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Civil War Camps and Fortifications

Historical images depicting Civil War soldiers, camp settings, and fortifications, showcasing the military environment and equipment in a sepia tone.

Views in camp of 50th New York Engineers in front of Petersburg, Va. | Library of Congress

Etching by Romeyn de Hooghe depicting events of the Makassar war from 1666 to 1669, created in 1669, showing military conflict and ships.

General view of National Cemetry Cemetery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Gettysburg (Pa.), Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.)

Gallant storming of a Boer kopje by the Suffolks, at Colesberg, S. A., Dec. 31st - praised by Gen. French , Warfare, Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, Hills, South African War, 1899-1902

Reserves held ready for a fierce assault on forts near Namakoyama - siege of Port Arthur , Firearms, Soldiers, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

Trying the Rifle before the Queen's Arrival.. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

Captain Hall, & group of the 14th, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

Brandy Station, Virginia Wagons and men of the U.S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Communications, Telegraph, United States, Virginia, Brandy Station.

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Ordnance depot on Morris Island | Library of Congress

Native Christians fleeing from the "Boxers", 1900, China, by James Ricalton, Underwood & Underwood.

A bad casualty for the British Field Hospital after the hard battle at the Modder (Feb. 13), S. Africa..

Tents at Fort (Battery) Robinett, Corinth, Mississippi, where Colonel William P. Rogers, 2nd Texas Infantry Regiment was killed on October 3, 1863. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , pp/liljpaper. Rogers, William P, 1819-1862, Homes & haunts, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union, Tents, Mississippi, Corinth, 1860-1870, Forts & fortifications, Mississippi, Corinth, 1860-1870, Batteries (Weaponry), Mississippi, Corinth, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Union.

View of military camp. Charles Parker, photographer (British, active 1860s) about 1864 View of a military encampment with a number of conical tents. Visible in the foreground are cultivated fields, and in the background, several wooden structures, possibly barracks. Also visible are a number of people engaging in various activities near the tents.

Howard University. 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (D.C.), Universities & colleges, African American college students, Howard University

Image reproduction: Wojciech Kossak (1856-1942), fragment of "Battle of Pyramids" ("Crowds of Mameluk decimated with French cannons"; from: "Biesiada Literacka", 1901, No. 15, p. 295; Literary Biesiada (Warsaw; Magazine; 1876 -1917); 1901 (1901-00-00-1901-00-00); was downloaded from the Muse of the National Museum in Warsaw; printing / printing; fibers / paper products; Di 81547 MNW; all rights reserved.

Horses and cars in an army camp in Fontainebleau, 1896 photograph Part of photo album of a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first cars and car races. Fontainebleau paper. photographic support land forces (+ cavalry, horsemen). land forces Fontainebleau

50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Gettysburg, Pa., July, 1865 , Dress parade of the 50th Penn. Infantry, Gettysburg, Pa., July, 1865. No. 25, Title from item, 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, c2003, Included in alternate title: (LoC caption includes: "Present at the laying of corner stone at Gettysburg, July 4."), Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg.

Chesterfield Bridge on North Anna, Va., with rebel redoubt in the distance, carried by the 2nd Corps under Gen. Hancock, 23rd May, 1864. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1862 - 1865. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Labrador. Rigolette. Officers of Hudson Bay Company.. H.N. Robinson (American, active 1870s)

Gen. Kelly-Kenny's Infantry creeping on the Boers at Dreifontein - on the march to Bloemfontein, S.A...

Wagon Park, Brandy Station, Virginia.

Cavalerist, a barrier taking. .

Armed farmers on horseback in a street in Pretoria, Anonymous, 1896 photograph Part of album with 191 photos from a trip to and through South Africa. Pretoria paper. photographic support land forces (+ cavalry, horsemen) Pretoria

Painting the Racławice Panorama: Wojciech Kossak sitting with a pallette on scaffolding with the part of the canvas showing the scene of the struggle of the 2nd Foot Regiment of Józef Wodzicki. Hamel i Feigl (Lwów ; skład materiałów fotograficznych ; 1892-ca 1905), merchant employer, unknown, photographer

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Anchor Park, Charlestown Navy Yard , Naval yards & naval stations, Charlestown Navy Yard Mass.

Methuen's gallant Infantry storming a Kopje at Gras Pan, South Africa..

"At Home." Major Powell. Column Reporter. Hillers, photo. Maj. C.W. Ingalls. John K. Hillers (American, 1843 - 1925)

Tents on Broadway east of Offinct? , Camps, Tents

Confederate Encampment : Centreville.. 1865. Photographs. Manuscripts and Archives Division. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Encampment of the Horse Artillery. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

Indian prisoners at Fort Marion. St. Augustine series. 1878. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Florida, Saint Augustine (Fla.), Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.), Forts & fortifications , Florida , Saint Augustine, Indians of North America, Prisoners of war

Convalescent camp, near Alexandria, Virginia. No. 373, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Alexandria.

Mohammedan throngs during 'Sacrificial Week,' outside the eastern wall of Jerusalem, Palestine , Crowds Edgar Sutton Dorr Photograph Collection

Description: Acting Governor States Recruiting Tour in Central Province, Gold Coast, 1917. Recruiting Durbar at Cape Coast Castle 17. Feb. 1917. Location: Gold Coast, Cape Coast Date: 17 February 1917 Description: Acting Governor States Recruiting Tour in Central Province, Gold Coast, 1917. Recruiting Durbar, Cape Coast Castle 17. Feb. 1917. Part of Crowd. Location: Gold Coast, Cape Coast Date: 17 February 1917 Description: Acting Governor States Recruiting Tour in Central Province, Gold Coast, 1917. Recruiting Durbar, Cape Coast Castle 17. Feb. 1917. Location: Gold Coast, Cape Coast Date: 17 February 1917 Description: Acting Governor States Recruiting Tour in Central Province, Gold Coast, 1917. Recruiting Durbar in Courtyard of Elmina Castle. 17 Feb. 1917. Location: Gold Cost, Elmina Date: 17 February 1917 Description: Acting Governor States Recruiting Tour in Central Province, Gold Coast, 1917. Small wayside recruiting Durbar at Fanti Nyankumasi, near Cape Coast, 19 Feb. 1917. Locati

View of battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa; William H. Tipton (American, 1850 - 1929, active Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); about 1870; Albumen silver print

Post Sommelsdijk, 1884 photograph Seven soldiers pose for one of the homes of Fort Sommelsdijck. At the front of the house is a woman with two children. With the completion of Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam, Fort Sommelsdijck on the above Cottica was canceled. The fort continued to serve as a military post with a field hospital and was used in the fight against the Maroons. Suriname photographic support albumen print Sommelsdijk

Water battery and hot shot furnace of the Old Spanish Fort at St. Augustine, Florida. 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Florida, Saint Augustine (Fla.), Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.), Forts & fortifications , Florida , Saint Augustine, Batteries (Weaponry), Sea walls, Sightseers

A bombproof shelter for the soldiers during the siege of Petersburg, August 10, 1864. Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection). United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Petersburg.

Prince of Wales on Boston Common , Events, Crowds

War views. No. 2042, Bounty brokers looking out for substitutes. Title from item, Inscribed on negative for right frame at bottom left: 2042, (DLC/PP-2012:069.08). Military bounties, 1860-1870, Swindlers, 1860-1870, Draft (Military service), 1860-1870, Mercenaries (Soldiers), 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Recruiting & enlistment, Union.

Sightseers and residents surveying the damage. Photographic sketches in and about the city of Hartford. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1878. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Connecticut, Tornadoes , Connecticut , Wallingford, Natural disasters

Indians at Fort Mojave, Arizona, Sicihoot, War Chief of the Mojaves. , Military personnel, Forts & fortifications, Mohave Indians, Indians of North America. Photographs of the American West

Jamieson's Column at Doornkop - Scene of Engagement before Surrender albumen prints, black-and-white prints

Sherman's Grand Army. Looking up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Treasury buildings. Maj. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis and staff and 9th Army Corps passing in review. The war for the Union, photographic history. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

First Artillery New York, Chancellorsville, Virginia. Attributed to A.J. Russell (American, 1830 - 1902)

Soldiers at the bridge over the Kroeng Tjoet near Lamjong, A. Kaulfuss, 1891 - 1894 photograph This photo is part of an album. photographic support albumen print bridge. military service. Europeans Aceh

Group of soldiers posing on a lawn in France, in the background horses.Part or photo album from a French Amateur Photographer with Recordings of a Family, Distillery Delizy & Doaksub Fils, The Army and Sights in France.

Indians Going to the War Dance.. Attributed to Norman A. Forsyth (American, 1869 - 1949)

British soldiers who do the laundry in their camp at the Aar, Underwood and Underwood, 1900 stereograph The Aar photographic support. cardboard albumen print laundering. the soldier; the soldier's life The Aar

CIVIL WAR-Fort guarding Washington D.C. during the Civil War.

Group of officers 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

U.S Military Telegraph Construction Corps Made 1864 United States. Albumen print, pl. 62 from the album Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II (1866) . Timothy O'Sullivan

Anged representation of the Royal Munster Fusiliers in one trench in South Africa; Royal Munsters Fusiliers Lining The Trenches on a Farmer Alarm, Honey Nest Kloof, S.A ...

Artillerymen. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)

Confederate Camp, Warrington Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, USA, by Jay Dearborn Edwards, 1861

Fortifications on Bermuda Hundred's Line near Point of Rocks, Va. | Library of Congress

Staged show of British soldiers who have a water car besieged in South Africa, Underwood and Underwood, 1900 stereograph South Africa photographic support. cardboard albumen print the soldier; the soldier's life South Africa

Scenes at West Point and vicinity 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)

Broadway Landing, Appomattox River, Virginia. Park of artillery. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Cronje's men at Modder River waiting to be assigned to tents in the British Prison Camp, S.A...

Lord Roberts (3d to left) and Escort of Imperial Yeomanry entering Kroonstadt, Boer War, S. Africa..

Siege battery, W. P. M. A.. West Point views. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)

Shanghai, Kahler, WR, The light horse volunteers. Firing the salute in the public garden, Soldiers in Shanghai for the Diamond Jubilee of Victoria of the United Kingdom, photograph, photo, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, height 264 mm, width 175 mm, photographer, 1897 - 1897, photographic paper, photo paper, albumen print, albumine print

Behind the Orange River intrenchments holding back the bravely advancing Boers - S. Africa , Firearms, Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, Trench warfare, South African War, 1899-1902

Transport of English officers from Pretoria to Wonderboomberg; Relocation of the English officers to Wonderboomberg. Part of album with 191 photos from a trip to and through South Africa.

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Servants at Prince de Joinville's quarters | Library of Congress

Taylor's Tavern, near Falls Church, Virginia. No. 4422, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Falls Church.

Rapid fire! Having found the range, our guns-one is seen in recoil-make it hot for the Bosche, Realistic Travels, 1914 - 1918 stereograph cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print private soldier. firearms: cannon

Michael Rimington and his cavalry troops, South Africa, Anonymous, Underwood and Underwood, 1900 stereograph Zuid-Afrikapublisher: New York (City) (Possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print officer (+ cavalry, horsemen). land forces (+ cavalry, horsemen) South Africa

Port of Balaklava with ships and tents, during the Crimean War; Port De Balaklava Pendant La Guerre De Crimèe.

Army repair shop / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive by A. Gardner.. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, c1866, v. 2, no. 70, Copyright by A. Gardner, Title from item. United States, Army of the Potomac, 1860-1870, Maintenance & repair, Virginia, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel.

Commissary Department, Head-Quarters Army of the Potomac. Timothy O'Sullivan; American, born Ireland, 1840-1882. Date: 1864. Dimensions: 17.2 x 22.5 cm (image/paper); 31.1 x 44.6 cm (album page). Albumen print, pl. 61 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866). Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Battle of Gettysburg and Little Round Top.. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)

View of troops in formation with camp in background | Library of Congress

The Miners, Tamaya. Helsby & Co.

Arlington, national cemetery. Tomb of unknown soldiers of Bull Run and the route to the Rappahannock. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia, Arlington (Va.)

Army wagon train. Porto Rico , Carts & wagons, Troop movements, Spanish-American War, 1898

Camp of the 4th Dragoon Guards, near Karyni. Roger Fenton; English, 1819-1869. Date: 1855. Dimensions: 13.1 × 16.7 cm (image/paper); 40.5 × 53.1 cm (mount). Salted paper print, from the album "Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea" (1856). Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Intrenchment at () Relay House, B & O R.R., Mass. Regiment(), USA, US, Vintage photography

The Worcesters charging a Kopje and facing death near Norvalspont, South Africa..

Field Hospital 2d Division, 2d Army Corps near Brandy Station, Virginia, March, 1864 , Brandy Station, Virginia, Feb. 1864. Field Hospital of 1st Div., 2nd Corps.. No. 305, Title from item, Alternate title, photographer 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, c2003, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Brandy Station.

US Civil War. Federal occupation of Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 2 - Nov. 15, 1864, Union Army of Gen. William Sherman, destroy the railroad before evacuation of Atlanta, Oct.-Nov. 1864. Photo by George Barnard (BSLOC_2018_9_95)

Slave pen, Alexandria, Va. Soldiers standing in front of Price, Birch, & Co, Dealers in Slaves. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1880 - 1891. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

San Juan Hill, where Col. Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' led the charge. -The victorious army in camp, Cuba , Military camps, Tents, Spanish-American War, 1898

Dispatching Navajoe Messengers, Fort Defiance, N.M.. Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, about 1840 - 1882)

Utica Citizens Corps. Camp Greenman, Saratoga Springs, 1869.. Deloss Barnum (American, 1825 - 1873)

The refugee camps and shelters at Ft. Mason after the earthquake and fire disaster, San Francisco. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1906. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, San Francisco (Calif.), Earthquakes , California, San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906, Tents, Fort Mason (Calif.)

British Scouts firing on a Boer Patrol (Jan 10th) near Colesberg, South Africa..

5th Maryland Regiment, Parade Ground, Common , Military parades & ceremonies, Centennial celebrations

Etching by Georg Philipp Rugendas depicting soldiers in a warehouse, created between 1708 and 1724, showing storage, goods, and military personnel.

West Point, cadet's encampment. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)

German prisoners on a battlefield during the World War I, France.

Wagon park, Brandy Station, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive by A. Gardner.. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, c1866, v. 2, no. 64, Copyright by A. Gardner, Title from item. United States, Army of the Potomac, 1860-1870, Carts & wagons, Virginia, Brandy Station, 1860-1870, Military camps, Virginia, Brandy Station, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Union, Virginia, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation, Union, Virginia.

Cheeves' Point Battery, Charleston. Attributed to George N. Barnard (American, 1819 - 1902)

British Signals from Hospital Hill to New Zealand Hill during reconnoissance in force, Feb. 7th - South Africa..

Group portrait of unknown sailors on the deck of a ship, Alphonse Bernoud, 1851 - 1889 photograph paper. cardboard albumen print seaman. parts of ship's exterior: mast

Our Volunteers awaiting orders under the tropical sun in the Philippines.. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)

Captured Guns from Ali Musjid parked on Shergai Height, General Appleyard, C.B. (Companion of the Bath), V.C. (Victoria Cross) and Staff in foreground. John Burke (Irish, about 1843 - 1900)

't Huys to Renswoude.

Pvt. F. H. A. Bucklin, and group 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

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