Civil War Portraits

Historical portraits of Union officers and surgeons from the Civil War era, reflecting the attire and demeanor of military leaders from 1861-1865.

Assistant Adjunct General Temple Clark, Union officer, half-length portrait, facing right | Library of Congress
Assistant Adjunct General Temple Clark, Union officer, half-length portrait, facing right | Library of Congress
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George H. Thomas 1816 to 1870. Union general during American Civil War. From photograph by Matthew Brady
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US Civil War, Battle of Hampton Roads, on March 9, 1862. Confederate Commander Catesby ap R. Jones, commanded the CSS Virginia against USS Monitor on March 9, 1862. He was ironclad gunboat's Executive Officer, and became her Commanding Officer, when Captain Franklin Buchanan, was wounded on the March 8, 1862 (BSLOC_2018_8_29)
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Rear Adm. Francis H. Gregory. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Robert Cowdin , Military officers, Cowdin, Robert, 1805-1874, Carte de Visite Collection
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33d New York Infantry | Library of Congress
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Lieut. General Philip H. Sheridan, U.S.A. / Photo by Brady ; Engd. by J.C. Buttre.. No renewal in Copyright office. A41499 U.S. Copyright Office. Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888, Military service, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, People, UnifForms, 1860-1870.
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Col. Briggs , Military officers, Briggs, Henry S. Henry Shaw, 1824-1887, Carte de Visite Collection
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Confederate General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, Feb. 1862, in photograph made by Nathaniel Routzahn, in Winchester, Virginia. At the time, Jackson was commanding the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, engaging 52,000 Union soldiers, and preventing their participation in McClellan Peninsula Campaign against Richmond (BSLOC_2018_8_134)
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D.L. Clinch. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Sill, Joshua Woodrow .
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Lieut. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, U.S.A. / Photo by Brady ; Engd. by J.C. Buttre. | Library of Congress
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Bv't. Brigadier General O.C. Risdon. Civil War Photograph Collection, No. 5877. Risdon, Orlando Charles, Military service, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.
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Lieutenant Colonel A.B. Elder, 10th New York Inf.. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Title from Civil War caption books. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Commodore C.H. Bell. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Title from Civil War caption books. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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James Ewell Brown Stuart, aka Jeb Stuart,1833-1864. American Major General in the Confederate army during the American Civil War
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Powell, Adm. Levin M. U.S.N.
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Col. Brown, U.S.A.
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Major General Philip Sheridan led the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in 1864-65. In late summer of 1864 his cavalry carried out a scorched earth campaign in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, destroying crops, animals, barns, and transport (BSLOC_2018_9_205)
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Julius White. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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General Richard S Ewell - USA Civil War
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EL GENERAL DON DOMINGO DULCE - GRABADO S XIX. Location: MUSEO DEL ROMANTICISMO-GRABADOS. MADRID. SPAIN. DULCE Y GARAY DOMINGO.
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Chas. H. Davis, Rear Admiral, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left. Civil War Photograph Collection, No. 5545. Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877, Military service, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.
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Confederate General George Pickett, fought throughout the US Civil War. Immediately after the war he went to Canada, but returned to Virginia the following year. His young third wife, La Salle Corbell Pickett, was widowed when Pickett died in 1875. She promoted him as a 'Lost Cause' hero, in her lectures and two books, 'Pickett and His Men,' and 'The Heart of a Soldier', 1913 (BSLOC_2018_9_23)
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Sgt. Boston Corbett. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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General George B. McClellan. Major General commanding U.S. Army. colored engraving ca. 1862.
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Edmund Kirby Smith, Confederate general, 1862-1867.Artist: J Rogers
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Adm. Sir W.A.D. Acland
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Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863) American Soldier Stock Montage, Inc.
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Major General Quincy Adams Gillmore was a Union Army engineer and artillery specialist during the US Civil War. He commanded the artillery that forced the surrender of Confederate Fort Pulaski, April 11, 1862. He led the land forces during the Charleston campaign of 1863, including two disastrous assaults on Fort Wagner. He engineered the Swamp Angel Battery, from which the Union shelled downtown Charleston and its civilian population (BSLOC_2018_8_95)
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Major General John Pope, USA army, circa 1863
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SAMUEL FRANCIS DUPONT U.S. military Date: 1803 - 1865
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Henry Warner Slocum, Union general, 1862-1867.Artist: J Rogers
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DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT American naval commander with his autograph Date: 1801 - 1870
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1800S 1860S Portrait Commander Silas Stringham United States Navy Served In Navy From War Of 1812 Through American Civil War
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Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Rear Adm. John A. Dahlgren standing by a Dahlgren gun on deck of U.S.S. PAWNEE. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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The late Brigadier-General Daniel M'Cook / photographed by Hoag & Quick, Cincinnati, O.. Illus. in : Harper's weekly, 1864. McCook, Daniel, 1834-1864, Military service, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.
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Gen. A.L. Mills
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Captain Maluski, 58th New York Inf.. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Wm. H. Lambert, Captain 33rd N.J. Inf., U.S.A.. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Title from Civil War caption books. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A.. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Title from Civil War caption books, Corresponding print is in LOT 4213. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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1800S 1860S Portrait Of General Henry Wager Halleck Union General American Civil War
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George Wallace Melville (1841 - 1912) was a United States Navy officer, engineer and Arctic explorer. The Jeannette expedition of 1879-1881, Journal of Captain George Washington De Long 1879-1881. Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1906
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Maj. D.B. Bridgford. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Title from Civil War caption books. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Ulysses S. Grant 1822-1885. Commmander of Union armies in American Civil War and 18th President of United States 1869-77. From painting by Alonzo Chappel
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The leader and his battles - Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant-General, U.S.A.. 737 U.S. Copyright Office, Title from item, Inscribed in ink: Deposited Aug. 9, 1866 737, Inscribed in pencil: 32092, Blind stamp: Deposited in the U.S. District Clerk's Office Southern District of New York, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by Haasis & Lubrecht, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. Grant, Ulysses S, (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns & battles.
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Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William H. Luse, 18th Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A.. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. Confederate States of America, Army, Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 18th, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Luse, William H, Mississippi troops , 18th Mississippi Infantry
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Digitally restored vector painting of Union Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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Sec. of War Simon Cameron. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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1860S Portrait Captain John A Winslow June 19 1864 Aboard The Uss Kearsarge Battle Of Cherbourg Sank Csa Confederate Ship Alabama
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Lieutenant Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894), British explorer in Central Africa. Journey across Africa, from Zanzibar to Benguela
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William Hall V.C. on canadian postage stamp. First black person to receive the Victoria cross.