Civil War Military Life

Historical photographs representing Civil War soldiers, camps, and gatherings, showcasing the daily life and organization of troops during the 1860s.

2d Rhode Island Infantry | Library of Congress

2d Rhode Island Infantry | Library of Congress

Major General B. F. Butler and staff | Library of Congress

Signal Corps Detachment, Elk Mountain, Md., October 1862. No. 4483, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Maryland, Antietam.

Photograph by Otto Schmidt showing Mistg'stätt'n (Kummerhof) in Vienna, printed on albumin paper in cabinet format around 1878.

A Camp in a Pleasant Grove. Army of the Potomac. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

City Point, Virginia. Soldiers winter quarters. Inside first line of fortifications. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Micihigan() Camp nr. Washington 1861. Attributed to Mathew B. Brady (American, about 1823 - 1896)

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861. No. B938, Title from item, Mounted with five 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.)

General U. S. Grant and staff, City Point, Virginia, summer of 1864. No. B26, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Hopewell.

Bvt. Maj. General Adelbert Ames and staff, Army of the James, Nov. 1864. No. B73, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Camp life, Army of the Potomac. Taking it easy. War views. 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

23d New York Infantry. No. B1037, Title from item, Mounted with five other photographs, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 23rd (1861-1863) , United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

What Do I Want, John Henry Made 1862 United States. At the start of the Civil War, Alexander Gardner was granted unlimited access to photograph the Union troops. The images Gardner produced over the next four yearsódocumenting the aftermath of battles and the life of soldiers in campówere seen primarily in exhibitions and circulated in smaller form as cartes de visite. He published Gardnerís Photographic Sketch Book of the War in 1865, at the warís end. With two volumes of 50 albumen prints each, the album retailed for $150óthe equivalent of several months of an average workerís wagesómaking it a luxury item. According to the photographer, ìWhat do I want, John Henry î was a question this Union captain frequently asked his servant (ex-slaves most often served the Northern army as cooks and laborers). On the page accompanying this photograph, Gardner patronizingly described John Henry as an ìaffectionate creatureî of ìuntutored nature,î who was grateful for his newfound freedom at the w

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

Group at Headquarters Army of Potomac, Warrenton, Virginia, November 1862. No. 5085, Title from item, Caption continues: Major N.H. Davis, Gen. J. Buford, Col. D.B. Sasket i.e. Sackett, Col. G.D. Ruggles, Col. H.F. Clark, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Warrenton.

Culpeper, Virginia (vicinity). Generals, Gershom Mott, John H.H. Ward and Colonels, Austin, William Brewster and John E. Farnum. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Group of people in a courtyard between barracks, Mexico, Anonymous, 1861 - 1870 stereograph Mexico cardboard. paper albumen print barracks. courtyard Mexico

Regiments - unidentified 1861-65 Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady American. Regiments - unidentified 267964

Officers of 93d New York Infantry, Bealton, Virginia, August, 1863. No. 505, Title from item, Photographer information 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, Bealton.

Wilcox sic and Staff. Mathew B. Brady (American, about 1823 - 1896)

US Civil War, Peninsula Campaign, Seven Days Battles, June 25-July 1, 1862. Wounded soldiers on railroad cars at Savage's Station, Virginia. They are possibly from the Battle of Gaines' Mill of June 27. Photo by Edward Anthony (BSLOC_2018_7_123)

Group at Secret Service Department, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October 1862 1862 Alexander Gardner American, Scottish. Group at Secret Service Department, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October 1862 259610

British Colonel Studholme Brownrigg with two Captured Russian Boys, Portrait at Entrance to Tent, Crimean War, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855

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

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Servants of officers of staff. (The "Beef-killers" of the army) Camp Winfield Scott. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

2d Rhode Island Infantry. No. 1057, 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.

Officers relaxing outside a tent. No. 303, Title devised by library staff. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Camp scene: men with guns in front of tent, Lake George, New York. L.H. Fillmore (American, active 1870s)

Quarters of Chief Ambulance Officer, 9th Corps in front of Petersburg, Va. | Library of Congress

Harrison's Landing, Virginia Colonel Albert V. Colburn, Colonel Delos B. Sacket, and General John Sedgwick. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Peninsular Campaign, Va, 1862, Colburn, Albert V, Sacket, Delos B, Sedgwick, John, United States, Virginia, Harrison's Landing.

Crawford and Staff. Mathew B. Brady (American, about 1823 - 1896)

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

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861. No. B924, 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.)

33d New York Infantry. No. B958, Title from item, Mounted with four other photographs, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1861-1863) , United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Officers and non-commissioned officers of Co. J(), 93d New York Inf'y., Bealton i.e., Bealeton, Virginia. Civil War Photograph Collection, No. 511, LC-B817-7511 broken. Military officers, Union, Virginia, 1860-1870, Infantry, Union, Virginia, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

General J.J. Peck & staff. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Title from Civil War caption books. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

General George G. Meade and staff, Culpeper, Virginia Sept. 1863 , Culpeper, Virginia, Sept. 1863. General George G. Meade and staff at Wallack's house. No. 98, 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, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Culpeper.

Non-commissioned Officers' Mess, Co. "D," 93d New York Infantry. This view taken at Bealton, Va., in August, 1863....

Officers and non-commissioned officers of Co. J(), 93d N.Y. Inf'y., Bealton i.e., Bealeton, Va. | Library of Congress

Michigan and Penn. Relief Association, at White House, Va. The gentle misses ministering to the soldiers. 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

Reverend Mr. Butler & officers of the 47th Regiment, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Group. T. Anderson, Esq. Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher, Lieutenant Colonel Neville, Major A.J. Pearson, Prince de Joinville, Comte de Paris, General Stewart Van Vliet, G. Sheffield, S.L. Arny, Duc de Chartres. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Hodson's Horse.

Lincoln at Antiem

Hepworths tent, Trenton Camp Ground. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Trenton Falls (N.Y.), Waterfalls , New York (State)

Workers, men in uniform and some well -dressed men in the dunes near the North Sea Canal, near IJmuiden, c. 1885 - c. 1900 photograph Workers, men in (police) Uniform and some well -dressed men in the dunes near the North Sea Canal, near IJmuiden, the Netherlands. North Sea Canal France paper. photographic support albumen print

Surgeon John H. Brinton and group of hospital attendants in front of Petersburg, Virginia, October, 1864 , Petersburg, Virginia, Oct. 1864. Surg. Jeremiah Barnard (medical purveyor), Brinton and group of hospital attendants. No. 564, Title from item, Alternate title 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, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Petersburg.

Painting the Racławice Panorama: Tadeusz Popiel andLudwig Boller on so-called artificial ground with the part of the canvas showing the cross at the crossroads in Dziemierzyce. Hamel i Feigl (Lwów ; skład materiałów fotograficznych ; 1892-ca 1905), merchant employer, unknown, photographer

Alexander Gardner, Civil War Scene: five soldiers sitting among tents, c. 1860-65, albumen print from glass negative.

Artillery soldiers firing cannon at battlefield in Flanders during the First World War, Belgium, Europe

Views at Belle Plain Landing, Va., May, 1864 | Library of Congress

Officers of the 4th Light Dragoons.. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

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

Washington, District of Columbia (vicinity). General Bryon R. Pierce and staff. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Union scouts and guides of the Union Army of the Potomac, at winter quarters, Brandy Station, March 1864. These men were part of the Bureau of Military Intelligence, headed by Gen. George Sharpe. The men wear a variety of clothing to fade in with the general population as they gather military information (BSLOC_2019_2_149)

Officers of U.S. horse artillery brigade, near Culpeper, Va., September, 1863 | Library of Congress

Group Portrait: (L-R)Col.Yule P.W.D., Major Jones A.D.C., Mr. Walters, Captain Stanley A.D.C., Captain Baring A.D.C., Captain Roberts V.C.D.A.Q.M.G., Captain Hills V.C. A.D.C. and Sir E. Campbell Bart. Mry. Secry. 1858-61 Unknown. Group Portrait: (L-R)Col.Yule P.W.D., Major Jones A.D.C., Mr. Walters, Captain Stanley A.D.C., Captain Baring A.D.C., Captain Roberts V.C.D.A.Q.M.G., Captain Hills V.C. A.D.C. and Sir E. Campbell Bart. Mry. Secry. 287667

Col. Doherty, Officers and Men. 13th Light Dragoons.. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

23d New York Infantry. No. B886, Title from item, Mounted with five other photographs, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 23rd (1861-1863) , United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Emperor Maximilian's Firing Squad 1867 François Aubert French Legend maintains that Maximilan paid each of the seven executors shown here one ounce of gold not to shoot him in the head; he wanted, the story asserts, his mother to see his face one last time when he was in his coffin. The French painter Edouard Manet turned his eye to the events of June 19, 1867, in his large oil Execution of the Emperor Maximilian (1867), now in the collection of the Kunsthalle in Mannheim, Germany.. Emperor Maximilian's Firing Squad 286895

Col. George H. Chapman (3rd Indiana Cavalry) & staff at his headquarters. Army of the Potomac | Library of Congress

Harrison's Landing, Virginia Group of the Irish Brigade. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Peninsular Campaign, Va, 1862, United States, Virginia, Harrison's Landing.

Men of the 77th Regiment in winter costume, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

Union soldiers, in camp, posed in front of log buildings. Title devised by Library staff, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Buzenval / Purkey Post in the castle. Purketing Position in Buzenval Castle, Rueil-Malmaison. The municipality of Paris. Purketing Position in Buzenval Castle. Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine). Photograph of Hippolyte Blancard (1843-1924). Platinum circulation (front). 1870-1871.

British soldiers fill their field menage with beer in Slingers Fontein, Underwood and Underwood, 1900 stereograph South Africa photographic support. cardboard albumen print canteen ~ the soldier off duty. the soldier; the soldier's life South Africa

Group at Headquarters, Army of Potomac, October 1862. No. 5086, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Historical Monuments - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

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

Sir Jas. York Scarlett (1799-1880), General, led Charge of Heavy Brigade, Balaclava (left); Edward Wm. Lowe (1820-1880), General (right); Taken at the Crimea. Roger Fenton; English, 1819-1869. Date: 1855. Dimensions: 19.6 × 16.4 cm (image/paper); 27.6 × 22.2 cm (mount). Thinly albumenized print. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Petersburg, Virginia. Surgeons of 10th Army Corps. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Major General Estcourt, Adj.-Gen. Major De Morel, Captain Thompson, Lieutenant-Colonel Blane, Major Kirkland, Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable W.L. Pakenham, officers of his staff, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

On board the Colorado. C.W. Woodward (American, 1836 - 1894, active Rochester, New York)

Maryland. John C. Babcock, a Secret Service man and Gimlet, a celebrated war horse of the Rappahannock | Library of Congress

Officers, 71st Regiment, New York Infantry; Mathew B. Brady (American, about 1823 - 1896); 1861; Albumen silver print

2d Rhode Island Infantry | Library of Congress

Petersburg, Virginia Military telegraph operators at headquarters; another group. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Communications, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865, Telegraph, United States, Virginia, Petersburg.

Confederate camp, Warrington Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, 1861. Title from item, Original salted paper print in PH-Edwards (J.) no. 1 (A size), Photograph published in: The Image of War 1861-1865, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1981, vol. 1, pg. 361. Military life, Confederate, Florida, Pensacola, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Confederate, Florida, Pensacola, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Florida, Pensacola.

Telegraph construction camp during American Civil War (1861-1865), Photograph taken in the field

Non-commissioned officers, 19th Iowa Infantry, exchanged prisoners from Camp Ford, Texas. Photographed at New Orleans on their arrival. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Official car. Military review at the Hippodrome de Longchamp, Paris (16th arr.), Or de Vincennes, Val-de-Marne ". Photo club de Paris. Aristotype. Between 1903- and 1905. Paris, Musée Carnavalet. Paris, Musée Carnavalet. 100468-11 Military review

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

Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry, African-Americans

Little "War Eagle". The pride of the tribe. 1895. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Indians of North America, Boys, Warriors

All the live stock left on Mr. Gill's plantation after the battle of Gettysburg. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . African Americans, War, 1860-1870, Mules, 1860-1870, Dogs, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

US Civil War, August 1864. Officers of 114th Pennsylvania Infantry play cards at the battlefront of Petersburg, Virginia, August, 1864. Two African American camp servants stand by with more wine served on a platter (BSLOC_2018_8_183)

Camp de Chlons: The Zouave storyteller. Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820 - 1884)

President Lincoln, United States Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, near Antietam; Alexander Gardner, American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882; October 4, 1862; Albumen silver print; Image: 21.9 x 19.7 cm (8 5/8 x 7 3/4 in.)

Scene in the Fortifications at Camp Essex, Maryland 1861 Unknown. Scene in the Fortifications at Camp Essex, Maryland 302363

New York, Underwood and Underwood, Colesberg, New Year's Day at Colesberg, SA - Reading the list of dead and wounded comrades the day before, Het lezen van de doodlijst op Nieuwe Nieuwesdag in Colesberg, New York (city), verso - printed, stereograph, stereophoto, photographs, Works and Studios ~, Arlington, NJ Littleton, NH Washington, DC, recto - printed, 34, Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood., height 88 mm, width 178 mm, photographer, 1900 - 1900, cardboard, photographic paper, photo paper, albumen print, albumine print, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Powerful performance. Surabaya 21-7-1947 / 22-7-1947. POLTATIONAL ACCOUNT. Surabaya. Siem van Weeren, pearl worker from Leiden, show Sengers, factory worker from Eindhoven, Jantje van Gijzel, Electrician from Gouda. July 21, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya

Headquarters Army of Potomac - Brandy Station, April 1864. Commissary storehouse. No. 4195, Title from item, Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, c1866, v. II, pl. 61, Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 4, p. 49", Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Brandy Station.

Avantgarde in the hollow away. Collection of Juhl

2d Rhode Island Infantry | Library of Congress

Group portrait of military students. Unknown maker, British

Fauquier Sulphur Springs, Virginia. Officers of the 60th New York Volunteers. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

US Civil War. Second Battle of Fredericksburg, (Second Battle of Marye's Heights), May 3, 1863, was part of the Union's Chancellorsville Campaign. Commanded by Gen. Joseph Hooker. Union Battery D, 5th US Artillery, goes into action on south side of Rappahannock River below Fredericksburg, June 4, 1863. Photo by Timothy O'Sullivan (BSLOC_2018_8_118)

Major Hallewell & Captain Pearson, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

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

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

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