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Civil War Era Military Portraits

Historical photographs of military officers and soldiers from the Civil War era, showcasing uniforms, camp settings, and group gatherings typical of the 1860s.

Contraband foreground, US, USA, America, Vintage photography
Contraband foreground, US, USA, America, Vintage photography
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Cowboys at ranch
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Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., March 21, 1864, showing Bastion which was assaulted on the morning of Nov. 29, 1863. Transfer; Orlando M. Poe Papers; (DLC/PP-1985:644). Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884, Military service, Poe, O. M, (Orlando Metcalfe), 1832-1895, Military service, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Battlefields, Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Soldiers on a shooting range, presumably in France, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Part of photo album of a French amateur photographer with recordings of a family, Distillery Delizy & Doistau Fils, the army and sights in France. France paper. photographic support land forces. artillery range, firing range, shooting range ~ military training France
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Sailors drink a glass of deck, presumably in Sydney. Part of travel album with pictures of sights in Sydney.
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A group of officers 2 p. Uhlans in Czewl in Volhynia. Front of the Polish Legions in Volhynia. Janowski, Stanisław (1866 1942)
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Wehrmacht soldiers at breakfast. Wehrmacht soldiers are in a forest, a couple for a tent, at breakfast. Inscription: Beim Frühstück im "Friends" Kreise. Photo associated with album 'Kriegservernerungen'.
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U.S. Army, African American soldiers, ca. 1917
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Gen. Orozco and his staff.
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Military in Washington (state), Military facilities of the United States, Fort Walla Walla, 1906, Washington (state), Walla Walla, Fort, Wash.
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Emperor Maximilian's firing squad - Seven soldiers with bayoneted rifles stand at ease, in row formation, another soldier with sword at far right. Mexico, 1867
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Malaya: two seated Malay dignatories, Tengku Zia Uddin and Raja Ismail, surrounded by their staff and Klang Police. Photograph by J. Birch, 1874.
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Advancing across an open field-Japan's sturdy soldiers at Port Arthur, Single Image of Stereo Card, Underwood & Underwood, 1905
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Austrian lieutenant community in the circle of Galician farmers girl, February 1916.
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Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison and her daughter Elizabeth Harrison Walker with Mrs. Green and probably her daughter, Helen standing at tent of Emergency Services Corps camp where young women were trained in shooting, military d
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Japanese officers and war artist at Gen. Nogi's door , Military personnel, Military officers, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
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Execution of Nationalist Silan Lewis in Wilburton, in the Choctaw Nation Oklahoma, Nov. 5, 1895. According to tradition, a Light Horseman, Pusley was asked to perform the execution, which he did with a shot to the heart followed by suffocation. Lewis killed fellow Choctaw Joe Hoklotubbe in a dispute over the partitian of the Reservation into 160 allotments for Indians, with the 'surplus' land reverting to the government for settlement by non-Indians (BSLOC_2018_1_167)
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Railroad troops Command tower of the wire rope track
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The ready and alert position of the tool wagon of the Fire Brigade
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Field where General Reynolds Fell, Gettysburg.
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General Arolas and his military chiefs, (1896), 1920s. Artist: Unknown
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Our Scouts and Guides in 1863 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1863 Attributed to McPherson & Oliver At wars start, Lincoln did not want to arm free men of color or former or runaway slaves in the war effort. Eventually, his military strategists and prominent abolitionists persuaded him to accept the enlistment of African American soldiers. By late 1863 some 37,000 had enlisted in the Union army, in fifty-eight segregated regiments known as the United States Colored Troops. Another 3,200 served in the Union navy on fully integrated warships. This portrait of two former slaves employed as Union army guides and scouts was made in a picture tent at an encampment along the Mississippi River.. Our Scouts and Guides in 1863 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana 302359
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Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, Ga. No. 3. George N. Barnard (American, 1819 - 1902)
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12/31/1945. A tombstone has been placed at the site of Omar ben Haísun's tomb by the Excursionistas de Málaga society.
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07/31/1912. From the Bayonne shooting competition. 1, the Pistol champion, Van Asbroch (Belgian); 2, the Rifle champion, Sthaich (Swiss); 3, the champion of War weapon, Castro (Spanish).
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The Tonkin Campaign (French: Campagne du Tonkin) was an armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there. The campaign, complicated in August 1884 by the outbreak of the Sino-French War and in July 1885 by the Can Vuong nationalist uprising in Annam, which required the diversion of large numbers of French troops, was conducted by the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, supported by the gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla. The campaign officially ended in April 1886, when the expeditionary corps was reduced in size to a division of occupation, but Tonkin was not effectively pacified until 1896.
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Mitglieder der Expedition; (Linienschiffs-Lieutenant) Richard Basso (German , active 1882 - 1883); Jan Mayen, Norway; 1882 - 1883; Albumen silver print
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Warming up their camp lunches , Soldiers, Military camps, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
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Equipage de Francport: Le Feuille 1er Vigueur..
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City Point, Virginia. General Rufus Ingalls and group. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Tents in the United States, Weapons of the United States, Military in Washington (state), Buildings in Vancouver, Washington, 1906, Washington (state), Vancouver, Wash., Tent Pitching, Vancouver Barracks
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Jan Mayen, Bartrobbe. (Linienschiffs-Lieutenant) Richard Basso (German , active 1882 - 1883)
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Ottoman and Zouave soldiers in traditional costume visting Ohrdruf, Germany, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg Gotha 1915