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W.D. Pender, C.S.A., killed at Gettysburg

Photograph shows a half-length portrait of William Dorsey Pender. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Volunteering down Dixie, Confederate States of America.

A satire on Southern recruitment efforts during the early part of the Civil War. In a scene before a Confederate encampment, a reluctant civilian (center) is presented with a musket and military coat by two vet... More

The steamship Marion, on her way to New York with the wives and childr...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Feb. 23, p. 212.

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate artilleryman uniform and greatcoa...

Case: Berg, no. 3-154. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: Paul Reeder, Germantown, Tenness... More

[Unidentified officer in Confederate uniform with wife and baby]

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

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and unidentified man, pos...

Case: leather; geometric design; vintage case provided by donor. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Forms ... More

[Unidentified cavalry soldier in Confederate uniform and Valley Ranger...

Case: Imitation Eichmeyer. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: Bill Turner, La Plata, Maryl... More

Impressive scene at Fort Sumter - Dec. 27, 1860

When the stars and Stripes were raised - the Chaplain invoking a blessing while Major Anderson was hoisting the standard. Reference copy may be available in lot 4416 E (1861) Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrat... More

Cannon, 19th century - Early photography, Public domain image

Andrew Joseph Russell (American, 1830–1902) 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 ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and Virginia sword belt p...

Case: Leather, scroll design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collect... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform], American Civil War.

Case: Berg, no. 3-488. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: Nick Harris, 2012. Forms part of... More

[Unidentified private in Confederate uniform with Bowie knife]

Case: Leather (half); floral design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: Paul Brzozowski, F... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate infantry uniform with musket and ...

Revolver is possibly a Griswald & Gunnison percussion revolver. Case: Leather; floral design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.l... More

Lt. General Jas. Longstreet, American Civil War.

Photograph shows Lieutenant General James Longstreet in uniform. Handwritten name on recto bottom. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available at http://h... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with Gardner patent cante...

Photograph shows soldier in dilapidated condition. Case: Rinhart, no. 141. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.l... More

[William Jenkins, North Carolina soldier, in artillery uniform, with p...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Title devised by Library staff and Flickr Commons project, 2013. Case: leather, floral design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this co... More

[Confederate soldier identified as Jonathan Sweet of Meridian, Mississ...

Photograph shows partially identified soldier. Case: Leather; geometric. Searches of American Civil War Research Database and Ancestry.com on Jan. 12, 2015 were unable to find a Jonathan Sweet of Mississippi. ... More

[Ironclad USS Essex at Baton Rouge, Louisiana]

Probably photographed by McPherson & Oliver. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: The Histor... More

The great American What is it? chased by Copper-heads

An anti-Lincoln satire, showing the Republican incumbent and his supporters menaced by giant "Copperheads" (Peace Democrats). After a speech on May 1, 1863, asserting that the Civil War was being fought to fre... More

Interior of Fort Sumter after bombardment from Morris Island

Federal bombardment of Confederate fortifications, Aug. - Sept. 1863. Illustration from: Harper's Weekly, (1864 Jan. 9), p. 28. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: C.W... More

George Hunt - Democracy. 1832. 1864., Confederate States of America.

Two scenes contrast Democratic presidential candidate of 1832 Andrew Jackson and 1864 George B. McClellan. McClellan is portrayed as weak and conciliatory toward the South, whereas his earlier counterpart's st... More

The sportsman upset by the recoil of his own gun (Jo. Miller)

Lincoln is portrayed as meek and ineffectual in his prosecution of the war. In a wooded scene Lincoln, here in the character of an Irish sportsman in knee-breeches, discharges his blunderbuss at a small bird "C... More

Charleston, S.C. Guns of Fort Johnson; Fort Sumter in distance

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

Charleston, S.C. Meeting Street, near Broad; St. Michael's Church in m...

Corner of Main & East King Street, Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pennsyl...

Stereograph showing buildings burned by the Confederate calvary troops of General John McCausland.

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

"Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Ci... More

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

Storming Fort Wagner, Confederate States of America.

Print shows Union soldiers storming the walls of Fort Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina, and engaging some Confederate soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.

The second battle of Bull Run, fought Augt. 29th 1862.

Army of Virginia and Confederate forces under Lee engaged in battle, Union flags flying. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5848 Published... More

[James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor seen from the...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

[Charleston, S.C. Meeting Street, near Broad; St. Michael's Church in ...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Young Marshall Moody, 1822-1866, Confederate States of America.

Half lgth., facing slightly left. CSA general. Civil War Collection. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.

[Portrait of Pvt. John J. Rhodes, Company K, 5th Virginia Regiment, C....

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Beauregard's march, Confederate States of America.

Music cover illustrated with two Confederate flags. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lieutenant Robert Pryor James of Co. E, 20th North Carolina Infantry ...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Case: Berg, no. 1-73. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased fro... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and Craig's Rifles, or 28...

Case: Leather; geometric design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: Paul Reeder, Civil War ... More

Views of Fort Sumter from drawings

Photograph of drawing shows Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor with a boat sailing by. The Confederate flag waves above the fort. No. B701. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Fort Sumter,... More

[A Union Station on the James River Established for Extracting Gunpowd...

Attributed to Egbert Guy Fowx (American, born 1821) 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

Ruins of Montgomery Blair's house at Silver Spring burnt by the Confed...

Photo shows the mansion called Falkland, built in the 1850s as a summer residence and burned by either Confederate troops or camp followers on July 12, 1864. (Source: Silver Spring Patch blog post, July 15, 201... More

Stephens, Honorable Alexander H. of GA

A black and white photo of two men in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

G.A.R. & C.S.A. ? Veterans, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1913

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

General Robert E. Lee, Confederate States of America.

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2456(A)

Charleston, S.C. The Citadel seen across Marion Square

Photograph 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. Milho... More

Norfolk, Virginia Steamer U.S.S. Fort Donelson (former Confederate blo...

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

Portrait of General Robert E. Lee, officer of the Confederate Army

Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 1035 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Date from: Brooks Johnson, "Mr... More

Charleston, S.C. Houses on the Battery; the nearest is burned out

29th Alabama Infantry flag

29th Alabama Infantry flag, Alabama Department of Archives and History

[Petersburg, Virginia Confederate fortifications with chevaux-de-frise...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Confederate dead gathered for burial at the ...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863.

[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Confederate dead gathered for burial at the ...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863.

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

North-West corner public square, Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pennsylva...

Stereograph showing the ruins of a stone building after being burned by Confederate cavalry troops lead by General John McCausland.

Yorktown, Virginia. Cornwallis cave. Used as a powder magazine by the ...

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

Reconstruction / eng. by J.L. Giles, N.Y. ; printed by F[rancis] Rate...

Print shows a grand allegory of the reconciliation of North and South through the federal program of Reconstruction. Visionary in its breadth and scale, the work is a remarkable combination of religious and pat... More

Simon Cameron to Robert S. Chew, Saturday, April 06, 1861 (Orders to ...

Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The outbreak of the rebellion in the United States 1861

A grand allegory of the Civil War in America, harshly critical of the Buchanan administration, Jefferson Davis, and the Confederacy. In the center stands Liberty, wearing a Phrygian cap and a laurel wreath. She... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Dead Confederate soldiers in trenches of Fort Ma...

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

[Charleston, S.C. Site of the night attack on Fort Sumter, September 8...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1862-1863.

[Portrait of Pvt. Andrew F. Skidmore, Mount Vernon Guards, Company E, ...

Pvt. Skidmore was killed at Yorktown, Va. around May 1, 1862.

Fayetteville from "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, being for the...

This image has been taken from scan 000472 from volume 03 of "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon “the Century War Series.” ... More

Brig.-General A.L. Long, Virginia, American Civil War.

Photograph shows Confederate General A.L. Long, in uniform, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. No. 210. Reference print in BIOG FILE.

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with flintlock musket]

Case: Rinhart, no. 93. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: Paul Reeder, Germantown, Tenness... More

[Civil War envelope showing angel holding American flag watching over ...

Addressed to Mr. William Field, Richwood, Union Co., Ohio; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljmem

[Private William Baxter Ott of Co. I, 4th Virginia Infantry Regiment, ...

Photograph shows identified soldier killed at the 1st Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. Case: Leather; geometric. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is avail... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate cavalry uniform and snake belt bu...

Case: Berg, no. 3-175 Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: Regimental Headquarters, Falmouth... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with cavalry sword and re...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

View taken in 1861, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows group of men at the entrance of Fort Sumter. No. 4394. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. 9, p. 41. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C. Pho... More

Confederate camp, Warrington Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, 1861

Photograph shows Company B of the 9th Mississippi in a bivouac camp. The cook is identified as Kinlock Falconer. (Information from the Image of War, 1981).

Fort Putnam, previously Confederate Battery Gregg, Morris Island, S.C.

Photograph shows a parapet inside the fort with a sign, Fort Putnam", and artillery. No. 4110. Similar view in LC-B811-3479. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[Private Albert B. Martin of Co. 3, Washington Louisiana Light Artille...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Case: Leather; floral design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purc... More

[Private W.R. Clack of Co. B, 43rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment, with s...

Photo shows identified soldier. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Nine views of the Gettysburg battlefield from photographs by Mathew B...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 Aug. 22, pp. 532-533. Public domain photograph related to Confederate States of America, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl... More

The siege of Vicksburg - Major General U.S. Grant, commanding / JG ; s...

Print shows soldiers in the foreground hiding behind trees and bushes during a bombardment of the encampment and earthworks of the Union army outside Vicksburg, Mississippi, with Confederate forts and earthwork... More

[A Union Station on the James River Established for Extracting Gunpowd...

[Portrait of Maj. General Joseph Wheeler, officer of the Confederate A...

Photograph of Gen. Joe Wheeler, CSA of 19th Alabama Infantry. Public domain photograph related to Confederate States of America, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image -... More

A soldier's recollections; leaves from the diary of a young Confederat...

Identifier: soldiersrecollec02mcki (find matches) Title: A soldier's recollections; leaves from the diary of a young Confederate, with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South Year: 191... More

[Portrait of Secretary of State Robert M. T. Hunter, officer of the Co...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Confederate States of America : 22 February 1862 - deo vindice / A...

Print shows the Great Seal of the Confederate States of America with George Washington at the center of a seal, in a full-length portrait, wearing military uniform, sitting on a horse, facing left, with a borde... More

Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Exterior of Confederate Fort Darling. (Maske...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Escape of the Army of Virginia, commanded by General Lee, over the Pot...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.294) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Make way for liberty!, Confederate States of America.

Card showing Afro-American Union soldier bayonetting Confederate soldier. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Atlanta, Ga. General William T. Sherman, leaning on breach of gun, an...

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 a... More

Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, P...

Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a somewhat optimistic picture of the future of free blacks in the United States. The central scene ... More

Yorktown, Virginia. Cornwallis cave. Used as a powder magazine by the ...

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

Triumph, Confederate States of America., Confederate States of America

A large, elaborate allegory predicting the triumph of the Union over the dark forces of the Confederacy and "King Cotton." A published key accompanying the print describes the secession of the South in heavily ... More

Dead Confederate soldier, Confederate States of America.

No. 725. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c... More

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor: 12th & 13th of April, 1...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0664 Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2002-2003. Exhibited: "With Malice Towar... More

[Charleston, S.C. Confederate torpedoes, shot, and shell in the Arsena...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

[Sailor with cigar in hand holding a double case image of confederate ...

Photograph shows a three-quarter-length portrait of an African American sailor sitting, facing front, holding cased photographs toward the camera.

[James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor]

Photo shows the light damage caused to the turret of the ironclad USS Monitor during her fight with the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia, March 9, 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads-the first battle of two ir... More

The first battle between "iron" ships of war

Print shows the Monitor and the Merrimack firing at each other during battle, with other battleships in the background, one sinking on the left. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862 by Henry B... More

[Two unidentified soldiers of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, later...

Case: Berg, no. 1-39. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: Anne Arundel House, Linthicum Heig... More

Portrait of Lt. Colonel James T. Weaver, 60th North Carolina Regiment,...

Lt. Col. Weaver was killed at Murfreesboro, Dec. 7, 1864. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Copy photo made by LC in 1961 of ambrotype. Credit: Mrs. Verne Rhoades, As... More

S.B. Buckner CSA, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner.

Lieut. Washington, a Confederate prisoner, and Capt. Custer, U.S.A.

George Armstrong Custer, seated with Lieut. Washington and his slave. No. 428.

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and hat with initials C.R...

Case: Papier mache with mother of pearl; floral design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: ... More

[Private Archibald Magill Smith of Co. F, 1st Virginia Cavalry Regimen...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Case: Leather; geometric design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Pu... More

[Unidentified officer in the Confederate Medical Corps]

Frame: Berg, no. 7-18. Formerly identified as Julian John Chisolm, surgeon in Medical Staff Confederate States Infantry Regiment, based on information received when purchased. Subsequent information from the f... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with knife and revolver]

Case: Leather; curved octagon and scroll design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Forms part of: Liljenq... More

[Captain George W. Hackworth of Co. F, 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment, ...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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