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Unidentified Officer

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 13 Title: [Unidentified Confederate(?) officer, full-length portrait, standing, with sword in right hand] Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1870] Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-119426 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 6592, no. [...]

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Unidentified Boy in Union Zouave Uniform with Drum

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 12 Title: [Unidentified boy in Union zouave uniform with drum] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : half-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 15.6 x 12.5 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34499 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Access Advisory: Use digital images. [...]

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Richmond Grays, 1859, in Charles Town, Virginia for the Execution of John Brown

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Title: [Soldiers from Richmond Grays at execution of abolitionist John Brown in Charles Town, West Virginia] Other Title: Young Confederates off to war. Young Southerners at Richmond making light of war. Creator(s): Dinkle, Lewis Graham, 1829-1906, photographer Date Created/Published: [New York] : [The Review of Reviews Co.], [photographed 1859, printed 1911] Medium: 1 photograph : [...]

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Red Legged Devil

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Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 11 Almost 10 years ago, this tintype was the subject of a couple of involved NPR articles/podcasts on the image and identifying who the soldier in the Union Zuave uniform was. In the first, Unknown No More: Identifying A Civil War Soldier1, he is identified as Thomas A. Ardies [...]

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Major William Schnackenburg

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Title: [Major William Schnackenburg] Creator(s): Metzner, Adolph, artist Date Created/Published: [1861] Medium: 1 drawing on front of sheet: graphite ; sheet 24 x 15 cm. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-51175 (digital file from front of original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: DRWG/US – Metzner, no. 4 (front) (A size) [P&P] Repository: Library [...]

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5th Excellsiors

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74th Infantry Regiment . Civil War . Fifth Excelsior Regiment; Fifth Regiment, Sickles’ Brigade. This regiment was recruited under the special authority of the War Department, issued to Gen. D. E. Sickles; organized under Col. Charles K. Graham at Camp Scott, L. I., and mustered in the service of the United States for three years [...]

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CSS Sumter running the blockade

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The Sumter running the blockade of Pass à l’Outre, by the enemy’s Ship Brooklyn, on the 30th June, 1861 (Library of Congress) 1869 Color lithograph by Kelly, Piet & Co., Baltimore CSS Sumter, a 473-ton bark-rigged screw steam cruiser, was built as the merchant steamship Habana at Philadelphia in 1859 for McConnell’s New Orleans & [...]

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Flag raising at the White House

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Title: Flag raising at the White House Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist Date Created/Published: [1861 June 29] Medium: 1 drawing on olive paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 19.3 x 27.7 cm. (sheet). Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-21165 (digital file from original item, recto) LC-DIG-ppmsca-21166 (digital file from original item, verso) LC-USZC4-5101 (color [...]

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Jersey troops breaking the ground for a fort to defend Washington, on Virginia soil near the long bridge.

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Title: Jersey troops breaking the ground for a fort to defend Washington, on Virginia soil near the long bridge Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist Date Created/Published: [1861] Medium: 1 drawing on brown paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 13.8 x 19.1 cm. (sheet) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-20802 (digital file from original item, [...]

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Second Connecticut Regiment at Washington

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Title: Camp of the second Connecticut regiment at Washington, in a grove on the north side of the city- Near th[e] New York 7th Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist Date Created/Published: [1861 May ca. 20-23] Medium: 1 drawing on grey-olive paper : pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash ; sheet 19.0 [...]

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Schenks Ohio Regiments near Vienna, Virginia

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Title: Schenks Ohio regiments Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist Date Created/Published: 1861 June 17. Medium: 1 drawing on olive paper : pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash ; 10.1 x 37.7 cm. (sheet) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-21444 (digital file from original item, recto) LC-DIG-ppmsca-21445 (digital file from original item, verso) LC-USC4-5100 (color [...]

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Camp life, Army of the Potomac Taking it Easy.

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Title: Camp life, Army of the Potomac Taking it easy. Creator(s): Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, photographer Related Names: E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) , publisher Date Created/Published: New-York : E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., American and foreign stereoscopic emporium, 501 Broadway, [15 June 1861] Medium: 1 photograph : albumen print ; mount 9 [...]

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First summer of the rebellion, Franklin Square, ‘The N.Y. 12th’

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Title: First summer of the rebellion, Franklin Square, ‘The N.Y. 12th’ Date Created/Published: 1861 June 11. Medium: 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 24 x 34 cm. Summary: Photograph showing Civil War Union soldiers and Zouaves in formation at Franklin Square, Washington, D.C.; small rough buildings, probably barracks, in background. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-19885 (digital [...]

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Big Bethel—Soldiers, caissons, and covered wagons moving through town.

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Title: Big Bethel Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist Date Created/Published: [1861 June 10] Medium: 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil ; 9.1 x 12.5 cm. (sheet) Summary: Soldiers, caissons, and covered wagons moving through town. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-20192 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-5177 (color film copy transparency) Rights Advisory: No [...]

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Camp, Las Moras C.S.A. : near Fort Clark, Texas, March 1861

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Title: Camp, Las Moras C.S.A. : near Fort Clark, Texas, March 1861 Creator(s): Iwonski, Carl G. von, 1830-1922, artist Date Created/Published: 1861 March. Medium: 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil and brown ink wash ; 24.8 x 35.2 cm. (sheet). Summary: Detailed study of Confederate troops and Mexicans opening supply boxes taken from a [...]

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Officers and non-commissioned officers of Co. A, 8th New York State Militia, Arlington, Va., June, 1861

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Title: Officers and non-commissioned officers of Co. A, 8th New York State Militia, Arlington, Va., June, 1861 Date Created/Published: photographed 1861, [printed between 1880 and 1889] Medium: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34175 (digital file from original item) LC-B8184-4112 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. [...]

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Officers of 8th New York State Militia, Arlington, Va., June, 1861

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Title: Officers of 8th New York State Militia, Arlington, Va., June, 1861 Date Created/Published: photographed 1861, [printed between 1880 and 1889] Medium: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34171 (digital file from original item) LC-B8184-4104 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 4187, no. [...]

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Drum Corps, 8th New York State Militia, Arlington, Va., June, 1861

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Title: Drum Corps, 8th New York State Militia, Arlington, Va., June, 1861 Date Created/Published: photographed 1861, [printed between 1880 and 1889] Medium: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. Summary: Group portrait of 18 men and boys, many seated on drums. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34572 (digital file from original item) LC-DIG-ppmsc-02793 (digital file from original [...]

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Engineer Company, 8th New York State Militia, Arlington, Va., June, 1861

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Title: Engineer Company, 8th New York State Militia, Arlington, Va., June, 1861 Date Created/Published: photographed 1861, [printed between 1880 and 1889] Medium: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34581 (digital file from original item) LC-B8184-B531 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 4190-E, no. [...]

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Roach’s Springs, Va. Encampment of the Connecticut Volunteers First Regiment

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Title: Roach’s Springs, Va. Encampment of the Connecticut Volunteers First Regiment Creator(s): Chapin, John R., 1823-1907, artist Date Created/Published: [1861 ca. June 2] Medium: 1 drawing on cream paper : pencil ; 13.7 x 28 cm. (sheet). Summary: Soldiers relaxing around a tent, with two on picket duty. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-20469 (digital file from original [...]

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Group of 8th New York State Militia

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Title: [Group of 8th New York State Militia in front of tent, Arlington, Virginia, June 1861] Date Created/Published: [1861 June] Medium: 1 photographic print. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-48411 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 4192 [item] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 [...]

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