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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

2d Division of Engineer Corps, in the Sierra Madre, New Mexico, November, 1867. (Water Shed of Continent,) 1,000 miles west of Missouri River. , Engineers. Photographs of the American West

Confederate soldiers as they fell near the center of the battlefield of Gettysburg | Library of Congress

Description: Peace Street - Winburg Refugee Camp. Location: Winburg Description: School children - Winburg Refugee Camp. Location: Winburg school, boerwar, concentrationcamps, africa, peacestreetwinburgrefugeecamp

Battery A, Fourth U.S. Artillery, Robertson's Brigade. James Gardner; American, born Scotland, 1832-after 1865. Date: 1864. Dimensions: 17.7 x 23 cm (image/paper); 31.1 x 44.5 cm (album page). Albumen print, pl. 59 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866). Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Group of 7th New York Infantry 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md; American; about 1870; Albumen silver print

Headquarters of the 21st Michigan Infantry. 1865 (). No. B-524, Title from item, Caption continues: (US Army Signal corps "Brady photographs" catalogue, 1921, no. B-524). [LC-B8184-40468-ZA, after a photographer working under the direction of Matthew B. Brady. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Fighting line near Pasay - the trenches and lookout guard - Philippine Islands , Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, Spanish-American War, 1898

Federal Camp at Johnsonville, Tenn., US, USA, America, Vintage photography

Camp at noon at L.B. Curtis & Co's. Gems in the pineries of Michigan 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Top hats, Loggers, Lumber camps, Midland County (Mich.)

Battery at Petersburg. Unknown

General Hospital, Gettysburg, August, 1863. No. 5350, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg.

43rd Reg. of N.Y. Volunteers Camp Griffin, near Lewinsvile, Va. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia

British Naval Landing Party in the Maedamura Battery, Shimonoseki. Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)

French legionnaire colonial soldiers at a base in Morocco. postcard 1909

Army forge in front of Petersburg, Virginia. No. 4139, Title from item, Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, c1866, v. II, pl. 77, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Petersburg.

Photograph captures the moment just after the drop of the Lincoln Conspirators. Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) and his assistant captured the execution of the conspirtators of the assasination of the American President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Gardnerís camera captures the moment just after the drop. Dated 1865

Camp on Morris Island. No. 4973, Title from item, Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Views in Charleston Harbor, S.C, Photograph is half of a stereograph pair, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Military camps, South Carolina, Morris Island, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, United States, South Carolina, Morris Island.

Gen. Steinman's Farm. William L. Gill (American, 1827 - 1893)

Paris - Removal of the Bodies of Hostages - Prison of Roquette Removing hostage bodies, rocket prison , album card. Photography of Ernest Charles Eugène Appert (1830-1890).

Inauguration of the Suez Canal, boarding the troops in Port-Said (instantanee) ..

Army of the James, pontoon bridges across James River at Deep Bottom and Varina. No. B979, Title from item, Mounted with five other photographs, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Deep Bottom.

Korósko, Sycomores et Campement d'une Caravane pour le Sennr 1851-52, printed 1853-54 Félix Teynard French. Korósko, Sycomores et Campement d'une Caravane pour le Sennr 261803

Rebel Prisoners, Gettysburgh; Studio of Mathew B. Brady (American, about 1823 - 1896); about 1862; Albumen silver print

European personnel, Segei sic si kassim ", Dutch East Indies, 1888 photograph Group portrait of 12 men of Indonesian and European origin, sitting at a table with drinks and (hunting) guns. photographic support. cardboard albumen print Dutch East Indies, The

British soldiers are attacking a hill in Norvalspont, Anonymous, 1901 stereograph Norvalspontpublisher: New York (city) (possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print the soldier; the soldier's life. attack ~ siege Norvalspont

Magnifying soldiers during exercise in Fontainebleau. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and autoraces.

Bank safes being guarded , Safes, Debris, Vigilance, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906

Bazaar at..

Campamento de Indios Kadiweu, Corumba. Unknown

Camp scene at L.B. Curtis & Co's Camp, Midland Co.; Page & Benson's Otter Lake, Lapeer Co; W.W. Crapo's, Tuscola Co; Mich.. James A. Jenny (American, active 1860s)

Photo collection Deli Society. Photo album Deli Maatschappij: "views from Deli and the Battak Country by K. Feilberg" (1870). Group or Battaks. 1870. Batakland, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Hanging of Joseph Brassell and George Andrew for murders of Russell and John J. Allison of Putnum County. 1878. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Tennessee, Crowds, Hangings (Executions)

The 6th indigenous unit on a rest stop at Cars Benije, General D'Alessandro's march in Cirenaica, Libya, photograph by Mario Bolsini, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XL, No 23, June 8, 1913.

Effects of Union shot and shell on Culp's Hill. Stereo gems of Gettysburg scenery. 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.)

Penna. Cavalry at Newport News - en route to Porto Rico , Cavalry, Horses, Spanish-American War, 1898

Johnson Mill, Petersburg, Virginia. Timothy O'Sullivan; American, born Ireland, 1840-1882. Date: 1865. Dimensions: 17.7 x 22.9 cm (image); 31.2 x 44.7 cm (album page). Albumen print, pl. 80 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866). Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Cuba, December 1896. Cuban War. Chapeo of the bush on the trail from Júcarro to Morón.

5th Maine Stevens' Battery, near Culp Hill, Gettysburg, Pa. Gettysburg battlefield. 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.)

Hitler Youth en Bund Deutscher Mädel, Anonymous, 1935 - 1938 photograph Album magazine with four photos of the boys and girls of the Hitlerjugend and the Bund Deutscher Mädel during marching and military exercises. Boys from the Hitlerjugend of Landjahrlager 1935 in Wolmersdorf. Part of the Hitlerjugend photo album. Germany photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print military training. drum (musical instrument) - CC - out of doors. military music Germany

Camp at noon at Thomas Foster's. In the pineries 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Michigan, Saws, Grinding wheels, Loggers, Lumber camps

Elsevier photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina visits military maneuvers visit France, company President Fallies, Minister War Millerand Commander Moornoury. June 3, 1912. France, Satory

Seventh Regiment National Guards, from Los Angeles, camped in Lincoln Square, Oakland, Cal. 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, California. National Guard

Avenue, Mess and Capt. Hill's House Captain R. B. Hill British 1850s

Army Forge Scene, in Front of Petersburg. David Knox; American, active 19th century. Date: 1864. Dimensions: 17.2 x 22.6 cm (image/paper); 31.1 x 44.3 cm (album page). Albumen print, pl. 77 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866). Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Pvt. James P. Bonnett and group 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Some of Russia's famous Cossacks in the far east , Soldiers, Horses

New York, Underwood and Underwood, Modderrivier, Packing up at the Modder to join Roberts - these mounted Infantry helped to corner Gen. Cronje's brave fighters at Paardeberg, S. Africa, Soldiers pack their things at the Modderrivier to be closed with Lord Roberts (Frederick Sleigh Roberts), New York (city), verso - printed, stereograph, stereo photo, photographs, Works and Studios ~, Arlington, NJ Littleton, NH Washington, DC, recto - printed, 62, Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood., height 88 mm, width 178 mm, photographer, 1900 - 1900, cardboard, karton, photographic paper, photo paper, albums print, albumen print, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Camp of the 5th Dragoon Guards Made 1855 England. Salted paper print, plate 14 from the album Photographs Taken in the Crimea (1856) . Roger Fenton

Grand Army Review, Washington, D.C.. Artist: Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821-1882 Washington, D.C.). Dimensions: Image: 3 3/4 × 20 1/2 in. (9.5 × 52.1 cm). Date: May 1865. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Gen. Baron Kodama, chief of general army staff to Marshall Oyama, at his headquarters, Yentai, North of Liao Yang, Manchuria , Generals, Kodama, Gentarō, 1852-1906

British soldiers load in the camp at the Aar Bread of a cart, Underwood and Underwood, 1900 stereograph The Aar photographic support. cardboard albumen print bread, loaf. the soldier; the soldier's life The Aar

For 'faith and fatherland' - fighting priest and his flock, Graeco-Turkish War , Soldiers, Revolutionaries. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Camp scene, abandoned winter quarters 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Gettysburg - Vets. at mess

De Aar, Underwood and Underwood, Mounted Rifleman at De Aar getting ready to join Roberts - S. Africa, Military at De Aar in South Africa, recto - handwritten, stereograph, stereo photo, photos, Works and Studios Sun Sculpture trade mark Arlington NJ Littleton NH Washington DC, recto - printed, 169, height 88 mm, width 178 mm, photographer, 1900 - 1900, photographic paper, photo paper, cardboard, albumen print

Troop I. U.S. Cavalry on the trunk of the 'Fallen Monarch,' Mariposa, California , Cavalry, Giant sequoias, National parks & reserves

Field Hospital, Second Army Corps, Brandy Station Made 1864 United States. Albumen print, pl. 54 from the album Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II (1866) . James Gardner

Presumably Italian soldier transports ammunition with a farmer's cart in the Dolomites, Henri de Rothschild (attributed to), 1916 photograph Part of photo album Medical mission H. de Rothschild to the Italian front 1916. Dolomites photographic support gelatin silver print war (+ land forces). four-wheeled, animal-drawn vehicle, e.g.: cab, carriage, coach (+ conveyance for transport of persons) Dolomites

Chaplain Brown of the 'Rough Riders' preaching to the regiment , Preaching, Religious services, Soldiers, Spanish-American War, 1898

On the U.S. skirmish line - ready for the enemy , Firearms, Soldiers, Foxholes

View showing how close the picket lines were to each other, near Petersburgh, Va.... 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

New York, Underwood and Underwood, Rietspruit, The greatest living British Soldier - Lord Roberts planning the advance on Pretoria - Reit Spruit, SA, Lord Roberts (Frederick Sleigh Roberts) planning the advance on Pretoria for a building at Rietspruit, South Africa, New York (city), verso - printed, stereograph, stereophoto, photographs, Works and Studios ~, Arlington, NJ Littleton, NH Washington, DC, recto - printed, 147, recto - handwritten, Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood., height 88 mm, width 178 mm, photographer, 1901 - 1901, cardboard, photographic paper, photo paper, albumen print, albumine print, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

US Civil War. Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. Bodies of dead Union soldiers lie on the Gettysburg battlefield. Photo by Timothy O'Sullivan (BSLOC_2018_9_30)

US Entrenchment, Mulinu'u, mid to late 1890s, Smoa, by Thomas Andrew. Acquired 1950.

Colonel, the old vet, survivor of 18 battles / J.A. Rose, photographer, Hillsdale, Mich. - digital file from original item | Library of Congress

Belle Plain, Virginia Wagons of the Sanitary Commission and a crowd at the landing. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States Sanitary Commission, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation, Wilderness, Battle of the, Va, 1864, Carts & wagons, United States, Virginia, Belle Plain.

Battery 'A' at mess , Military life, Soldiers, Military cookery, Eating & drinking

Broadway Landing, Appomattox River, Virginia. Supply boats and stores. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Burning Mines, Summit Hill.. James Zellner (American, active Pennsylvania 1870s - 1880s)

Col. Ord, at the mansion formerly occupied by Jeff. Davis, Richmond, Va.... 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

Horse levels of ammunition column.

Southern Military Academy. Civil War Photograph Collection . Military academies, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Cannon balls, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, South Carolina, Charleston.

Death of the Indian Chief Alexander. Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911. Periodical illustrations. 1885-11. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Indians of North America , Funeral customs and rites, Litters, Indians of North America , Spiritual life, King Philip's War, 1675-1676, Dead persons , 1670-1679, Wampanoag Indians , Massachusetts , 1670-1679, Nemasket River (Mass.), Tribal chiefs, Rivers, Funeral rites & ceremonies

Description: Washing Clothes. Another View. Description: Carpenters' Shop. Springfontein Camp. Location: Springfontein boerwar, concentrationcamps, africa, springfonteincamp

May 1791: The Star Barrier (Detail). (TF)

Soldiers Home, New York Avenue, Washington, D.C. A group of civilians and invalid soldiers are gathered on the porch and wooden walkway of the lodgings., c. 1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865. Soldiers' homes, Washington (D.C.)., 19 x 24 cm. Albumen prints

NEZ Percent War Dance Lewiston, IdahoLewiston, Idaho. NEZ Percent War Dance

Chevaux-de-Frise in front of the Rebel Works at Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virginia. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-3208. Chevaux-de-frise, Virginia, Petersburg, 1860-1870, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865.

Fair Oaks, Virginia, vicinity. Federal battery. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Peninsular Campaign, Va, 1862, United States, Virginia, Fair Oaks.

Corp. J. P. Goodliff 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Grave-mound of Greek heroes who routed the outnumbering Persians - Marathon, Greece , Mounds Burials, Croplands, Farmers. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

O'Connor House, where the Union Officers were imprisoned, under fire, on Broad St. near the Ashley Road, Charleston, South Carolina. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative may be available: LC-B811-3084. Houses, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Chimneys, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, War damage, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Detention facilities, Confederate, South Carolina, Charleston, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Destruction & pillage, South Carolina, Charleston, Charleston (S.C.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

R&R Dig Crew , Railroads. Messenger Collection

Cavalry Camp, looking towards Kadikoi Made 1855 England. Salted paper print, from the album Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea (1856) . Roger Fenton

Photo collection Deli Society. Photo album Deli Society: "Deli Society. East Coast of Sumatra" (C.J. Kleingrothe, Medan). Enterprise Medan. Harvesting tobacco. 1905. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Shelters behind German Lines

French legionnaire colonial soldiers on patrol near the Atlas Mountains, Morocco. postcard 1909

Image reproduction: Aleksander Lesser (1814-1884), funeral of fifths - according to the image from the collections of M. Bersohn; Z: "Tygodnik Illustrowany", 1906, No. 22, p. 422; 1906 (1906-00-00-1906-00-00);Bersohn, Mathias (1823-1908), Bersohn, Mathias (1823-1908)-collections, Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884), Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884)-reproduction, five fallen, 1861, weekly illustrated (Warsaw - magazine - 1859-1939) - illustrations, cemeteries, painting, Polish painting, funerals, January Uprising (1863-1864)

Serving out Army supplies to unending bread line of refugees at Ft. Mason, San Francisco disaster. 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, Bread & soup lines, Fort Mason (Calif.)

'When the cannon's roar is still' - sleeping by their arms (Dec. 30th) before Colesberg, South Africa , Military life, Sleeping, Firearms, Soldiers, South African War, 1899-1902

Plymouth Tercentenary celebration, October 4, 1921, dedication ceremony of antique cannon presented as a gift of the British government, memorial mounted on Burial Hill , Anniversaries, Monuments & memorials, Dedications. Plymouth Tercentenary Photographs

Retribution, Hanging Mutineers; Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909); 1858; Albumen silver print

Sic Semper Sicariis/ Reading the Death Warrant No. 2.. Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)

First Corps Cadets, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia : encampment at Hingham, July 13 to 18, 1885. Indexed for points of interest.... , Massachusetts , Plymouth ,county , Hingham

Description: Twelve photographs presented by Mr. E.C.T. Cloustow, 1916. The Alkali of Dekina (Bassa Prov.) Location: Dekina Date: 1916 Description: Twelve photographs presented by Mr. E.C.T. Cloustow, 1916. The Sarakin's band. Skonoko. Date: 1916 Description: Twelve photographs presented by Mr. E.C.T. Cloustow, 1916. The Sarakin Skonoko (Bassa Prov.) Date: 1916 africa

Groups A.D. Belle-Alliance Square. England after Aug. Fischer of H.Walger ..

Umbulwana (Boer position) from east end of Help-maker (British) - Siege of Ladysmith, S.A...

Monroe Tavern, 1775 , Centennial celebrations, Festive decorations, Taverns Inns, Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775

Fair Oaks, Virginia, vicinity. Battery M., 2d U.S. Artillery, commanded by Captain Henry Benson. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Peninsular Campaign, Va, 1862, Benson, Henry, United States, Virginia, Fair Oaks.

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