This photograph shows Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside reading a newspaper, with Mathew B. Brady at Army of the Potomac headquarters. This photograph was made at 9th Corps headquarters, Cold Harbor, Virginia. Photograph from the main eastern theater of the…
A portrait of Whitelaw Reid, who was a reporter during the Civil War, and later, managing editor for the New York Tribune and U.S. Ambassador to France and Great Britain. Born in Xenia, Ohio, Reid wrote for the Cincinnati Gazette and was one of theā¦
Head-and-shoulders portrait shows General John Hunt Morgan of the Confederate Army around the time of his death in 1864, executed well after the American Civil War. A similar portrait was published in Harper's Weekly in 1864 announcing Morgan's…
Drummer boys off duty, playing cards in camp, winter of 1862. Group portrait of 6 men and boys; some are playing cards at a table outside of a log and tent shelter.
Albumen stereograph showing an exterior view of the site of the Libby Prison, a Confederate military prison near Richmond Virginia. This photograph was taken as a part of the series, 'Photographic History: The War for the Union.'