Civil War Historical Imagery

A selection of historical photographs capturing scenes from the Civil War, including battlefields and fortifications, reflecting the era's military history.

Scene in a mountain landscape with a hunter and a gems, anonymous, 1868 - 1890 stereograph cardboard. paper albumen print hunter. hoofed animals

Interior of Rebel works in front of Petersburgh, Va. View taken April 3d, 1865. 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

Interior of Fort Moultrie. Battery "B" and group of palmette trees in distance, Charleston, S.C. Scenes of the Great Rebellion. 353. 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. South Carolina, Charleston (S.C.), Forts & fortifications , South Carolina , Charleston

1670 and 1870 at Alcatraz Island.. Eadweard J. Muybridge (American, born England, 1830 - 1904)

Burial of dead at Fredericksburgh, Va..

Mr. George Steele's cottage, Russ' Island, with family group and party of campers. Anniquam River Scenery. No. 11 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Ann, Cape (Mass.), Houses

Where Sumner's Corps charged at Antietam. 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

Scene in a mountain landscape with a hunter and a gems, anonymous, 1868 - 1890 stereograph cardboard. paper albumen print hunter. hoofed animals

The Gloucesters charging a kopje and facing death, near Norvals Pont (Feb. 3rd), S. Africa , Warfare, Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, Hills, South African War, 1899-1902

View of dead at Devil's Den. 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.)

Fort See. Deloss Barnum (American, 1825 - 1873)

Fort, near Petersburg, 1865. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia

The "Monitor," showing her ports open and the muzzles of her "barkers." War views. 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, Monitor (Ironclad), Gun turrets, Warships

General view of the Charlestown Navy Yard. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Mortars (Ordnance), Charlestown Navy Yard (Mass.)

Fort McAllister, near Savannah, Ga., interior views. 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, Tents , 1860-1869, cannons , 1860-1869, Forts & fortifications , Georgia , Savannah , 1860-1869

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.)

Granvie() independante. Attributed to Fraget & Viret

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in front of tent at Columbus, Kentucky. Title devised by Library staff. Military camps, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, Military life, Union, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

Holding the line near Dickebush before our final assault on Messines Ridge, June 7th, 1917..

Group at the entrance of Cave 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Rhode Island, Warwick (R.I.), Caves, Sightseers

A bad case, Sister" - wounded Fusilier after the Boers brave stand near Orange River, S. Africa..

China, Columbia's noble soldier boys- American giving water to Japanese after battle of Tientsin, China, Ricalton, James, Underwood and Underwood, Gelatin silver, 1901, Number 57 in a boxed set of stereographs. From the China series. Aftermath of the battle of Tientsin (Tianjin), June 1900, when allied troops (British, American, Japanese) were attacked on their way to Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion.

Tenderly carrying a "blighty" case to an aid post through the maze of trenches at Passchendaele..

Heroic Washington Volunteers advancing across an open field - Filipinos 800 yards in front - Taquig, Philippines.. Underwood & Underwood (American, founded 1881, dissolved 1940s)

Confederate gun on James River. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia

British Field Telegrapher sending news of victory at Klip Drift (Feb. 12), South Africa..

The Colossal Bronze Equestrian Statue of Gen. Andrew Jackson. 1860. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Monuments & memorials , Washington (D.C.), Cannons, Equestrian statues, Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 , Statues , Washington (D.C.), Lafayette Park (Washington, D.C.)

Breastworks near the Appomattox River, Va., North Side; Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, 1862 - 1902); about 1861 - 1865; Albumen silver print

Soldiers of the Gordon Highlanders receive a message on the heliograph, South Africa, Anonymous, 1900 stereograph Zuid-Afrikapublisher: New York (City) (Possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print sunbeams. communication (military). (military) signals South Africa

Camp of Veterans Associates, at Misery Island, Salem Harbor. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Salem (Mass.)

Dead horses of Bigelow's (9th Massachusetts) Battery | Library of Congress

Soldiers Quarters in Chattanooga, Camerons hill in distance and Raccoon Mts.. Boehl & Koenig

Captured Mexican Mortars, West Point.. John P. Soule (American, 1827 - 1904)

Dead at Little Round Top, position of Berdan sharp-shooters. Sights and scenes from the battlefield at Gettysburg. 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.)

Gen. Grant's family. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Martha's Vineyard (Mass.), Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 , Family

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Columbus, Kentucky sitting in tent. Title devised by Library staff. Military camps, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, Military life, Union, Kentucky, Columbus, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

Cable that was stretched across the Hudson, West Point. American 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.)

The sea face of Fort Sumpter sic, east side, Charleston Harbor, S. C., looking n. e.. 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

Confederate soldiers laid out for burial. Spottsylvania, May 19, 1864. 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

A 12 pound brass cannon, Ordnance Wharf, City Point, 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

Men fighting in haystack, another man above in loft. Unknown

Entrance to the Mine in the Rebel Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers "Fort Damnation."...after the storming of Petersburgh, Va.. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

Govt Dam No 7. Unknown maker, American

General Grant's Council of War. Shows Gen. Grant reading map over Gen. Meade's shoulder at Massaponax Church, Va. 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

Officer and horse 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

National cemetery, Arlington, Va. 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.)

Yo Semite Digger Indian, Yo Semite Valley, Cal.. J.J. Reilly (American, born Scotland, 1838 - 1894)

Capture of a Hun blockhouse in the Hindenburg Line at Croiselles, wrecked by our artillery preparation, Realistic Travels, in or after 1916 - c. 1917 stereograph Pas-de-Calais cardboard. photographic support trenches. private soldier

Five men and one woman on a rocky shore, on or by a boat , Boats, Bodies of water, Firearms, Alexandre Benois Collection

U.S. Soldiers heliographing on the top of the Tartar City Wall. Peking, China.. Carleton H. Graves (American, 1867 - 1943)

Wallingford tornado , Debris, Tornadoes

7th N.Y. Regiment. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1875. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, Centennial celebrations , Massachusetts , Boston, United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 7th (1861-1863)

Ruins of Fort Putnam, West Point, N. Y. A relic of the revolution. 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.)

Group of Civil War soldiers at camp site, one man seated, sewing his shirt. Unknown maker, American

Church yard, Jamestown, Va. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia, Jamestown (Va.)

Contraband Foreground. Army of the Potomac. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

View of Camp Douglas from residence of commanding officer, looking south. Views of the great west from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, Utah series. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Utah

Before Liao Yang - brave Japanese in open field about to fire on masked Russian battery in the hills , Artillery Weaponry, Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

Hunnewell's Italian Gardens, Wellesley, Mass. Stereoscopic treasures. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Wellesley (Mass.)

Ottoman Rock. Beauties of the Brandywine, Delaware. No. 250 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Delaware

Telling Tommies' tales Description: Correspondence from a staff member at the Great Western Railway office in Paddington, London, who went to war.

Apaches on the war path. Arizona views. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arizona, Indians of North America , Arizona, Apache Indians

Fort Wrangle, from Rock Cod.. Eadweard J. Muybridge (American, born England, 1830 - 1904)

Stereoscopic views of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 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.)

Batteries to the front, Battle of Gettysburg.. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)

Men on raft with another group of men on shore. Unknown

War Chief of the Zuni Indians.. Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, about 1840 - 1882)

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Fort Lincoln, From Block House,Indian Quarters at Fort Lincoln; F.A. Taylor (American, active 1870s - 1900s); 1870s; Albumen silver print

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, Disaster victims

Trophy Point, West Point. 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.)

French graves smashed by German shell fire; a German sniper was discovered hidden in a coffin, Realistic Travels, 1914 - 1918 stereograph cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print churchyard, cemetery. private soldier

Monument where Lincoln's famous address was made, 979 of the great battle's unknown dead, Gettysburg. 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.)

Crow Nest, West Point. Stereoscopic 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.)

Group of soldiers seated around a table ". Anonymous photography. Stereoscopic view on albumin paper. Around 1870. Paris, Carnavalet Museum. 99955-26 Stero, Vue stereo, Vue stereoscopique

The Devil's Den from above. Gems around the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa. 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.)

Slaves, Montgomery, Alabama. Unknown maker, American

Painting the Racławice Panorama: Jan Styka with a pallette on scaffolding with the part of the canvas showing Tadeusz Kościuszko, leading the second group of Kosynierzy (scythe-bearers) into battle. Hamel i Feigl (Lwów ; skład materiałów fotograficznych ; 1892-ca 1905), merchant employer, unknown, photographer

Fort Snelling, Junction of Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.. William H. Illingworth (American, 1842 - 1893)

Lord Roberts' army (Frederick Sleigh Roberts) is waiting for orders to enter Pretoria, 5 June 1900, Anonymous, 1900 stereograph Pretoriapublisher: New York (city) (possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print troop movements, transportation. the soldier; the soldier's life Pretoria

St. James St., St. Augustine, Fla. 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

Kiowa, Comanchee, and Caddoe Indians, confined in Fort Marion. St. Augustine, Florida. 1875. 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, Kiowa Indians, Comanche Indians, Prisoners of war, Caddo Indians

Group of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians in natural costume, confined in Fort Marion. St. Augustine, Florida. Southern views in the United States, no. 121. 1875 - 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, Arapaho Indians, Cheyenne Indians

Volkstrachten aller voelker. Deutschland - Oestreich. Tirol.. Unknown maker, German

Presentation of soldiers who attack in Norvalspont, South Africa, Anonymous, 1901 stereograph Norvalspontpublisher: New York (city) (possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print the soldier; the soldier's life. siege Norvalspont

The smoking, desolate tomb of St. Pierre's 30,000 inhabitants - slain by a blast of Mont Pelée's poisonous breath - Martinique, W.I. , Volcanic eruptions, Disasters, Death, Pelée, Mount Martinique, Eruption, 1902

GENERAL VIEW OF THE MARCH field ..

View from casemates Confederate fort-D, looking north, Atlanta, Georgia. No. B579, Title from item, Hand written on back of mount: Miller III, 136, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Georgia, Atlanta.

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

Niagara. - General View from the American Side.. Langenheim, Loud & Company Langenheim Bros. & G.W. Loud

Display of hardware. Unknown

Unidentified men with cannon mounted on caisson , Cannons

Horror of horrors! A view of the great Stone Bridge, where thousands o fmen, women and children were burned, together with horses, cows, railroad trains, houses, stables, and everything the flood could carry. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1889. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Johnstown (Pa.), Floods , Pennsylvania , Johnstown

Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia. No. B141, Title from item, Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. 8, page 371, Hand written on verso from an unidentified source: Confederate Battery at Yorktown which fired upon the Federal Balloonist and upon which "Balloon Bryan" looked down. (Capt. John Randolph Bryan), Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Yorktown.

Camp Comfort - Hulett's Landing Saratoga, New York. L.H. Fillmore (American, active 1870s)

200 pound gun, Morris Island, used for shelling city of Charleston, S.C. 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

Tower of London. - Group of Drummers.. Frank Mason Good (English, 1839 - 1928)

Marines of the British Fleet 2500 feet underground, Oct. 22, 1908. Robinson Deep.. J. Wilbur Read (American, 1866 - 1946)

Falmouth, Virginia. A muss at headquarters, Army of the Potomac. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Sampson's fleet. U.S. Battleship 'Iowa' forward deck , Warships, Military life, Military personnel, Sailors

The battery at Fort Canby, Washington Territory Descriptive views of the American continent. 570. 1880 - 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State), Batteries (Weaponry), Cape Disappointment State Park (Wash.)

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