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Avila. Vista general de Avila / J. Laurent. Madrid.

View of Avila showing wall around old part of city. In album: Spain, opposite p.4. No. 72.

[Officers on horseback watching infantry drills in distance]

Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.379) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Three soldiers in a rifle pit]

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Chimney, guns stacked against and fort commanding R.R., Manassas

Small sketch shows chimney in foreground with flag atop fort in the background. Title inscribed on right. "Turn over" bottom left. Source unknown; possibly Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.) Forms part... More

Key West, Fla. Jan 14 60, garrisoned by U.S. troops. Fort Taylor

Includes sketch of interior of tent. Title inscribed above and below image. Sketch of tent inscribed with color indicators. Formerly Waud no. B-68. Possibly by William Waud. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919... More

4 mile run valley - Public domain document scan of drawing

Title inscribed above image. Formerly Waud no. C-79. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1006) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

View of Charleston Harbor and its Defences

Landscape with harbor and wetlands; Charleston on horizon upper left and ironclads and ships in harbor upper right. Damaged dwelling right margin. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image to indicacte... More

Howlett house battery - Public domain decorative drawing

Landscape with river and wrecked boat in foreground, fort in background. Title inscribed above image. Inscribed below image: wreck. Formerly Waud no. B-92. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.856) Forms p... More

Ft. Brady - Public domain scan / drawing

Landscapes with two shores of river. Title inscribed within image. Formerly Waud no. B-92. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.856) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Ft. Scott [and] Towards Alexandria

Two scenes. Title inscribed below images. Formerly Waud no. B-96. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.860) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Ft. Runyon - Public domain document scan of drawing

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed above image with arrow indicator: Road to Mt. Vernon. Formerly Waud no. C-98. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1025) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Soldiers preparing for battle]

May be the battle of Charles City Road. Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-46. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.811) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Ft. Monroe [Gunnery?] - Public domain scan / drawing

Title from inscription below image. Last word of the title is illegible, the conjecture is based on image content. Inscribed vertically upper left margin: No I 6. Faint sketch of man's head above image. Sketch ... More

Bull Pen - Hd. qtrs A of P. - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.314) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Rebel works on the heights of Centerville [sic]

Signed lower right: Alf. R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-2. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.767) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Castle Pinkney [sic] - Public domain drawing

Gun placements inside fort. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-123. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.887) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

In the Rebel intrenchments [sic], Confederate States of America

Possibly Petersburg. Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-29. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.794) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[River landscape with boats] - Public domain scan / drawing

Signed lower left of image: [Frienkz Thienkz Delt?] Title devised. Inscribed above image: [Dedi]cated to Artemas Ward [...]/ Head & Principal Showman [...]/ By his devotedly attached servant / Zebedeezer(?) Zer... More

Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states,...

Print shows Confederate soldiers firing cannons from an artillery battery, bombarding Fort Sumter in the distance.

[Union soldiers stand around a mounted cannon at a fort]

Title devised by library staff. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mi... More

Bombardment of Ft. Sumter - A group of men standing on top of a pile o...

Photograph shows Battery Stevens, commanded by First Lieutenant James Wilson from Battery C, 1st U.S. Artillery, after the fall of Battery Wagner. Photographer and date from another copy in the Hagley Library,... More

[Forts, batteries, and a photographic studio in Virginia]

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 Nov. 23, p. 742. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Clinch, Fernandina, Fla., American Civil War Glass Negative.

Print shows soldiers on the dirt road leading up to Fort Clinch which was occupied by Federal troops in early 1862. No. 5816. Mounted with one print and two other photographs. Print is half of a stereograph pa... More

[Mounted guns and ammunition around the perimeter of a fort, and tents...

No. B621. Title devised by library staff. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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

Ft. Carroll, Wash., D.C. - A black and white photo of an old farm

Photograph showing guns and ammunition inside of Fort Carrol, near Giesboro, Washington, D.C.

Scenes at and around Fort Pickens / sketches by officers of the garris...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 Dec. 14, p. 793. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Bomb proof quarters at Ft. Burnham. The sides and top are 7 feet thick...

Stereograph showing three Union soldiers in front of bombproof quarters at Fort Burnham, near James River, Virginia.

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

Photograph shows mounted guns inside the fort. No. B42. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Fort Brady [i.e. Fort Carroll] (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows mounted guns and ammunition around the perimeter of a fort, possibly interior of Fort Carrol in Giesboro, Washington, D.C. instead of Fort Brady. No. 587. Corrected title from published source... More

Fort Taylor, Key West, Fla., American Civil War Glass Negative.

Print shows Fort ZacharyTaylor on the coast of Key West, Florida. No. 5817. Mounted with one print and two other photographs. Print is half of a stereograph pair. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Sumter - Public domain scan / drawing

Damaged fort wall. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed lower right: Pan(?) Coupe?. Formerly Waud no. B-114. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.878) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Battery Beauregard, Bay Point Port Royal, S.C., captured 1861

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.635) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Fort Sumter and Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina]

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Jan. 26, pp. 152-153.

Fort Carroll, Wash., D.C. (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing guns and ammunition in Fort Carrol, near Giesboro, Washington, D.C.

Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 April 27, pp. 264-265. Public domain photograph related to Confederate States of America, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picry... More

View at Fort Prentiss (The old distillary at the Point)

Photograph shows a Union battery at Fort Prentiss (renamed Fort Defiance), with guns facing the Ohio River, Cairo, Illinois. Title from pencil inscription on item. Photograph possibly taken by Munn & Faul. Purc... More

Evacuation of Fort Moultrie, and burning of the gun carriages, on Sull...

Picryl description: Public domain historical book on American Civil War, Confederate States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Blockhouse, O and A.R.R., nr. Bull Run

Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-87. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.851) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Interior view of Fort Brady, James River, Virginia, near Dutch Gap Can...

Union soldiers by two large cannons positioned behind fortifications. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. B689.

Fort Sumter, showing the effects of the bombardment by the artillery o...

Copy photograph shows a photo of the damaged walls of Fort Sumter viewed by men on a nearby sandbar. The photo is mounted above a printed caption with Engineer Department noted on the left. Mounted with two ot... More

The great 10,000 mile wall China

No. 15348. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Virginia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Confederate fortifications, Atlanta, Ga., Confederate States of Americ...

Soldiers inside Confederate fortification, Atlanta, Ga. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

The prayer at Sumter, December 27, 1860

Major Robert Anderson and soldiers praying around flag in Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 213 (1861 Jan. 26), p. 49.

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.

[Fortifications on a vast area of land]

Title devised by library staff. No. 199. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Sumter, 61 - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-112. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.876) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Two sketches: fort opposite Alexandria, 1861; opposite Ft. Scott on P...

Title devised from inscription above and below image. Formerly Waud no. C-12. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.939) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Views of Fort Sumter from drawings

Photograph of drawing showing the ruins of Fort Sumter with Confederate flag waving from Charleston Harbor.

Fort Johnson and Battery Gregg - Public domain scan / drawing

Photograph of drawing shows soldiers rowing a boat in front of Fort Johnson and Battery Simpkins with Charleston in the background. No. B680. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Charlesto... 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

South-Western angle and face of Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor, S.C....

Soldiers with cannons. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Views of Fort Sumter from drawings

Photograph of drawing showing ruins of Fort Sumter from Charleston Harbor with a Confederate flag waving on the left. No. B698. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Fort Sumter, Charleston... More

[Three soldiers posing by a mounted cannon with a wall of sandbags beh...

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support wi... More

Earthwork fort at Alexandria protecting the left of the line of the gr...

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed within image as indicators: Fill in with soldiers of the Pennsylvania 4th drilling; narrow Road; Field rough; Trees cut down; distant country. Inscribed vertically left ma... More

Quartermaster's store [rooms?], the point ...

Photograph shows the levee at Fort Prentiss, Cairo, Illinois. View includes the Ohio River in the background, military facilities, and railroad tracks. Title from inscriptions on item. Additional inscriptions i... More

Belle Island [sic], Confederate States of America

Prison camp with tents and guards. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed lower right: the river. Formerly Waud no. B-150. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.914) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil... More

Fort Pillow ?, Tenn., gelatin silver print

Photograph shows mounted guns and fortifications along the perimeter of a fort.

[Union soldiers and three mounted cannons inside a fort]

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

View from the breastworks of Fort Sedgwick, called by the rebel soldie...

Stereograph showing long wooden spikes, chevaux-de-frise, extending from the fortifications of Fort Sedgwick, Petersburg, Virginia.

Confederate flag flying. Ft. Sumter after the evacuation of Maj. Ande...

Photograph shows the Confederate flag flying at Fort Sumter, on April 15, 1861, following the surrender of Major Anderson and his Union troops, documenting the beginning of the Civil War; troops prepare to load... More

Exterior view of the gorge of Fort Sumter on the 14th, April 1861 afte...

Copy photograph showing a group of men in front of the damaged walls of Fort Sumter near the gorge. Mounted with two other photographs. Photograph is possibly half of a stereograph pair. Letter "A" is noted in... More

Brady's incidents of the war. (Fort Richardson Virginia) Camp 1st. Con...

Photograph shows Union soldiers with cannons in an artillery bunker at Fort Richardson, Arlington, Virginia. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by M.B. Brady, in the Clerks Office of the Dis... More

Exterior view of the gorge of Fort Sumter on the 14th April 1861 after...

Copy photograph shows a photo of a group of men in front of the damaged walls of Fort Sumter near the gorge. Mounted with two other photographs. Photograph is possibly half of a stereograph pair. Letter "B" is... More

Ft. Brady, Interior (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing mounted guns and ammunition around the perimeter of a fort, possibly interior of Fort Carrol in Giesboro, Washington, D.C. instead of Fort Brady. Title from published source: Interior of Fo... More

[Fort Sedgwick near Petersburg], Confederate States of America. (Andre...

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

Fort Johnson, Charleston Harbor, S.C. Fort Sumter in the distance

Photograph shows mounted guns with view of Fort Sumter in the background. No. B1194. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Interior of Fort Marion, Saint Augustine, Florida

Photograph shows soldiers with artillery in the yard of the fort. No. 4961. Mounted with two prints and one other photograph. Photograph is half of a stereograph pair. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

300 pdr. [i.e. pounder] Parrot Rifle, Fort Chatfield, Morris Isand

Photograph shows a group of soldiers by the 300 pound Parrot rifled cannon with the name "Col. Brayton" inscribed on it in battery Chatfield on Morris Island. No. 4308. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. V, ... More

Civil War envelope showing slave master holding whip as slave attempts...

Addressed to John Heagy Esq., Highspire P.O., Dauphin Co., Penna. ; postmarked Hummelstown, Pa., September 25 ; bears 3 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) pp/liljmem

Fortifications on heights of Centreville, Virginia / negative by Barna...

Illustration showing a group of soldiers at an earthwork fortification. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 5. ... More

The campaign in Tennessee -- Interior of Fort Henry, on the morning af...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 13, no. 327 (1862 March1), p. 236.

Sunken vessels, in the Rappahannock River, below Fredericksburg, with ...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.14) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Manassas Junction, looking towards Bull Run and Centreville, [...] / f...

Title caption continues: taken from the parapet of the fortifications to the south-west of the railway depot, showing the various fortifications and headquarters of the Rebel generals, etc. Illus. in: Frank Les... More

Harrisons landing-line - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.592) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Damaged brick fortifications of Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Georgia...

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Medhurst & Co., North Liberty, IA, February 2018. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljpaper

Interior of Redoubt No 3--Fair Oaks

Three sketches depicting plan, interior, and distant view of military redoubt. Title inscribed above image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Position of ft. Henry on Tennessee River

Steamboat on river heading toward fort. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-27. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.792 recto) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The war in South Carolina - view of the fortifications erected at Hilt...

Illustrations show (top) laborers constructing a Union fort and (bottom) African Americans, mostly women, performing tasks such as doing laundry in a camp for escaped slaves at Hilton Head Island, South Carolin... More

Capture of Fort Henry by U.S. gun boats under the command of Flag Offi...

Print shows four Union ironclads in the foreground, identified as the "St. Louis", "Carondelet", "Cincinnati", and the "Essex", bombarding Confederate Fort Henry in the background; also shows two Confederate st... More

Ft. Henry. Tennessee River, Library of Congress drawings collection

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Confederate fortifications at Manassas, Virginia, Confederate States o...

Negative by Barnard & Gibson. Civil War Collection. No. 4175. Published in: Photographic sketch book of the war, vol. I, pl. 11. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photogra... More

Gloucester from the river, Confederate States of America

Picryl description: Public domain historical book on American Civil War, Confederate States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Picket posts on Orange & Alexandria R.R. 1862

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Nr Cattletts. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.560) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Yorktown from the river - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Sully Point; Cotton bales on dock; Distant works. Inscribed within image: Beach; Water Battery. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.693) Forms part of: ... More

Secesh Gun, Fort Welles [i.e., Wells], Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph shows a cannon at Fort Wells, two Union soldiers appear to the left and right of the gun. Title is inscribed in ink on the bottom of the mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; Wi... More

View of cavalliere [i.e., cavalier] taken from Central Gap, Port Hudso...

Photograph shows fortification constructed of stacked barrels. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Works thrown up near Rappahannock R.R. Bridge

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed below image: Bridge on fire. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 7, 1863, p. 716 as: Works thrown up near the Railroad Bridge over the Rappah... More

Interior view of Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C. taken by a Confederate ...

Photograph showing debris inside the fort. No. 4382. Date and photographer's name from 99 Historic Images of Civil War Charleston, ed. by Garry Adelman, John Richter, and Bob Zeller, Center for Civil War Photo... More

Rebel earthworks commanding the passage at Germanna ford, abandoned on...

Troops inspecting earthworks in foreground, while regiments march past in background. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed above image. Sketch is divided into a 3.5 cm. grid, numbered across top and l... More

Off Charleston, Library of Congress drawings collection

Seascape with ships, fort, and smoke.

View of Capt. Mac's battery, Port Hudson, La.

Photograph shows Captain Albert G. Mack's Union soldiers with cannons behind breastworks. Information from: Image of War Volume IV by William C. Davis, p. 75: The 18th New York Artillery used cotton bales, shie... More

[Lieutenant Samuel K. Thompson of Co. C, 54th U.S. Colored Troops Infa...

Photograph shows identified soldier, Samuel K. Thompson, with unidentified soldiers. Weapon identification, fort identification, and date from information provided by Jack Melton, November 2015. Frame: Berg, n... More

Bombardment of Fort M'Allister by the iron-clad fleet / from a sketch ...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, no. 326 (1863 March 28), p. 196.

Interior Views of Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C. taken by a Confederate...

Photograph showing ruins inside Fort Sumter. No. 4377. Date and photographer's name from 99 Historic Images of Civil War Charleston, ed. by Garry Adelman, John Richter, and Bob Zeller, Center for Civil War Pho... More

Interior views of Fort Sumter, S.C. taken by a Confederate photographe...

Photograph showing the Confederate garrison and troops amidst the ruins of the interior of the fort. No. 4379. Date and photographer's name from 99 Historic Images of Civil War Charleston, ed. by Garry Adelman... More

Interior of breastworks on Round Top, Gettysburg / negative by T.H. O'...

Photograph showing a temporary fortification abandoned by the Union army on the Gettysburg line. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomon... More

The battle of Gettysburg. The gateway of the cemetery, the center of t...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.75) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The siege of Vicksburg, the fight in the crater of Fort Hill, after th...

Print shows Union soldiers in trench and behind wooden walls and gabions as an assault is made on Fort Hill during the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Includes a "description of the position" with a key that i... More

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