Civil War Military Groups

Historical photographs of Civil War soldiers in uniform, posed around their camps, capturing the essence of military life in the 1860s.

7th N.Y. State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861 | Library of Congress

Major General J. J. Peck and staff. No. 4098, Title from item, Similar image: LC-B813-1907, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

7th N.Y. State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861 | Library of Congress

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861. No. B947, Title from item, Mounted with four other photographs, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. New York (State), Militia, Regiment, 7th, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Washington (D.C.)

23d New York Infantry | Library of Congress

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861 | Library of Congress

Officers of the 71st Highlanders.. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

Major General Philip Sheridan and his generals in front of Sheridan's tent. Title devised by Library staff, Original glass plate negative is in the collection of the National Archives (111-B-60), Gift ; J. W. Palmer, Washington, D.C. ; June 28, 1921 ; (DLC/PP-1921:46330), Published in: "War" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013. Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888, Davies, Henry Eugene, 1836-1894, Gregg, David McMurtrie, 1833-1916, Merritt, Wesley, 1834-1910, Torbert, Alfred Thomas Archimedes, 1833-1880, Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel.

Field and staff officers of 33d New York Infantry, Camp Granger, near Washington, D.C.. No. 4542, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1861-1863), United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Washington (D.C.)

Lieutenant Colonel Munro & officers of the 39th Regiment, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

22d New York State Militia near Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 1861 i.e.1862. No. B844, Title from item. Date based on 22nd NY history, Mounted with five other photographs, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. New York (State), Militia, Regiment, 22nd, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, West Virginia, Harpers Ferry.

Officers of 119th Pennsylvania Inf'y. No. B290, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 119th (1862-1865), United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

General Julius White and staff. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Union officers rest while their african-American orderly serves drinks. Warrenton, Virginia, during the American Civil War 1862

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

Menage distribution of a field cannons Battery at Meran, south of Gorizia (Görz).

Lt. Col. Shadforth & Officers of the 57th.. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

2d Rhode Island Infantry | Library of Congress

23d New York Infantry | Library of Congress

Captain Barlow, Captain Trevor, Captain Hall, Captain Dwyer, Major Budd, Captain Hammersley, 14th Regiment, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

2d Rhode Island Infantry | Library of Congress

2d Rhode Island Infantry | Library of Congress

Group portrait of soldiers; John Burke (British, active 1860s - 1870s); Afghanistan; 1878 - 1879; Albumen silver print

Untitled Made 1857 France. Albumen print, from the album Souvenirs du Camp de Chlons . Gustave Le Gray

Sergt. Nichols Underwood, Company C, Rhode Island Volunteers 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

British Officers of the 71st Highlanders with Dog, Portrait near Conical Tent with Military Camp in Background, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855

Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War, Volume I Made 1861-1865 United States. Bound volume of albumen prints (20) . Alexander Gardner

2d Rhode Island Infantry. No. 1036, Title from item, Mounted with five other photographs, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, Army, Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865) , United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

1860s GROUP OF NINE UNION SOLDIERS SEATED IN FRONT OF TENT HOLDING RIFLES LOOKING AT CAMERA

Officers of the 57th Regiment, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

Four Officers ca. 1864 Alexander Gardner American, Scottish Gardner was an expert in the new wet-collodion-on-glass-plate process of photography and able manager of Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C., portrait studio from 1858 until 1862, when he had a falling-out with his employer. In November 1862 he formed his own company, taking with him many of Brady's best photographers, including Egbert Guy Fowx (seen nearby). Like Brady, Gardner and his corps produced a vast photographic documentation of the Civil War, a selection of which forms the basis of his landmark publication, Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War (1866). Despite decades of painstaking research by dedicated historians and Civil War buffs, a large number of the era's photographs remain unidentified, including this fine portrait of four officers in the field. What is known is that the two men in the center wear forage caps featuring a round, sloping leather brim made popular by Gen. Irvin McDowell (leader of the Uni

Bengal Horse Artillery,1860 1860 Unknown. Bengal Horse Artillery,1860 287673

Cuba. Starving Cubans at Matanzas , Starvation, Sick persons, Medical aspects of war, Spanish-American War, 1898

33rd New York Infantry ca. 1861 Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady American. 33rd New York Infantry 268158

Officers of the 42nd Highlanders. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

Officers of 1st New York Light Artillery | Library of Congress

Group at Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October 1862 1862 Alexander Gardner American, Scottish. Group at Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October 1862 259601

23d New York Infantry | Library of Congress

Group of British Officers and Soldiers of the 13th Dragoon Guards, including Colonel Charles Doherty, Cornet Danzil Chamberlayne, Captain Soame Jenyns, and Veterinary-Surgeon Thomas Towers, Tents and Huts in Background, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855

A Fancy Group, in Front of Petersburg Made 1864 United States. Albumen print, pl. 76 from the album Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II (1866) . David Knox

Camp de Chlons: Zouaves de la Garde au Bivouac. Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820 - 1884)

Petersburg, Virginia. Field and staff officers of 39th U.S. Colored Infantry. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Photograph of the Austrian army with a battery of howitzers fighting against Belgrade. Circa 1914, Serbia.

African American 'contrabands' and Union soldiers at General Lafayette's headquarters near Williamsburg Road, VA, May 1862. They are Civil War refugees from slavery working for wages. Two women do laundry, and a male contraband chops wood. Another contraband reclines near a white soldier, possibly his employer. Photo by James F. Gibson (BSLOC_2018_5_88)

Four Navy officers seated on board the gunboat "Agawam" | Library of Congress

College Point. L. I.. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Long Island (N.Y.), Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)

Group of 23rd Infantry 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Stereo photograph of six Romanian soldiers in uniform, captured on albumin paper by Franz Duschek, showing military attire and formation.

Portrait of a group of New Zealand militiamen, 1880s, Blenheim, by William H. Macey.

Roger Fenton, 1819-1869, British, Officers of the 4th Light Dragoons, 1855, printed 1856. Salted paper print on thin, smooth, cream wove paper.

Sydney, Group portrait of the officers on the HM Screw Steamship Curaçao, with Willem van Braam, verso - handwritten, This photo is part of an album., photograph, foto, carte-de-visite, albumblad, foto's, État-Major, HM Screw Steamship Curaçao, in the bay of Sydney, Aug. 1871, 23x30x40, height 85 mm, width 51 mm, photographer, 1871-08 - 1871-08, cardboard, photographic paper, photo paper, albumen print, albumine print

Bengal Horse Artillery,1860. Artist: Unknown. Dimensions: Image: 11.3 x 18.6 cm (4 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.)Mount: 33 x 26 cm (13 x 10 1/4 in.). Date: 1860. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Chasseurs d'Afrique, Crimean War, Crimea, Photographed by Roger Fenton, 1855

Nine unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms and forage caps, eight with bayoneted muskets and one with a drum. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C, 2011, pp/liljunion. United States, Army, People, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, 1860-1870, Military uniforms, Union, 1860-1870, Rifles, 1860-1870, Bayonets, 1860-1870, Drums, 1860-1870, Musicians, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

The Peninsula, Virginia The staff of General Fitz-John Porter; Lts. William G. Jones and George A. Custer reclining. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Peninsular Campaign, Va, 1862, Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901, Custer, George A, (George Armstrong), 1839-1876, Jones, William G, United States, Virginia, Peninsula.

General Bosquets Quarters looking towards Mackenzie Farm; Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869); 1855; Salted paper print; 16.2 x 25.6 cm (6 3,8 x 10 1,16 in.)

Camp de Chlons: Zouaves de la Garde au Bivouac; Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820 - 1884); Chalons, France; 1857; Albumen silver print

Ambulance Department of the 9th Army Corps, at Petersburg, Virginia, in August 1864. Their outdoor office is sheltered from the sun by canvas and pine branches (BSLOC_2019_2_38)

Group of British Soldiers, 68th Regiment of Foot, British Army, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855

Four Officers. Artist: Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821-1882 Washington, D.C.). Dimensions: Image: 17.8 x 22.8 cm (7 x 9 in.). Date: ca. 1864.Gardner was an expert in the new wet-collodion-on-glass-plate process of photography and able manager of Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C., portrait studio from 1858 until 1862, when he had a falling-out with his employer. In November 1862 he formed his own company, taking with him many of Brady's best photographers, including Egbert Guy Fowx (seen nearby). Like Brady, Gardner and his corps produced a vast photographic documentation of the Civil War, a selection of which forms the basis of his landmark publication, Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War (1866). Despite decades of painstaking research by dedicated historians and Civil War buffs, a large number of the era's photographs remain unidentified, including this fine portrait of four officers in the field. What is known is that the two men in the center wear forage

Men of the 68th Regiment in ordinary dress, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John A. McClernand (right), and E. J. Allen (Allan Pinkerton, left), Chief of the Secret Service of the United States, at Secret Service Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near Antietam, Maryland October 3, 1862 Alexander Gardner American, Scottish. President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John A. McClernand (right), and E. J. Allen (Allan Pinkerton, left), Chief of the Secret Service of the United States, at Secret Service Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near Antietam, Maryland 286615

Bealeton, Virginia. Officer's mess. Company F, 93d New York Volunteers Headquarters, Army of the Potomac. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Warrenton, Virginia. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside and staff | Library of Congress

British Brigadier General Henry Frederick Lockyer (seated center, 97th Regiment of Foot, and Two Staff Members, Full-Length Portrait Wearing Uniforms in front of Building, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855

L'Entente Cordiale Made 1855 England. Salted paper print, plate 22 from the album Photographs Taken in the Crimea (1856) . Roger Fenton

Lieutenant Colonel James J. Smith and officers of 69th New York Infantry (Irish Brigade). Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Lieutenant-Colonel Welmet, Lieutenant-Colonel Bulwar, Captain Deedes, Lieutenant-Colonel Harkins, 97th Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Turner, R.A., and One Unidentfiied Man; India; 1858 - 1869; Albumen silver print

Co. - , 3d Connecticut Infantry, Camp Douglass, 1861. No. 4535, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Gen. Wilfred S. Hancock and Generals Francis C. Barlow, David B. Birney, John Gibbon 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

US Civil War, 1861-1865. Group of officers, soldiers, and African Americans gathered at a sutler's store. Sutlers were civilians who sold consumer items to soldiers under license from the army camp's commander. The stores sold canned goods, soft drinks, playing cards, and other luxuries at exorbitant prices. At far right, one man delivers a double nose thumbing in the direction of the cabin (BSLOC_2018_8_186)

Bealeton, Virginia. Company A, 93d New York Infantry. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

2d Rhode Island Infantry | Library of Congress

Company G. 114th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)

Instruction Detachment of the Kais.ottm. Masch. Techn. Teaching Company in Maltepe. (Small Asia.).

Major General Estcourt and Staff Made 1855 England. Salted paper print, plate 37 from the album Photographs Taken in the Crimea (1856) . Roger Fenton

A black and white Turkish officer of the XV. Ottoman corps in front of her tent, taken on August 15, 1916.

22d New York State Militia near Harpers Ferry, Va., 1861 i.e.1862 | Library of Congress

The United States, Russian, German, French, Australian and Italian Attaches, Cape Town, studying the Military Situation in S.A...

Old Ranger Exams: Compass Work. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Photographic print of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, Company B, at a military camp, Montauk Point, New York. Photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) an American female photographer and photojournalist. Dated 1898

Washington, District of Columbia. Company E, 9th U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861 | Library of Congress

Group, 7th NY Inf. 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Defense of Paris, 1870-1871. National Guard, 1870. Defense of Paris, 1870-1871. National Guard, 1870. Photography attributed to Andr�-Alphonse-Eugene Dissier (1819-1889). DISDIER (1819-1889). Draw on albuminum paper. Paris, Carnavalet Museum, Department of Photography.

Bvt. Brigadier General Wm. Coggswell and staff. No. B68, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Portrait of the centers of the city of Warsaw to Gorczaków, 1861; Beyer, Karol (Warsaw; photographic zak; 1845-1872); 1861 (1861-00-00-1861-00-00);Municipal delegation (Warsaw), Przewłocki, Janusz (1927-2007) - collection, collective portraits

Group of Officers, 1879, maker unknown.

Captain Portal, 4th Light Dragoons equipped for Balaklava, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

US Civil War. Wounded Union soldiers resting in Fredericksburg in May 1864. during the battles of The Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House, more than 26,000 casualties had passed through Fredericksburg, which became a 'city of hospitals'. Photo by Mathew Brady (BSLOC_2018_8_121)

Union saxhorn and drum musicians probably at Camp Griffin, Langley, Virginia. Photograph probably by G. H. Houghton, photographer of other photographs in this album and fellow resident of Mead's in Brattleboro, Vermont. Houghton worked as a photographer at Camp Griffin and in the Tidewater area of Virginia during the time that Larkin Goldsmith Mead spent there with the Army of the Potomac as an artist for Harper's Weekly and making topographical drawings for Brig. Gen. William F. Smith in 1861 and 1862, Title devised by Library staff, In album: Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead, page 67, Digitized, 2014. Funding from The Center for Civil War Photography, Accession box no. DLC/PP-1975:071. United States, Army, People, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, Military bands, Union, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, Musicians, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, Drums (Musical instruments), 1860-

Lt. McGrath, Adj. 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

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Apache Scouts at Fort Apache, ca. 1884-87, were photographed by Christian Barththelmess, during the Chiricahua Apache War, 1882-87. Apache Indian men hold rifles and a revolver and wear cartridge belts. The man seated in the center is 'Cut-Mouth', a first sergeant in the US Army, Company A (BSLOC_2019_9_154)

Washington, District of Columbia. Surgeons at Finlay Hospital. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

20th annual ball masquerade of Koltes Post No. 32 G.A.R., Feb. 9th, 1887. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , pp/liljvet. Grand Army of the Republic, Koltes Post No. 32 (New York, N.Y.), People, 1880-1890, United States, Army, People, 1880-1900, Veterans, Union, 1880-1890, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Veterans, Union.

British Captain John Drysdale, Full-length Portrait Holding Reins of Horse, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855

Warm Spring Indian Scouts in the fields. Photographic illustrations of the Pacific Coast, The Modoc War, no. 1629 1872. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Indians of North America , California, Rifles, Military scouts, Modoc Indians , Wars, 1873

Civil War veterans of the 40th New York Infantry Regiment and two women at reunion at Devil's Den in Gettysburg / W.H. Tipton photo, Gettysburg, Pa.. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , pp/liljvet. United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 40th (1861-1865), People, Veterans, Union, 1880-1890, Reunions, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, 1880-1890, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Veterans, Union.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863. President Lincoln is visible facing the crowd, not wearing a hat, to the left of the tall man wearing a top hat. Image is a detail of a photo showing the crowd at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg (BSLOC_2018_9_43)

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