Yankee Collection (#16)

CIVIL WAR: BLACK TROOPS. The Recruit. Wood engraving, 1867, after a painting by Thomas Waterman Wood (1823-1903)

CIVIL WAR: WEAPONS, 1864. Camp of the Tennessee Colored Battery at Johnsonville, Tennessee, 1864

LINCOLN: UNION ARMY. President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) visiting a Union Army camp. Line engraving, 19th century

CIVIL WAR: HOSPITAL. Patients in the ward of Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C
CIVIL WAR: HOSPITAL. Patients in the ward of Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C. with mosquito nets over their beds, c1864

CIVIL WAR: PERRYVILLE BATTLE. Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, on 8 October 1862. Contemporary engraving

MICHAEL CORCORAN (1827-1863). American army officer. Stipple engraving, American, 19th century

CIVIL WAR: CUSTER, 1862. Lietenants George Armstrong Custer, Nicolas Bowen, and William G. Jones at the Peninsula, Virginia, May 1862. Photographed by James F. Gibson

CIVIL WAR: SOLDIERS, 1865. The Army of the Potomac marches past the head stand during the Grand Review at Washington, D.C. 23 May 1865. Contemporary lithograph

CIVIL WAR: UNION SOLDIER. The Vivanderie. Steel engraving, American, 19th century

CIVIL WAR: SOLDIERS, 1861. Union soldiers and an army cook in camp, 1861. Contemporary English wood engraving

CIVIL WAR: GETTYSBURG. Union artillery on Cemetery Hill at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1-3 July 1863. Contemporary pencil drawing by Alfred R. Waud

CIVIL WAR: UNION CAMP. Union Army camp scene photographed by Mathew Brady

CIVIL WAR: FORT SUMTER 1861. The Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 12-13 April 1861. Wood engraving, American, 1861

BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. The Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, 13 December 1862: lithograph, 1888, by Kurz & Allison

CIVIL WAR: DESERTER. 1861. A Confederate deserter coming into the Federal lines during the skirmish at Munsons Hill, Virginia, September 1861. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

HOME AGAIN, 1866. The return of a wounded Union officer to his family at the end of the Civil War: American lithograph, 1866

CIVIL WAR: SOLDIERS, 1861. New Yorks 7th Regiment marching down Broadway, 19 April 1861. American wood engraving after Thomas Nast, 1861

CIVIL WAR: BULL RUN, 1861. The retreat of Union soldiers turning into a stampede at the First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, 21 July 1861. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

CIVIL WAR: RED RIVER, 1863. The triumphal entry of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks and Union forces into Alexandria, Louisiana, 4 May 1863. Wood engraving from a contemporary American newspaper

BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA 1863. The Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, 19-20 September 1863: lithograph, 1890, by Kurz & Allison

CIVIL WAR: UNION VOLUNTEER. Departure of a volunteer for the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65). Steel engraving, American, c1870

CIVIL WAR: MERRIMAC (1862). The sinking of the U. S. S. Cumberland by the Merrimac (C. S. S. Virginia), March 8, 1862
CIVIL WAR: MERRIMAC (1862). The sinking of the U.S.S. Cumberland by the Merrimac (C.S.S. Virginia), March 8, 1862

ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-1885). Contemporary color engraving

ELY S. PARKER (1828-1895). American Army colonel and Seneca Native American chief. Wood engraving, 1866

CIVIL WAR: SOLDIERS. Pickets Trading Between the Lines. Pencil drawing by Edwin Forbes (1839-1895)

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. James Longstreets Texas Brigade retaking the Union Armys position on the James River before the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War, 16 June 1864

CIVIL WAR: SHILOH, 1862. Lithograph sheet music cover, 1862

BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE, 1862. The defeat of the Confederate Army under Major General Earl Van Dorn by the Union Army under Brigadier General Samuel Curtis at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, 7-8 March 1862

BATTLE OF CHANTILLY, 1862. The Battle of Chantilly, Virginia, 1 September 1862. Steel engraving, 19th century

CIVIL WAR: ARMY CHURCH. Log church built by the 50th New York Engineers (with the Engineers insignia above the door) at Poplar Grove, Virginia. Photographed in March 1865

ROBERT SMALLS (1839-1915). American naval hero and politician, who in 1862 commandeered the Confederate gunboat Planter and delivered it into Union hands. Contemporary wood engraving

CIVIL WAR: BLACK TROOPS. Black troops working in a Union Army forge during the American Civil War. Wood engraving, French, 1864

CHRISTOPHER CARSON (1809-1868). Known as Kit. American frontiersman. Line engraving, late 19th century, after a photograph, c1863

UNION BANKNOTE, 1861. State of Illinois banknote for one dollar issued by the Bank of Quincy, 1861

WILLIAM SOOY SMITH (1830-1916). American general and engineer

CARTOON: ELECTION OF 1864. The political Siamese twins: the offspring of Chicago miscegenation
CARTOON: ELECTION OF 1864. The political " Siamese" twins: the offspring of Chicago miscegenation. Cartoon criticizing Democratic presidential nominee George B

ALLAN PINKERTON (1819-1884). American (Scottish-born) detective. Wood engraving, American, 1884

CIVIL WAR: 7 DAYS BATTLES. Union artillery fire into the advancing Confederate lines during the Battle of Gaines Mill, Virginia, 27 June 1862. Wood engraving from a contemporary American newspaper

JAMES J. ANDREWS (c1829-1862). American Union Army spy. Wood engraving

ALFRED H. TERRY (1827-1890). American army officer. Photographed by Mathew Brady

CIVIL WAR: SOLDIERS. The 50th Pennsylvania Infantry in parade formation at Beaufort, South Carolina, during the American Civil War, February 1862. Photographed by Timothy H. O Sullivan

CIVIL WAR: SOLDIERS. Union Army soldiers pose for the camera: photographd by Timothy H. O Sullivan

DEATH OF N. LYON, 1861. The death of Union General Nathaniel Lyon at the Battle of Wilsons Creek, Missouri, 10 August 1861: lithograph, 1893, by Kurz & Allison

BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE. The Battle of Missionary Ridge during the American Civil War, 24-25 November 1863. Lithograph, 1886, by Kurz & Allison

CIVIL WAR: GREEK FIRE. Confederate General Pierre G. T. de Beauregard, defender of Charleston, South Carolina
CIVIL WAR: GREEK FIRE. Confederate General Pierre G.T. de Beauregard, defender of Charleston, South Carolina, is shocked by the explosion of a Greek Fire bomb shell during the Union siege of

ELIZABETH VAN LEW (1818-1900). American Federal spy: oil over a photograph taken during the Civil War

MISSIONARY RIDGE, 1863. The Battle of Missionary Ridge during the American Civil War, 25 November 1863. Lithograph by Cosack & Co

CIVIL WAR: HOWITZER GUN. A twelve-pound howitzer gun captured by Major Daniel Butterfields Brigade near Hanover Court House, Virginia, 27 May 1862

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