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American Civil War Stereoscopic Views, 1861-1865Created by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1865
During the Civil War, photographers produced thousands of stereoviews. Stereographs were popular during American Civil War. A single glass plate negative capture both images using a Stereo camera. Prints from these negatives were intended to be looked at with a special viewer called a stereoscope, which created a three-dimensional ("3-D") image.

This collection includes glass stereograph negatives, as well as stereograph card prints.
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[Dead soldiers lying side by side in a field]

[Dead soldiers lying side by side in a field]

Photograph shows dead Confederate soldiers at the southwestern edge of the Rose Woods, probably on July 5th or 6th, 1863 (Source: Early photography at Gettysburg / by William A. Frassanito. Gettysburg, Pa. : Th... More

Richmond, Virginia (vicinity). Camp Lincoln. American Civil War glass negative.

Richmond, Virginia (vicinity). Camp Lincoln. American Civil War glass ...

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Camp Lincoln near Richmond, June 1862. Corresponding print is in LOT 4170. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, P... More

Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge. Southeastern view

Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge. Southeastern view

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Burnside Bridge South Eastern view, Sept. 1862. Corresponding print is in LOT 4167-C. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of ... More

Gloucester, Virginia. Fortifications showing a 11-inch smooth-bore Dahlgren naval gun

Gloucester, Virginia. Fortifications showing a 11-inch smooth-bore Dah...

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Fortifications at Gloucester, showing the water battery. June 1862. Annotation from negative, stereo label: A Dahlgren 11-inch Smooth-bore naval... More

The home of a rebel sharpshooter, on battle field of Gettysburg

The home of a rebel sharpshooter, on battle field of Gettysburg

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4168. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information... More

Evacuation of Port Royal, Virginia, May 30, 1864

Evacuation of Port Royal, Virginia, May 30, 1864

Horses on bank as United Army personnel cross pontoon bridge onto waiting boats. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). The war for the Union, photographic war history. No. 2492. Original glass ... More

[Bayoneted rifles on racks at arsenal of 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Kentucky] / From Carbutt's Garden City Photographic Gallery. 131 Lake Street, Chicago.

[Bayoneted rifles on racks at arsenal of 134th Illinois Volunteer Infa...

Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:122). 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 ... More

[Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry drilling at Columbus, Kentucky]

[Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry drilling at Colum...

Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:122). 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 ... More

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry sitting in tent at Columbus, Kentucky

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry sitting in tent at...

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 and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

War views. No. 2041, Bounty brokers looking out for substitutes

War views. No. 2041, Bounty brokers looking out for substitutes

Stereograph shows a line of men standing outside a recruitment office looking for men to enlist in the army for the bonuses offered by local, state, or federal agencies. (DLC/PP-2012:069.07)

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

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

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va. Pratts Castle, Gamble Hill. Photographer: Alexander Gardner. File print in LOT 4162-C. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-18... More

Washington monument, in the Capitol grounds, Richmond, Virginia The statues around the centre base are those of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson & Mason

Washington monument, in the Capitol grounds, Richmond, Virginia The st...

Stereograph showing the Washington Monument with an equestrian statue of George Washington in the grounds of Capitol Square, Richmond, Virginia. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Dat... More

Chevaux-de-Frise in front of the Rebel Works at Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virginia

Chevaux-de-Frise in front of the Rebel Works at Petersburgh (i.e. Pete...

Stereograph showing a barricade composed of long wooden spikes attached to a wooden frame placed by Confederate soldiers in front of parapets. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Capti... More

Richmond, Virginia. Libby prison on Cary street

Richmond, Virginia. Libby prison on Cary street

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va., Libby Prison. On Cary Street. Photographer: Alexander Gardner. File print in LOT 4162-C. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861... More

Richmond, Virginia. Libby prison on Cary street

Richmond, Virginia. Libby prison on Cary street

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va., Libby Prison. On Cary Street. File print in LOT 4162-B. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Print... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army. Interior view of grandstand

Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army. Interior v...

Photographer name attribution from Civil War caption books. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Grand review of Army in Washington, DC, May 1865. Corresponding print is in LOT 4198... More

Richmond, Virginia. Federal soldiers in front of City Hall

Richmond, Virginia. Federal soldiers in front of City Hall

Photographer name attribution from Civil War caption books. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, VA, City Hall. File print in LOT 4162-C. Credit line: Civil war photograph... More

The Funeral of President Lincoln, New-York, April 25th, 1865

The Funeral of President Lincoln, New-York, April 25th, 1865

Stereograph showing bird's-eye view of marchers in Lincoln's funeral procession proceeding down Broadway away from the viewer. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by E. & H.T Anthony & Co., ... More

View of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor, S.C., taken from the sand bar

View of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor, S.C., taken fro...

Stereograph showing three men standing on the sandbar next to a boat with three men inside. The exterior of Fort Sumter is in the distance. No. 3133. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History.... More

Broadway Landing, Appomattox River, Virginia. Supply boats and stores

Broadway Landing, Appomattox River, Virginia. Supply boats and stores

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Landing stores and artillery at Yorktown, VA, Broadway Landing, VA[?]. Corresponding print is in LOT 4175. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1... More

[Interior view of a large convention hall filled with people sitting in chairs]

[Interior view of a large convention hall filled with people sitting i...

Gift; Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, Massachusetts; 1933; (DLC/PP-1933:0070). Date based on use of the 35-star flag in decorations around the hall.

[Maquette of Union soldier for Roxbury Soldiers' Monument and other sculptures at the studio of Martin Milmore in Boston, Massachusetts]

[Maquette of Union soldier for Roxbury Soldiers' Monument and other sc...

47274 U.S. Copyright Office. Transfer; Manuscript Division; July 2, 1928; (DLC/PP-1928:47274)

Battle-field of Gettysburg - Effect of Union shot and shell on the trees on Culp's Hill

Battle-field of Gettysburg - Effect of Union shot and shell on the tre...

Broken and fallen trees on Gettysburg battlefield. Tipton & Myers' stereoscopic views series. No. 533.

[Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876: "Mach. Hall, Krupp Exhibit from rear (showing large wheeled cannon)"]

[Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876: "Mach. Hall, Krupp Exhibit ...

Stereo copyrighted by Centennial Photo. Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War Navy, US Vessels; BI Business; Exhibitions 1876; Interiors; Shelf. Krupp... More

[View from the Petersburg railroad depot, Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War]

[View from the Petersburg railroad depot, Richmond, Virginia, during t...

Anaglyph stereograph made from a digital image of a stereograph card, published by E. & H.T. Anthony in 1865. (Call number: LOT 4162, no. 207, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18951) Gift; Matt Raymond; 2011;... More

Man standing under a tree on the Rebel Barnwell place in Beaufort County, South Carolina Sam A. Cooley, photographer Tenth Army Corps

Man standing under a tree on the Rebel Barnwell place in Beaufort Coun...

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by Library staff from record for another copy of the stereo held at University of South Carolina, South Caroliniana Library, http://digital.tcl.s... More

Portrait of Maj. General Mansfield Lovell, officer of the Confederate Army

Portrait of Maj. General Mansfield Lovell, officer of the Confederate ...

Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 1037 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Corresponding print is in LOT ... More

Washington, D.C. Mess hall at Harewood Hospital, heated by elaborate stoves

Washington, D.C. Mess hall at Harewood Hospital, heated by elaborate s...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the hospitals. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0805 Title from Mi... More

Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia Confederate brass mountain howitzers

Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia Confederate brass mountain howitzers

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0863 Title from Milh... More

City Point, Virginia View of waterfront with Federal supply boats

City Point, Virginia View of waterfront with Federal supply boats

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library... More

St. Augustine, Florida. Water front. American Civil War glass negative.

St. Augustine, Florida. Water front. American Civil War glass negative...

Caption from negative sleeve: [waterfront, St. Augustine, Fla.]. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3534B) and right (LC-B811-3534A) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in LOT 4164-B. Credit line: C... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Sanitary Commission rest house

Washington, District of Columbia. Sanitary Commission rest house

Caption from negative sleeve: Wash. D.C., Sanitary Commission Rest House. Two plates (LC-B811-1201B and LC-B811-1201A) are variant views of a stereograph. File print in LOT 4161-A and 4161-C. Credit line: Civil... More

Alexandria, Virginia (vicinity). General Samuel P. Heintzelman's headquarters at Fort Lyon

Alexandria, Virginia (vicinity). General Samuel P. Heintzelman's headq...

Caption from negative sleeve: Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman's Hdqrs. Fort Lyon, Va., vicinity of Alexandria, Va. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2305A) and right (LC-B811-2305B) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresp... More

City Point, Virginia. Building storehouse and railroad depot

City Point, Virginia. Building storehouse and railroad depot

Caption from negative sleeve: R.R. Depot, City Point, Va. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2461B) and right (LC-B811-2461A) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in LOT 4164-F and LOT 4175. Credit l... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Chain bridge

Washington, District of Columbia. Chain bridge

Caption from negative sleeve: Chain Bridge, near Washington. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2290A) and right (LC-B811-2290B) halves of a stereograph pair. File print in LOT 4161-F. Credit line: Civil war photogr... More

West College, or "Old West," a part of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

West College, or "Old West," a part of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pe...

Photograph shows a view of the grounds in front of West College, designed by Benjamin LaTrobe, with several students standing outside of the building. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title de... More

Carlisle Barracks, Portico - Officers' Quarters, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.

Carlisle Barracks, Portico - Officers' Quarters, Pennsylvania, 19th ce...

Photograph shows a view of the two story portico of the Officer's Quarters at Carlisle Barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Part of series "Lochman's Stereosco... More

City Point, Virginia. Scouts at Secret Service headquarters

City Point, Virginia. Scouts at Secret Service headquarters

Caption from negative sleeve: Group of Scouts, Secret Service Hdq., City Point, Va. Secret Service Hdq. in the last months of the war. Miller, vol. 8, p. 283. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2676B) and right (LC-... More

Alexandria, Virginia. The Marshall house, King & Pitt Streets

Alexandria, Virginia. The Marshall house, King & Pitt Streets

Stereo filed in LOT 4161. Caption from negative sleeve: Marshall House, Alexandria, Va. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2295A) and right (LC-B811-2295B) halves of a stereograph pair. File print in LOT 4161-H. Cre... More

James River, Virginia. Interior view of Ft. Brady

James River, Virginia. Interior view of Ft. Brady

Caption from negative sleeve: Fort Brady and Company St. Va. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2316B) and right (LC-B811-2316A) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in LOT 4166-I. Credit line: Civil... More

Arlington, Virginia. Georgetown aqueduct from Virginia side of Potomac with Georgetown University in background

Arlington, Virginia. Georgetown aqueduct from Virginia side of Potomac...

Photographer name from negative sleeve: G. N. Barnard. Caption from negative sleeve: Georgetown Aqueduct. Two plates form left (LC-B811-289B) and right (LC-B811-289A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: ... More

Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen. Exterior view

Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen. Exterior view

Address: 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia. Caption from negative sleeve: Slave Pen, Alexandria, Va. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2300A) and right (LC-B811-2300B) halves of a stereograph pair. File print ... More

Alexandria, Virginia. 15-inch Rodman gun in Battery Rodgers

Alexandria, Virginia. 15-inch Rodman gun in Battery Rodgers

Stereo filed in LOT 4166. Caption from negative sleeve: 15 inch gun in Battery Rodgers on Potomac River near Alexandria, Va. Two plates form left (LC-B811-1140A) and right (LC-B811-1140B) halves of a stereograp... More

Port Royal Island, S.C. Coosaw Ferry; battleground of January 1, 1862, in the distance

Port Royal Island, S.C. Coosaw Ferry; battleground of January 1, 1862,...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milho... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Wiard gun at U.S. Arsenal. (L to R: General Daniel Sickles, N.P. Willis, H.L. Stuart)

Washington, District of Columbia. Wiard gun at U.S. Arsenal. (L to R: ...

Caption from negative sleeve: US Arsenal, Washington. Gen. Daniel Sickles & group. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2285B) and right (LC-B811-2285A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photographs... More

U.S. Army band standing on steps

U.S. Army band standing on steps

Title from corresponding copy print in LOT 4190-F. Two plates form left (LC-BH822-46A) and right (LC-BH822-46B) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, ... More

Antietam, Maryland. Forge scene at General McClellan's headquarters

Antietam, Maryland. Forge scene at General McClellan's headquarters

Stereo filed in LOT 4172. Caption from negative sleeve: Forge scene at Gen. McClellan's headquarters, Antietam. Sept. 22, 1862. Two plates form left (LC-B811-587B) and right (LC-B811-587A) halves of a stereogra... More

Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Encampment of the Army of the Potomac

Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Encampment of the Army of the Potomac

Caption from negative sleeve: Cumberland Landing, Va., 1862, McClellan's Camp. Two plates form left (LC-B811-1186B) and right (LC-B811-1186A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 18... More

Bull Run, Virginia. Along Bull Run near Sudley church

Bull Run, Virginia. Along Bull Run near Sudley church

Photographer name from negative sleeve: G.N. Barnard. Caption from negative sleeve: Along Bull Run near Sudley Church. March 1862. Two plates form left (LC-B811-316A) and right (LC-B811-316B) halves of a stereo... More

Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey River

Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey River

Caption from negative sleeve: Encampment of Army of Potomac at Cumberland Landing, Pamunkey River, Va. Two plates form left (LC-B811-1214A) and right (LC-B811-567A-A) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding... More

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4 with officers of 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batte...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of... More

Cedar Mountain, Virginia A Confederate field hospital

Cedar Mountain, Virginia A Confederate field hospital

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862, July-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D... More

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. English officers, Camp Winfield Scott

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. English officers, Camp Winfield Scott

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of... More

Centreville, Virginia The principal fort. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Centreville, Virginia The principal fort. Washington DC sterescope car...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of C... More

Manassas, Virginia. Yellow hospital. American Civil War glass negative.

Manassas, Virginia. Yellow hospital. American Civil War glass negative...

Photographer name from negative sleeve: T.H. O'Sullivan. Caption from negative sleeve: Yellow Hospital, Manassas, Va. July 1862. Two plates form left (LC-B811-650A) and right (LC-B811-650B) halves of a stereogr... More

Catlett's Station, Virginia The station with U.S. military railroad boxcars and soldiers

Catlett's Station, Virginia The station with U.S. military railroad bo...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862, July-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D... More

Richmond, Virginia (vicinity). General John H. Martindale & staff in the field near Richmond

Richmond, Virginia (vicinity). General John H. Martindale & staff in t...

Caption from negative sleeve: Gen. Martindale & staff in the field near Richmond, Va. Miller, vol. 1, p. 333. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2435A) and right (LC-B811-2435B) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresp... More

Beaufort, S.C. General Isaac I. Stevens (seated) and staff on porch of a house

Beaufort, S.C. General Isaac I. Stevens (seated) and staff on porch of...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milho... More

Fair Oaks, Virginia Prof. Thaddeus S. Lowe observing the battle from his balloon "Intrepid"

Fair Oaks, Virginia Prof. Thaddeus S. Lowe observing the battle from h...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Stereo filed in LOT 4172. Corresponding print is in LOT 4172-A. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D.... More

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Dead sharpshooter on the right of Confederate line

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Dead sharpshooter on the right of Confederat...

Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alex. Gardner. Caption from negative sleeve: Dead sharpshooter, on the right of the Confederate line. Two plates form left (LC-B811-244A) and right (LC-B811-244B) halves ... More

Aquia Creek, Virginia. Captain J.W. Forsyth, the Provost Marshall

Aquia Creek, Virginia. Captain J.W. Forsyth, the Provost Marshall

Caption from negative sleeve: Capt. J.W. Forsyth, Provost Marshall, Aquia Creek, Feb. 1863. Two plates form left (LC-B811-214A) and right (LC-B811-214B) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in L... More

April snow in 1863, Carlisle, Pa

April snow in 1863, Carlisle, Pa

Photograph shows people walking along Hanover Street after a snowfall in the spring of 1863. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Photographer not identified on item. Attributed to W.J. Lochman b... More

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Effect of a shell on a Confederate

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Effect of a shell on a Confederate

Stereo filed in LOT 4168. Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alex. Gardner. Caption from negative sleeve: Effect of a shell on a Confederate soldier at battle of Gettysburg. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2... More

1st Massachusetts Cavalry camp in the woods

1st Massachusetts Cavalry camp in the woods

Two identical photographs show Companies C & D of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry in camp in Petersburg, Virginia, August 1864. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). From series: The War for the Un... More

Where General McPherson was killed - stereocsopic card

Where General McPherson was killed - stereocsopic card

Stereograph showing animal bones, three cart wheels, spent shells, various clothing items, and a sign nailed on a tree in the forest where Union General James Birdseye McPherson was killed on July 22, 1864, in ... More

Cedar Level Station, Virginia. Station on City Point Railroad

Cedar Level Station, Virginia. Station on City Point Railroad

Caption from negative sleeve: Cedar Level Station on City Point R.R. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2526A) and right (LC-B811-2526B) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in LOT 4177. Credit line:... More

Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort on the Ogeechee River

Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort on the Ogeechee River

Caption from negative sleeve: Fort McAllister. Two plates form left (LC-B811-4003B) and right (LC-B811-4003A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Pr... More

North Anna River, Virginia. Grant's engineers building bridge

North Anna River, Virginia. Grant's engineers building bridge

Annotation from negative, glass side: 14. Two plates (LC-B811-692B and LC-B811-692A) are variant views of a strerograph. Corresponding print is in LOT 4176. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Librar... More

Atlanta, Georgia. Confederate fortifications. American Civil War glass negative.

Atlanta, Georgia. Confederate fortifications. American Civil War glass...

Caption from negative sleeve: Confederate Fortifications. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2723B) and right (LC-B811-2723A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of C... More

Atlanta, Ga. Railroad depot and yard; Trout House and Masonic Hall in background

Atlanta, Ga. Railroad depot and yard; Trout House and Masonic Hall in ...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

Atlanta, Georgia. Sherman's men destroying railroad

Atlanta, Georgia. Sherman's men destroying railroad

Stereo filed in LOT 4164A. Caption from negative sleeve: Federal troops destroying R.R. Atlanta, GA. Photographer's name attributed in Civil War caption books. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3631A) and right (LC... More

Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort McAllister and Cooley's photographic tent

Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort McAllister and Cooley's pho...

Caption from negative sleeve: Fortification, Fort McAllister Photographer's Darkroom. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3677B) and right (LC-B811-3677A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photogra... More

Port Royal, Virginia Transports being loaded from a pontoon bridge during the evacuation

Port Royal, Virginia Transports being loaded from a pontoon bridge dur...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. Stereo filed in LOT 4175. Across the Rappahannock River can be seen Walsingham Plantation in King George County. Civi... More

Johnsonville, Tennessee. Federal supply depot. American Civil War glass negative.

Johnsonville, Tennessee. Federal supply depot. American Civil War glas...

Caption from negative sleeve: Johnsonville, Tenn. Miller, vol. 4, p. 161. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2644A) and right (LC-B811-2644B) halves of a stereograph pair. Photographer attribution from B. Zeller's T... More

Washington, D.C. Patients in ward of Harewood Hospital; mosquito nets over beds

Washington, D.C. Patients in ward of Harewood Hospital; mosquito nets ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the hospitals. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0804 Title from Mi... More

Brandy Station, Virginia Commissary department, Army of the Potomac headquarters

Brandy Station, Virginia Commissary department, Army of the Potomac he...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington... More

Aiken's Landing, Virginia Double-turreted monitor U.S.S. Onondaga on the James

Aiken's Landing, Virginia Double-turreted monitor U.S.S. Onondaga on t...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865. Stereo filed in LOT 4175. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by H... More

Fredericksburg, Virginia Wounded from the Battle of the Wilderness

Fredericksburg, Virginia Wounded from the Battle of the Wilderness

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library ... More

Savannah, Georgia. Ruins of houses. American Civil War glass negative.

Savannah, Georgia. Ruins of houses. American Civil War glass negative.

Caption from negative sleeve: Ruins of houses, Savannah, Ga. Photographer's name attributed in Civil War caption books. Miller, vol. 3, p. 237. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3549B) and right (LC-B811-3549A) hal... More

Terrain on way from Savannah to Columbia

Terrain on way from Savannah to Columbia

Caption from negative sleeve: Terrain on way from Savannah to Columbia. Miller, vol. 3, p. 239. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3566A) and right (LC-B811-3566B) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil wa... More

Richmond, Virginia. Colonel Plauder? Ord at the residence of Jefferson Davis. In the doorway is the table on which the surrender of General Robert E. Lee was signed

Richmond, Virginia. Colonel Plauder? Ord at the residence of Jefferson...

Caption from negative sleeve: Maj. Placidus? Ord, A.A.S.U.S.V. at the mansion formerly occupied by Jefferson Davis, Richmond, Va. In the doorway is the table on which the surrender of Gen. Lee was signed. Two p... More

Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. View of Confederate Fort Darling and obstructions in James River

Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. View of Confederate Fort Darling and obstruc...

Caption from negative sleeve: View of Ft. Darling & obstructions in James River, Drewry's Bluff, Va. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3349B) and right (LC-B811-3349A) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding pr... More

Broadway Landing, Virginia Federal ordnance at the depot

Broadway Landing, Virginia Federal ordnance at the depot

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Interior of Fort Darling. (Magazines, bomb-proof and shot & shell)

Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Interior of Fort Darling. (Magazines, bomb-p...

Caption from negative sleeve: Interior of Confederate Fort Darling, James River, near Richmond, Va., showing magazines, bombproofs and shot and shell. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3352A) and right (LC-B811-335... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Interior view of Confederate works near Elliott's salient

Petersburg, Virginia. Interior view of Confederate works near Elliott'...

Stereo filed in LOT 4166E. Caption from negative sleeve: Interior of Confederate fortifications, Petersburg, Va., April 3, 1865. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3222B) and right (LC-B811-3222A) halves of a stereo... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Secession Hall

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Secession Hall

Caption from negative sleeve: Ruins of Secession hall, Charleston, S.C. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3447A) and right (LC-B811-3447B) halves of a stereograph pair; LC-B811-3447C is a copy neg. Attributed to G.... More

Petersburg, Virginia Bomb-proof shelter in Federal lines

Petersburg, Virginia Bomb-proof shelter in Federal lines

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of State Arsenal and view down James River

Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of State Arsenal and view down James River

Stereo filed in LOT 4162. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va., Ruins of State Arsenal and view down James River. Two plates form left (LC-B811-883A) and right (LC-B811-883B) halves of a stereograph pair... More

Charleston, South Carolina. The bombarded graveyard of the Circular Church

Charleston, South Carolina. The bombarded graveyard of the Circular Ch...

Stereo filed in LOT 4163. Caption from negative sleeve: Charleston, S.C. April 1865. Miller, vol. 8, p. 51. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3086B) and right (LC-B811-3086A) halves of a stereograph pair. Attribute... More

Charleston, S.C. Hibernian Hall (with columns; 105 Meeting Street), place of meeting after the burning of Secession Hall

Charleston, S.C. Hibernian Hall (with columns; 105 Meeting Street), pl...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milh... More

Richmond, Virginia. View of Tredegar Iron Works

Richmond, Virginia. View of Tredegar Iron Works

Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va., View of the Tredegar Iron Works. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3358B) and right (LC-B811-3358A) halves of a stereograph pair. File print in LOT 4162-D. Credit line: ... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army

Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army

Caption from negative sleeve: Washington, D.C. Grand Review of Army. May 1865. Two plates form left (LC-B811-1257A) and right (LC-B811-1257B) halves of a stereograph pair. Stereo filed in LOT 4198. Credit line:... More

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). View of Fort Moultrie

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). View of Fort Moultrie

Stereo filed in LOT 4166A. Caption from negative sleeve: Fort Moultrie. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3066B) and right (LC-B811-3066A) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in LOT 4166-A. Credit ... More

Libby Prison - 19th century Virginia. Stereoscope card.

Libby Prison - 19th century Virginia. Stereoscope card.

Photograph shows a man standing in front of Libby Prison, a Confederate facility in Richmond, Virginia. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digit... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Bollingbroke Street. American Civil War glass negative.

Petersburg, Virginia. Bollingbroke Street. American Civil War glass ne...

Caption from negative sleeve: Bollingbroke St., Petersburg, Va. Miller, vol. 3, p. 275. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3230B) and right (LC-B811-3230A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photog... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Vendue Range. American Civil War glass negative.

Charleston, South Carolina. Vendue Range. American Civil War glass neg...

Stereo filed in LOT 4163. Caption from negative sleeve: Vendree Range, Charleston, S.C. 1865. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3108B) and right (LC-B811-3108A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war ... More

Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg Railroad bridge

Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg Railroad bridge

Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va., 1865, Ruins of R&P R.R. Bridge. Two plates form left (LC-B811-885B) and right (LC-B811-885A) halves of a stereograph pair. File print in LOT 4162-E. Credit line: Civ... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Roman Catholic Cathedral. View of doorway

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Roman Catholic Cathedral. View of...

Caption from negative sleeve: Ruins of Roman Catholic Cathedral, Charleston, S.C. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3446A) and right (LC-B811-3446B) halves of a stereograph pair. Attributed in G.N. Barnard, based o... More

Washington, D.C. Another artillery unit passing on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Treasury

Washington, D.C. Another artillery unit passing on Pennsylvania Avenue...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the grand review of the Army, May, 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 19... More

Saint Augustine, Fla. Bastions of Fort Marion

Saint Augustine, Fla. Bastions of Fort Marion

Photographs of the Federal Navy and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Florida. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H.... More

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