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The Civil War
in Photographs
By
Ashley Potoukian
and
Leah Vincent
In Power
President Abraham Lincoln
United States of America
United States Capitol
Washington, D.C.
President Jefferson Davis
Confederate States of America
Confederate States Capitol
Richmond, VA
Union General Ulysses S. Grant
Army of the Potomac
Confederate General Robert E. Lee
Army of Northern Virginia
In the Camp
Officers of the 17th New York Battery
(Union)
26th New York Volunteers
(Union)
Company E, 4th U. S. Colored Infantry
(Union)
107th U. S. Colored Infantry Band
(Union)
Sailors on the U. S. S. Monitor
(Union)
Maryland Soldiers
(Confederate)
Company B, 2nd Mississippi Volunteers
(Confederate)
16th Virginia Infantry
(Confederate)
Mosby’s Rangers
(Confederate)
Summer Quarters
Winter Quarters
Camp Post Office
Sutler’s (food seller’s) Booth
Newsboys
General Camp Life
General Camp Life
An Officer Entertaining Friends at His
Headquarters
An Officer and His Family at His Headquarters
An Officer Entertaining Friends
at His Headquarters
In the Field
Rifles
Cannon
The Largest Cannon Used in the War
“The Dictator” Mortar Gun
Ammunition
“Quaker Guns”
Fortifications
Balloon Reconnaissance
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
April 1861
First Bull Run (First Manasses)
July 1861
Gettysburg
June-July 1863
Gettysburg
June-July 1863
Cold Harbor
Grant’s Wilderness Campaign: May – June 1864
Sherman’s March to the Sea
December 1864
Ambulance Wagons
U. S. Sanitary Commission Hospital
U.S. Sanitary Commission Nurses
In the End
McLean House
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Site of Lee’s Surrender to Grant
Ford’s Theater
Washington, D. C.
Site of Lincoln’s Assassination
Destroyed Homes in the
Southern Countryside
Destroyed Commercial District
Richmond, Virginia
A Few of the 600,000 Casualties