Title: Sunday morning mass in camp of 69th N.Y.S.M. Date Created/Published: [photographed 1 June 1861, printed later] Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Photograph shows Father Thomas H. Mooney, Chaplain of the 69th Infantry Regiment of the New York State Militia and Irish American soldiers at a Catholic Mass at Fort Cocoran, Arlington Heights, Virginia on [...]

Title: The 71st reg. N.Y. at Alexandria Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist Date Created/Published: [1861 May 24-31] Medium: 1 drawing on brown paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 20.3 x 16.1 cm. (sheet). Summary: Soldiers resting in front of buildings. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-21025 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-5171 (color film [...]

The Battle of Aquia Creek was an exchange of cannon fire between Union Navy gunboats and Confederate shore batteries on the Potomac River at its confluence with Aquia Creek in Stafford County, Virginia. The battle took place from May 29, 1861 to June 1, 1861 during the early days of the American Civil War. The [...]

Title: Funeral service over Col. Ellsworth at the White House East Room Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist Date Created/Published: [1861 May 25] Medium: 1 drawing on brown paper : pencil, Chinese white ; 26.9 x 38.2 cm. (sheet). Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-21446 (digital file from original item, recto) LC-DIG-ppmsca-21447 (digital file from original [...]

President Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated, May 16, 1861; Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries Edited and enhanced from Library of Congress image www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009630687/

The first USS Monticello was a wooden screw-steamer in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for the home of Thomas Jefferson. She was briefly named Star in May 1861. Monticello was built at Mystic, Connecticut, in 1859; chartered by the Navy in May 1861; and purchased on 12 September 1861 [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important # 012 Stephen Russell Mallory (1812 – November 9, 1873) was a Democratic senator from Florida from 1851 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War. For much of that period, he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. [...]

This image is from a scrapbook assembled by Illustrator and Civil War correspondent James Edward Taylor (1839-1901) Scrapbook 2, page 2—Photographs by J.D. Edwards depicting Confederate soldiers drilling and at rest near Pensacola, Florida, and environs, c. 1861.Albumen prints, 14 ½ x 12 in. The scrapbook is in the James E. Taylor Collection at The [...]

Title: Sumter Light Guards, Company K, 4th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, CSA. April 1861 Date Created/Published: photographed 1861, [printed later] Medium: 1 photographic print on card mount : gelatin silver. Summary: Photograph showing four rows of Confederate soldiers with guns and one soldier holding the Confederate flag. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-35463 (digital file from original item) [...]

Civil War Portraits #011 Samuel Ryan Curtis (February 3, 1805 – December 26, 1866) was an American military officer, and one of the first Republicans elected to Congress. He was most famous for his role as a Union Army general in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War, especially for his victories at the [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #007 Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885) was an American lawyer, planter, and national politician from Georgia who became one of the organizers of the Confederacy and served as its first Secretary of State under President Jefferson Davis. He also served in the [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #006 George Lucas Hartsuff George Lucas Hartsuff (May 28, 1830 – May 16, 1874) was an American soldier, born at Tyre, New York. He graduated at West Point in 1852, graduating 19th out of 43 in his class. He served on the frontier and in Florida, where, [...]

The Massachusetts Volunteers fighting their way through the Streets of Baltimore, on their march to the defence of the National Capitol April 19th, 1861. Hurrah for the Glorious 6th. Title: The Lexington of 1861 Creator(s): Currier & Ives., Date Created/Published: New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [1861?] Medium: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. [...]

Title: Attack on the Massachusetts 6th at Baltimore, April 19, 1861 Date Created/Published: c1862. Medium: 1 print : steel engraving. Summary: Men fighting with guns, clubs, stones, etc. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-56105 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 4416 B (1861) [item] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints [...]

Left side of a stereograph www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015645343/ Title: Moultrie shot furnace Creator(s): Osborn & Durbec, photographer Date Created/Published: Charleston, S.C. : Osborn & Durbec’s Southern Stereoscopic & Photographic Depot, 223 King Street, [between 1860 and 1861] Medium: 1 photograph : print on card mount ; sheet 8 x 17 cm (stereograph format) Summary: Photograph shows a [...]

Right side of a stereograph www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015645343/ Title: Fort Moultrie Creator(s): Osborn & Durbec, photographer Date Created/Published: [Charleston, S.C.] : [Osborn & Durbec’s Southern Stereoscopic & Photographic Depot], [1861] Medium: 1 photograph : print on card mount ; sheet 8 x 17 cm (stereograph format) Summary: Photograph shows the harbor face view of Fort Moultrie taken [...]

Title: The Evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 1861 Artist: Attributed to Alma A. Pelot (American, active Charleston, South Carolina, 1850s–1860s) Artist: Attributed to Jesse H. Bolles (American, active Charleston, South Corlina, 1850s–1860s) Publisher: Edward Anthony (American, 1818–1888) Date: April 1861 Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative Dimensions: Image: 1 15/16 × 3 1/8 in. [...]

Title: [Ruins of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, S.C.] Creator(s): Osborn & Durbec, photographer Date Created/Published: [1861 April] Medium: 1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen ; 8 x 18 cm. Summary: Stereograph showing a wall of casemates, a flagpole, and other debris inside of Fort Sumter. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s02596 (digital file from original stereograph, [...]

Title: [Fort Sumter interior with a soldier standing near the artillery] Creator(s): Osborn & Durbec, photographer Date Created/Published: Charleston, S.C. : Osborn & Durbec’s Southern Stereoscopic & Photographic Depot, 223 King Street, [between 1860 and 1861] Medium: 1 photograph : print on card mount ; sheet 8.5 x 17 cm (stereograph format) Summary: Photograph shows [...]

Title: Interior Sumter the day after Gen. Anderson left, April 1861 Creator(s): Osborn & Durbec, photographer Date Created/Published: [Charleston, S.C.] : [Osborn & Durbec’s Southern Stereoscopic & Photographic Depot?] [1861] Medium: 1 photograph : print on card mount ; sheet 8 x 17 cm (stereograph format) Summary: Photograph shows a crew clearing away debris in [...]

Fort Sumter in the Charleston Harbor in Charleston, South Carolina, April 14, 1861, under the first Confederate national flag (the ‘Stars and Bars’) U.S. National Archives image.

Taking fire from Fort Moultrie on the left of the image and Cummings Point on the right. Lithograph by Currier & Ives. (1861?) Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-19520 (digital file from original item) Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/90711987/. (Accessed August 02, 2016.)

Encampment of Palmetto Guard, Sumter Guard, and Marion Artillery, the companies who fought the Comings (i.e. Cummings) Point Batteries1 Title: Encampment of Palmetto Guard, Sumter Guard, and Marion Artillery, the companies who fought the Comings (i.e. Cummings) Point Batteries Creator(s): Osborn & Durbec, photographer c. 1860-61 Summary: Photograph shows three Confederate soldiers amidst the fortifications [...]

Lincoln at Home in Springfield Ill with his youngest two sons. This photo by John Adams Whipple of Abraham Lincoln and his home was taken, probably in 1860, when he still lived in Springfield, Illinois.  A cropped portion of the image shows a clean shaven Lincoln, whose beard was full developed by the time he [...]