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Group portraits of Civil War soldiers and officers, capturing a range of emotions and camaraderie in historical military attire.

Brigadier General Van Valkenburgh and staff officers / W.J. Moulton, photographer ; re-touched by G.W. Waters.. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , pp/liljpaper. Van Valkenburgh, R. B, (Robert Bruce), 1821-1888, Smith, Gabriel L, 1824-1906, Graves, Edward P, 1840-1901, United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 107th (1862-1865), People, Soldiers, Union, 1860-1870, Military uniforms, Union, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

Group portrait of sitting soldiers drinking wine. .

US Civil War. Officers of the CSS Sumter, a Confederate blockade runner and commerce raider. In April 1862, when the CSS Sumter was laid up at Gibraltar, this crew was reassigned to a new commerce raider, CSS Alabama. Seated, L to R: 2nd Lt. William E. Evans; Commander Raphael Semmes; 1st Asst. Engineer Miles J. Freeman. Standing, L to R: Surgeon Francis L. Galt; Lt. John M. Stribling; 1st Lt. John M. Kell, Exe. Officer; Lt Robert T. Chapman; and 1st Lt. Becket K. Howell, USMC (BSLOC_2018_8_52)

General George B. McClellan with staff & dignitaries (including): Gen. George W. Morell, Lt. Col. A.V. Colburn, Gen. McClellan, Lt. Col. N.B. Sweitzer, Prince de Joinville (son of King Louis Philippe of France), and the Count de Paris. Autumn 1861. George Brinton McClellan (1826 - 1885) was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician. A graduate of West Point, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican War (1846-1848), and later left the Army to work in railroads until the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-1865).

Generals of the Cavalry Corps.. Title from item, Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 4, p. 260", Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Brigadier General Gustavus A. DeRussy and Staff on Steps of Arlington House, Arlington, Virginia May 1864 Alexander Gardner American, Scottish Gardner was an expert in the new wet-collodion-on-glass-plate photographic process and was manager of Mathew B. Brady's Washington, D.C., portrait studio. He split with Brady in November 1862 and formed his own company, taking with him many of Brady's best photographers. Gardner and his corps, like Brady's, produced a vast photographic documentation of the Civil War.Here, Union soldiers pose for the camera in deliberately casual attitudes on the front steps of the Confederate commander Robert E. Lee's mansion, which was confiscated by the government in 1861. Laying blame-literally at Lee's doorstep-for the vast suffering of the Civil War, the Union Army in 1864 began to bury its dead on Lee's property in what later became Arlington National Cemetery.. Brigadier General Gustavus A. DeRussy and Staff on Steps of Arlington House, Arlington, Virgini

Lieut. Gen'l. Grant and staff. Title from item. Grant, Ulysses S, (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Group portrait of four members of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles on active service in South Africa., 1900-1901, Pretoria, by Robinson Christian Englestoft Nissen.

Group picture Team of the Nordpol Expedition of the "Admiral Tegettthoff".

Brigadier General Van Valkenburgh and staff officers / W.J. Moulton, photographer ; re-touched by G.W. Waters.. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , pp/liljpaper. Van Valkenburgh, R. B, (Robert Bruce), 1821-1888, Smith, Gabriel L, 1824-1906, Graves, Edward P, 1840-1901, United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 107th (1862-1865), People, Soldiers, Union, 1860-1870, Military uniforms, Union, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

Group of Russian sailors from the navy ship Variag during visit to New York City. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Title devised by Library staff based on information from Steve Rogers and Michael Neubert, 2011. (Title in Civil War caption books misidentified the sailors as U.S. Navy.). United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Portrait of five unknown men in uniform. .

Our Peace Commissioners for 1865: Sheridan, Grant, Sherman, Porter, Lincoln, Farragut, and Thomas. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . Grant, Ulysses S, (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Woodall, Waller, Fleury, Talbot, Miller, circa 1895, maker unknown.

Henry Morton Stanley geb 28. Januar 1841 als John Rowlands in Denbigh, Wales, gest, 10. Mai 1904 in London, britisch-amerikanischer Journalist, Afrikaforscher und Buchautor im Foto der Teilnehmer der Rettungsexpedition, 1890, von links: Dr. Barke, Nelson, Stanley, Stairs, Mounteney Jephson, Historisch, authentisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated 1f-4904170

HOMENAJE A MANUEL CURROS ENRIQUEZ- LA CORUÑA- 21/23 OCTUBRE 1904- DE IZQUIERDA A DERECHA DE PIE: UXIÓ CARRÉ ALDAO, FLORENCIO VAAMONTE LORES, FRANCISCO. Author: AVRILLON. CURROS ENRIQUEZ MANUEL. MURGUIA MANUEL. CARRE ALDAO UXIO. VAAMONDE LORES FLORENCIO. TETTAMANCY GASTON FRANCISCO. RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ ELADIO. OGEA OTERO JOSE. MARTINEZ SALAZAR A.

Sherman and His Generals; George N. Barnard (American, 1819 - 1902); New York, United States; negative about 1865; print 1866; Albumen silver print

Staff at the State Railways, SJ in Söderhamn.

Gen. Heintzelman and staff, Harrisons Landing | Library of Congress

Medal of honor men Have received medals of honor in United States Army and Navy.. Daniel Murray collection , Exhibited: American Treasures, Library of Congress, 2005-06. United States, Army, People, 1860-1900, United States, Navy, People, 1860-1900, Exposition universelle, (1900 :, Paris, France), Exhibitions & displays, Medal of Honor, People, 1860-1900, African Americans, Military service, 1860-1900, Military decorations, United States, 1860-1900, Military personnel, 1860-1900, Spanish-American War, 1898, Military personnel, American, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

The PRÜessian embassy. Embassy at Oscar II's throne climb.

5 firemen in uniform , Fire stations, Fire fighters, Firefighting equipment. Photographs of Hopkinton Places and People

General Irvin McDowell and staff, Arlington House, 1862. Title from item, Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C, 2009. McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885, Staff, Military officers, Union, Virginia, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

2d Rhode Island Infantry | Library of Congress

Military commission that tried and convicted the Lincoln conspirators, 1865. Standing, L to R: Brig. Gen. Thomas Harris, Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace, Maj. Gen. August Kautz, and Henry Burnett. Seated, L to R: Lt. Col. David Clendenin, Col. C.H. Tompkins, Brig. Gen. Albion Howe, Brig. Gen. James Ekin, Maj. Gen. David Hunter, Brig. Gen. Robert Foster, John Bingham, and Brig. Gen. Joseph Holt (BSLOC_2019_5_84)

World War I - Five surviving officers of the French battleship Bouvet sinking near gallipoli 1915. In World War I, she escorted troop convoys from North Africa to France. She then joined the naval operations off the Dardanelles, where she participated in a major attack on the Turkish fortresses in the straits on 18 March 1915. During the attack, she struck a mine and sank within two minutes; only some 50 men were rescued from a complement of 710.

Lieutenant General Sir Harry Jones & Staff, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Roger Fenton historic war campaign photo

Seven portraits of army commanders, Otto van Bosch, c. 1885 - in or before 1890 photomechanical print France paper commander-in-chief, general, marshal. ranks in the army

Officers of Heavy Artillery, Company B, Fort Warren. James Wallace Black (American, 1825 - 1896)

Six officers and a dog posing at a bench. Six officers and a dog posing at a bench.

Group of Officers of 14th regiment., circa 1880, maker unknown.

Military group portrait. Possibly F. C. Gould, photographer (British, active 1860s - 1890s) Possibly Charles Parker, photographer (British, active 1860s) about 1864 Group portrait of eleven Caucasian men. Two of them are in civilian clothes, while the other nine men are dressed in military uniform and wear kepi-style hats, bearing individually different number insignia above the visor.

Major General J.A. Mower and staff. Civil War Photograph Collection, No. 4047. Mower, J. A, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel.

General Lee surrenders to General Grant at Appomattox Court House.

The board of Arti et Amicitiae in 1865: v.l.n.r. L. Lingeman, S. Altman, Charles Rochussen, P.F. Greive and Cornelis Springer. The board of Arti et Amicitiae in 1865: v.l.n.r. L. Lingeman (Treasurer), S. Altman (vice-chairman) Charles Rochussen (chairman), p.f. Greive (vice-secretary) and Cornelis Springer (secretary).

Group portrait of 14 officers (including J.W. Binkes) of the ship Het Metal Kruis, in Gempt & Van Moorsel, 1864 photograph Group portrait of the fourteen naval officers (including J.W. Binkes) of the ship the Metal Cross, which participated in the bombing in the Strait of Shimonoseki in 1864. Amsterdam paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print seaman Japan

Garde Nationale, 8e Regt. de Marche, L'-Colonel: De Narcillac. André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, 1819 - 1889)

Three Military Officers, circa 1880, maker unknown.

Captain Dawson, Captain Daubery and Lt. Haines, 1868, circa 1890, New Zealand, maker unknown.

James River, Virginia. Group of officers on deck of the MONITOR. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

D. Sickles & staff. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

The picture represents a group frame of sub-officers from the hunter fashion.

H.T. Loomis, W.K. Neal, W.G.M. i.e. W.J.M. Thompson, W.T. Coombs, J.B. Abbott, A.O. Stoddard, J.B. Brown, Henry Brown, G.B. Randlette. Group of USSC personnel, five standing, four seated.. 1861 - 1872. Photographs. Manuscripts and Archives Division. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Union Cavalry leaders & raiders: Averill, Kilpatrick, Kautz, Gregg, Sheridan, Custer, Streight, Grierson, Wilson, Stoneman, Merritt, and Torbert. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Army of the West: Schofield, Thomas, Slocum, McPherson, Sherman, Howard, and Rousseau. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

The staff of the French embassy.

Staff. Personnel rear row from left: tlt w von hülpershausen sts o j ortman sts a g Löwenhjelm tlt b Christoffersson sts n a w Hammarsköld sts k a backlund sts a k nettelbladt sts o v eckman tlt c tottie front line from left: Stf a r Blidberg sts o e Billberg

Group portrait of five native officers, India. Unknown maker

Members of the Techn Acad, Corps Cimbria at the Macart Festival August Raffelsberger -, photographer

Major General Estcourt and Staff. Roger Fenton; English, 1819-1869. Date: 1855. Dimensions: 17.4 × 16.6 cm (image/paper); 58.9 × 42.5 cm (mount). Salted paper print, plate 37 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856). Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Dignitaries pose in front of mock-up of cornerstone for the McKim Building, assembled at the Milford Quarry , Granite quarrying, Public libraries, Cornerstones, Government officials, Boston Public Library, Prince, Frederick O. Frederick Octavius, 1818-1899, Pierce, Phineas

Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry. Caption book information: Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry, Arlington, VA, November 1865. Photo by William M. Smith, Pencilled on verso: "Ft. Corcoran", No. 861, Civil War Photograph Collection , Corresponding glass negative: LC-B817- 786. African Americans, Military service, 1860-1870, Military bands, 1860-1870, Infantry, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Songs & music, Union, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Union, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, African Americansl, Union.

Second Boer War. The boer generals of the Koos de la Rey, Christiaan Rudolf de Wet and Louis Botha in Paris during his visit to Europe to seek funds for their cause, months after the Treaty of Vereeniging which ended the war. October 18, 1902. Engraving.

Officers of the Imperial Guard, Russia, photograph by Hejk, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXII, No 51, December 17, 1905.

Copy of a portrait of two French soldiers and a woman studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Military Officers, circa 1880, maker unknown.

Admiral Dewey and officers of the navy, at New Year reception, 1902. White House, Washington , Military parades & ceremonies, Military officers, Dewey, George, 1837-1917

The picture is a group court with German combat pilots.The man in the center is Manfred von Richthofen .. The picture is a group court with German combat pilots.The man in the center is Manfred von Richthofen.

Corp. T. Hawton, Co. I. and group 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

The Standard Bearer and Guards of the First Battalion of the First Albanian Regiment of the Imperial Guard / Abdullah Frères, Phot, Constantinople

Service at the field maneuver in Hessleholm September 1899.Sit from Stins Floby, Sandler, Zandén Nilsson, Fsts Lundgren. Standing from Stins Cederström, STS Walden, Englund, Cederberg, Öhrstrand, Vestman, Pedersén, Bergvall, Liljedal, Fsts Camitz, Tliö Davidson (civil) eg. Ravn, fsts. Graveleij, Tlt Skarstedt.

American civil war, us civil war, Charleston harbor, fort sumter, fort Moultrie, map civil war, map fort sumter, map fort Moultrie, 1861, 1860s, 1800s, 19th century, 1776, 1770s, 1700s, 18th century, us patriots, thirteen colonies, 13 colonies, American revolution, us revolution, british vs America, new world, England vs colonies

Crew of U.S. Steamsloop 'Colorado' (Harper's Weekly, Vol. V). Artist: Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836-1910 Prouts Neck, Maine). Dimensions: image: 9 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (23.5 x 34.9 cm)sheet: 10 13/16 x 16 in. (27.5 x 40.7 cm). Publisher: Harper's Weekly (American, 1857-1916). Date: July 13, 1861. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Frakt Godsersonal.

France, 1854-1870 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

Photograph of three generations with grandsons in army uniform of the Cree First Nations Canadians

Front row 2nd left to 2nd right: Sergeant Machray, Captain and Adjutant the Honourable M.C.A. Drummond, Sergeant Major Anderson, Corporal Findlay. Before 28 March 2006, the Black Watch was an infantry regiment. The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) from 1931 to 2006, and The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) from 1881 to 1931. Part of the Scottish Division, it was the senior regiment of Highlanders. Since 2006 The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS) has been an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

View of the dining room with soldiers in the care home Bronbeek, Brainich & Leusink, c. 1880 - c. 1900 cabinet photograph Bronbeek photographic support. cardboard albumen print the soldier off duty. dining-room Bronbeek

King William I shows two men the road, 1829; 4th. Rencontre; Les Rencontres; Encounters with King Willem I, 1829-1830. The king points two men on the street. With a four-line caption. Part of the series of 24 plates with encounters with King Willem I, appeared under the title 'Les Rencontres' in 1829-1830.

Albert Edward and Colonel Bruce and F W Gibbs Charles Tarver, India, Asia Copyright: xKenxGraham/DinodiaxPhotox

Group portrait of the trade union of Military Musici, Breda, 1917, 1917 photograph Group portrait in (church-) Interior on the occasion of the establishment of the trade union of military musicians, Breda, 1917. The men are pose in uniforms at tables for the photo taken from above. photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print

Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), says Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, with five men, on the island of St. Hélène. Vallette, Jules Lucien Ferdinand. Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), says Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, with five men, on the island of St. Hélène. Business card (front). Draw on albuminum paper. 1860-1890.

Portrait of Georges Boulanger in the middle of French soldiers, Anonymous, 1888 photograph This photo is part of an album. France paper commander-in-chief, general, marshal. historical persons France

James Burns, Captain 23rd Ill. Vols ; Patrick S. Carey, proprietor of the City Mansion Hotel which the Amrican Fenians principally resorted ; Thoams Copeland ; Thomas M. Holden, Recruiting Agent for the American Service.. 1866. Larcom, Thomas A. (Thomas Aiskew) (1801-1879). Photographs, Portraits. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Prisoners, Ireland , History , 1837-1901, Mountjoy Prison, Fenian Brotherhood

Three unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms with shoulder scales and cap boxes holding muskets with attached Enfield sword bayonets and scabbards. 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, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

View of the dining room with soldiers in the Nursing House Bronbeek; Bronbeek. - Dining room men. .

Portraits of Captain HF Turner and Sergeant Samuel Austin of the 65th Regiment

Army of Potomac: J.C. Parke, C.G. Meade, W.S. Hancock, G.K. Warren, U.S. Grant, A.A. Humphrey, and H.C. Wright. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . Grant, Ulysses S, (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Stine expedition with staff, Stockholm C.

Italian prisoner Trento.

Famous Union commanders of the Civil War; 1861-'65 Head-and-shoulders portrait of eighteen Union generals and two Union admirals; identified below image

Assembly of three portraits of soldiers who died at the Battle of Königgrätz and the Austrian eagle with Lauweren, Henrik Bayer, 1866 - 1875 Photograph. visit card This photo is part of an album. Pécs photographic support. cardboard albumen print historical persons. (military) uniforms

'L'effort Canadien; Types de volontaires canadiens arrivant en Angleterre', 1914. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

Anonymous, Ernest Psichari. Beauvais 1904. Military Service (Username), 1904. Old N&B draw laminated on cardboard. Museum of Romantic Life.

The Standard Bearer of the First Battalion of the First Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Guard / Abdullah Frères, Phot, Constantinople

First Officers, Leominster Lodge, #1237, B.P.O. Elks , Fraternal organizations, Elks Fraternal order. Leominster

Queen Draga, King Alexander I of Serbia and their military guard, Belgrade, Serbia, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXX, No 26, June 28, 1903.

James River, Virginia Officers of the U.S.S. Monitor grouped by the turret. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation, Government vessels, Union, United States, Virginia, James River.

President Lincoln at Genl. Grant's Headquarters, at City Point, Virginia, March 1865, Lithograph, Currier & Ives

Students, private school Füyuzat-i Hamidiye / Abdullah Frères, photographes de SMI le Sultan

Fotogalvanography by Paul Pretsch from 1857 showing Coldstream Guards privates in the Crimean trenches and battlefields, highlighting uniforms, equipment, and formations.

Captured French Algerian soldiers during the First World War, in captivity in Gottingen, Germany in 1915 Date: 1915

Gen. Alfaro Obregon & staff of Yaquis

Portraits of James Henry, late of the 18th Regiment, Captain G Mair and Captain AC Turner black-and-white negatives, copy

Sir Henry Harness. Colonel Yule. B.E.. Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)

Protect in the neighborhoodMeissen. Protect in the neighborhood

Captain and Lt. Glover killed at Gate Pa, circa 1890, maker unknown.

Photograph of the New York Police Department Commissioners of 1860. Dated 1860

11/30/1911. Melilla Bell. - group of Chiefs and Officers who are currently injured in Melilla. Number 1. Lieutenant Soco; 2, Commander Sánchez Serrano; 3, Commander Iron; 4, Lieutenant López Pita; 5, Doctor D. Fernando Guerrero.

Revolution of September 4th. - SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, AT THE HOTEL OF VILLE. (IT)

Group of Rhode Island Soldiers. Company C, 1861 ca. April-August, drawing, 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches, America, US

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