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Battle of Bull Run—July 21st 1861

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Title: Battle of Bull Run—July 21st 1861—Federal (Gen. McDowell) … Confederate (Gen. Beauregard) … Creator(s): Kurz & Allison., Date Created/Published: c1889, c1890. Medium: 1 print : lithograph, color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-pga-01843 (digital file from original print) LC-USZC4-1796 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-5454 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: [...]

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Stonewall Jackson at Bull Run

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Title: Stonewall Jackson, Bull Run, Aug. 17, 1861 / H.A. Ogden. Creator(s): Ogden, Henry Alexander, 1856-1936, artist Related Names: Jones Brothers & Company, publishers Jones Brothers & Company, copyright claimant Date Created/Published: c1900 March 1. Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph with paste-on ; 33.2 x 24.7 cm (sheet) Summary: Print shows General Stonewall Jackson standing [...]

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The Battle of Bull’s Run

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Title: The Battle of Bull’s Run / lith. Fr[…] A. Pfott. Creator(s): Pfott, A., lithographer Date Created/Published: 1861. Medium: 1 print : lithograph ; 35.6 x 48.9 cm (sheet) Summary: Cartoon print shows Union troops after the Battle of Bull Run during the Civil War from the point of view of a copperhead, that is, [...]

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Three companies of the First Massachusetts Regiment at Bull Run

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 Accompanying text: Attack on the batteries at Bull Run by three companies of the First Massachusetts Regiment, Lieutenant-Coloner Welles, Commanding The daring charge of these three companies of the First Massachusetts Regiment, upon one of the enemy’s batteries at Bull Run, is deserving of commemoration. This regiment was attached to Gen. Tyler’s Division, and a [...]

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Colonel Burnside’s Brigade at Bull Run

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Title: Colonel Burnsides brigade at Bull Run, First and Second Rhode Island, and Seventy-First New York Regiments, with their Artillery, Attacking the Rebel Batteries at Bull Run. Sketched on the spot by A. Waud Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist Date Created/Published: [1861 July 21] (this is the date Waud’s original drawing — [...]

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Burnside’s Brigade at Bull Run

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Col Burnside’s Brigade, First and Second Rhode Island, and Seventy-first New York Regiments, with their artillery, attacking the rebel batteries at Bull Run Among the brave Regiments of that terrible and unfortunate day at Bull Run, the united testimony of observers, military and civil, awards a very high position for determined bravery and steadiness in [...]

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Colonel Burnside’s brigade at Bull Run by Alfred R. Waud

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Title: [Colonel Burnside’s brigade at Bull Run] Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist Date Created/Published: [1861 July 21] Medium: 1 drawing on green paper : pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash ; 37.2 x 52.2 cm. (sheet). Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-22442 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-3129 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZCN4-315 (color [...]

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A Confederate Bull Battery Previous to the Battle of Bull Run

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(click on image for larger versions) Canon and limber chests drawn by bulls in foreground. Military camp consisting of several wooden plank buildings. One building has vertical bars over entranceway – probably a prison. Confederate flag flies center image. Details include several soldiers in uniform. Published [1861] Library of Congress permalink

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Surrender of the revolting Garibaldi Guards to the U.S. Cavalry

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Frederic George D’Utassy’s Garibaldi Guards “staged a minor mutiny over being issued M1842 muskets rather than the rifles they expected.” There was also friction over pay, the diverse backgrounds of the soldiers, and inept officers. (Don Troiani’s Regiments and Uniforms of the Civil War; Stackpole Books 2002) Title: Surrender of the revolting Garibaldi Guards to [...]

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Embarkation

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Aquia Creek Landing, Va. Embarkation of 9th Army Corps for Fort Monroe; photograph is by Alexander Gardner. “On February 5, 1863, Sedgwick was succeeded by Maj. Gen. William F. “Baldy” Smith, and on February 12 the corps was ordered to Newport News, where it encamped for a month.” [IX Corps (Union Army) — Wikipedia] Library [...]

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Map of the battlefield near Belmont, Missouri

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The Battle of Belmont was fought on November 7, 1861 in Mississippi County, Missouri. It was the first combat test in the American Civil War for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the future Union Army general in chief and eventual U.S. president, who was fighting Major General Leonidas Polk. Grant’s troops in this battle were [...]

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William Raleigh Clack–43rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment.

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 25 Title: [Private W.R. Clack of Co. B, 43rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment, with saber, pistol, and small book] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : half-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 15.7 x 12.7 cm (case) Summary: Photo shows identified soldier. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34982 (digital file from original [...]

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First Sergeant

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 24 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Union first sergeant’s uniform with militia sword and revolver] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.2 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34964 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Access [...]

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Private Charles H. Bickford of B Company, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as a young boy

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 23 Title: [Private Charles H. Bickford of B Company, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as a young boy] Date Created/Published: [between 1850 and 1855] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.1 cm (case) + 1 manuscript. Summary: Photograph shows identified soldier, as a child. Reproduction Number: [...]

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Roswell K. Bishop of Company I, 123rd New York Infantry Regiment in uniform with holstered revolver

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 22 Title: [Roswell K. Bishop of Company I, 123rd New York Infantry Regiment in uniform with holstered revolver] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1863] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.5 cm (case) Summary: Photograph shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-27241 (digital [...]

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Texas Cavalry Private

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 21 Title: [Private Simeon J. Crews of Co. F, 7th Texas Cavalry Regiment, with cut down saber and revolver] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : quarter-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 12.4 x 10.1 cm (case) Summary: Photo shows identified soldier. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34975 (digital file from [...]

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Unidentified artillery soldier in Confederate uniform and kepi hat.

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 20 Title: [Unidentified artillery soldier in Confederate uniform and kepi hat] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.2 x 8.0 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32058 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Access Advisory: Use digital [...]

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3rd New Jersey Cavalry Volunteer

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 19 Title: [Unidentified soldier in 3rd New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers (The Butterflies) jacket with corporal’s chevrons] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 12.5 x 11.3 cm (frame) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-37521 (digital file from original, tonality adjusted) LC-DIG-ppmsca-27521 (digital file from original [...]

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Unidentified soldier in Confederate frock coat with gold trim.

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 18 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Confederate frock coat with gold trim] Creator(s): Rees, Charles R., photographer Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.4 x 8.3 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-40604 (digital file from original item, tonality adjusted) LC-DIG-ppmsca-30604 (digital file from [...]

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Thomas Isaiah Booker

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 17 Title: [Thomas Isaiah Booker in Confederate uniform with Colt navy revolver, book, tin drum canteen, and sign reading Jeff Davis and the South!] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1863] Medium: 1 photograph : ninth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 7.4 x 6.3 cm (case) Summary: Photo shows identified soldier from [...]

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Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with Berdan’s Sharps rifle and Colt 1862 Police Model pistol

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 16 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with Berdan’s Sharps rifle and Colt 1862 Police Model pistol] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.0 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-33426 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions [...]

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Unidentified soldier in Union uniform standing with Napoleon cannon in front of encampment

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 15 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Union uniform standing with Napoleon cannon in front of encampment] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.1 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32130 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. [...]

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Lieutenant Hiram L. Hendley of Co. A, 9th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, in silver brooch.

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 14 Title: [Lieutenant Hiram L. Hendley of Co. A, 9th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, in silver brooch] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : ambrotype, hand-colored ; 5.0 x 3.7 cm (brooch) Summary: Portrait photograph of identified soldier set in brooch. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-33335 (digital file from [...]

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