Gen'l M. Blair's residence, MD

Stereograph shows several citizens standing among the ruins of Postmaster General Montgomery Blair's home, which was destroyed by Confederate forces during a raid on July 12, 1864. Caption continues: Destroyed... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Blandford church, American Civil War Glass Negat...

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Washington, District of Columbia (vicinity). Headquarters of defenses ...

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Tyner, Honorable James N. of Ind. (Post-Master General in Grant's Admn...

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Dutch Gap Canal. Taken after the bank was blown out

Stereograph showing partial view of the canal on the James River in Virginia. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright in 1865 by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Forms part of: Civil War... More

Artillery camp at City Point, January 1865

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Petersburg, Virginia. [Confederate Fort McGilvery] - 19th century Virg...

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Terry, Honorable William Rep of Virginia Lt. In 4th Virginia Infantry....

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Davis, Honorable George R. of Ill. Capt in 8th Massachusetts Vol Infan...

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Dead Confederates in the trenches of Fort Mahone, April 3, 1865

No. B654. Photographer's name from photographic print from the same negative at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Dead Confederates at Ft. Mahone,... More

Thornburgh, Honorable Jacob Montgomery of Tenn. Lt. Colonel 4th Tenn. ...

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Honorable Charles Devens of Massachusetts. Atty General Hayes Cabinet

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Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of building and Richmond & Petersburg Railro...

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Petersburg, Virginia. Camp of 2d Wisconsin Infantry

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Hawley, Honorable John B. of Ill. M.C. [crossed out], Capt. of Co. H, ...

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Matthews, Honorable Stanley of Ohio, Lt. Colonel Of 23rd Ohio Infantry...

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Woodworth, Honorable Laurin Dewey of Ohio. Maj. In 104th Ohio Vol Infa...

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Capt. [John J] Huff's clerk

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Petersburg, Virginia. Confederate fortifications at "Gracie's Salient....

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Petersburg, Virginia. Street - 19th century Virginia.

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Contrabands accompanying the line of Sherman's march through Georgia /...

Four illustrations: contrabands accompaning the line of Sherman's march through Georgia; dead girl(?) on bed and man standing alongside; John Garth and Olivia Ruthermayne seated; Ruthermayne escutcheon (barber supplies).

[General William Sherman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 1865

Photograph shows group of Federal soldiers with rifles. For larger image of portrait, see LOT 4165-G, no. 70.