Yankee Collection (#9)

At Massaponax Church, Virginia, General Ulysses S. Grant (left end of bench nearest tree)
CIVIL WAR, COLD HARBOR, VA. At Massaponax Church, Virginia, General Ulysses S. Grant (left end of bench nearest tree) sits on a pew from Bethesda Church writing a dispatch, May 21, 1864

The Last Ditch of the Chivalry or a President in Petticoats. A Northern satire on the capture of Jefferson Davis
PRESIDENT IN PETTICOATS. The Last Ditch of the Chivalry or a President in Petticoats. A Northern satire on the capture of Jefferson Davis. Lithograph cartoon by Currier and Ives, 1865

President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) and officers of the Union Army and Union Navy (left-to-right)
LINCOLN AND OFFICERS. President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) and officers of the Union Army and Union Navy (left-to-right): Admirals Porter and Farragut, President Lincoln, Generals Sherman, Thomas

Dock on the James River at City Point, Virginia, location of Ulysses S. Grants supply depot during the Siege of
CIVIL WAR: CITY POINT. Dock on the James River at City Point, Virginia, location of Ulysses S. Grants supply depot during the Siege of Petersburg, 1864-65

Emancipation Proclamation
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Oil on canvas, 1863, by A.A. Lamb

ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-1885). 18th President of the United States. Photographed in the uniform of Lieutenant General in May 1865

RICHARD NIXON (1913-1994). 37th President of the United States. Tossing out the first ball at the Senators opening game with New York, Washington, D.C. 7 April 1969. Photographed by Warren Leffler

BENJAMIN BUTLER (1818-1893). American soldier and politician. Cartoon, 1884, by Thomas Nast attacking Butlers presidential nomination by the Anti-Monopoly and National (Greenback) parties

George B. McClellan, 1864
GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, 1864. on a presidential campaign songsheet cover

North Anna River, 1864
NORTH ANNA RIVER, 1864. Grants Great Campaign - The New York Fourteenth Heavy Artillery Crossing Chesterfield Bridge, On The North Ana, Under A Heavy Fire (from the Confederate troops), May 1864

SAMUEL FRANCIS du PONT (1803-1865). American naval officer. Photographed by Mathew Brady during the Civil War

CIVIL WAR: UNION STEAMER. The Union steamer Daniel Webster off Point Isabel, Texas, March 1861, bound for New York carrying federal troops from Fort Brown, Texas

CIVIL WAR SOLDIER, 1863. A Yankee Volunteer. Pencil drawing, 1863, by Edwin Forbes (1839-1895)

CIVIL WAR: FORT FISHER. Landing of soldiers and sailors above Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 13 January 1865 (two days before the capture of the fort)

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

MASS. : U. S. ARSENAL, 1861. Women workers filling cartridges at the U. S
MASS.: U.S. ARSENAL, 1861. Women workers filling cartridges at the U.S. Arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts, during the Civil War. Engraving, 1861, after Winslow Homer

UNION SOLDIER, 1860s. A Union soldier: original carte-de-visite photograph taken during the Civil War

CIVIL WAR: UNION SOLDIER. An unidentified Union soldier. Original carte-de-visite photograph

NATHANIEL PRENTISS BANKS (1816-1894). American politician and army officer. Wood engraving, American, 1862

CIVIL WAR: BLACK TROOPS. Black soldiers serving in the trenches with the Union Army. Wood engraving, French, 1864

CIVIL WAR: SOLDIERS, 1861. The Seventh Regiment of New York volunteers, nine hundred and ninety-one strong, passing down Cortland Street, on their way to the Philadelphia Railroad

MONITOR & MERRIMACK, 1862. The engagement between the Monitor and the Merrimack, 9 March, 1862. American bank-note engraving, c1870

BATTLE OF FORT DONELSON. Ulysses S. Grant at the storming of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, 15 February 1862. Lithograph, 1862, by Currier & Ives

CIVIL WAR: UNION SOLDIERS. Brigadier General Orlando Bolivar Willcox and his staff of the 3d Division, 9th Corps, before the Siege of Petersburg in Virginia, during the American Civil War

CIVIL WAR: ANTIETAM, 1862. Gallant charge of General Burnsides division at the bridge at Antietam, Maryland, 17 September 1862. Steel engraving, 19th century

CARTOON: GENERAL BUTLER. Do You See Me? -General Benjamin F. Butler (1818-1893) defying the Rebels at New Orleans: American cartoon, 1873

MONITOR VS MERRIMACK, 1862. The Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack, 9 March 1862: lithograph, 1889, by Kurz & Allison

CIVIL WAR: RETURNING HOME. A Union Army volunteer returning home after the American Civil War. Steel engraving, American, 19th century

CIVIL WAR: BLACK SOLDIER. Studio portrait of Sgt. J. L. Baldwin of Company G, 56th U. S
CIVIL WAR: BLACK SOLDIER. Studio portrait of Sgt. J.L. Baldwin of Company G, 56th U.S. Colored Infantry, organized in August 1863. Oil over a photograph

FORT SUMTER, 1861. Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, during the American Civil War. Undated lithograph by Currier and Ives

CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS. Union soldiers filling canteens in Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 1864

CIVIL WAR: VETERAN, 1867. Veteran with leg amputated below the knee surrounded by a crowd: wood engraving, 1867

CIVIL WAR: UNION SOLDIERS. Photograph by Mathew Brady

RETURNING SOLDIER, 1866. Home Again. The return of a wounded Union officer to his family at the end of the Civil War. American lithograph, 1866

CIVIL WAR: MISSOURI. The camp of U. S. Army General James Henry Lane near Humansville, Missouri
CIVIL WAR: MISSOURI. The camp of U.S. Army General James Henry Lane near Humansville, Missouri, along the Kansas border, October 1861. Contemporary American wood engraving

CIVIL WAR: PLAYING CARD. The King of Drummers, from a Union Army series of playing cards, made by Andrew Dougherty, New York, 1865

CIVIL WAR: GARIBALDI GUARD. The 39th New York State Volunteers, known as the Garibaldi Guard, carrying the Italian revolutionary tricolor flag as they march past President Lincoln during the American

CIVIL WAR: SOLDIER. Union soldier photographed in camp

JOSEPH HOOKER (1814-1879). American Union General. Line and stipple engraving, 19th century

JOHN A. RAWLINS (1831-1869). American soldier and politician

SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. The Second Battle of Bull Run, 29-30 August 1862. Stonewall Jacksons foot cavalry at the Second Manassas. Wood engraving, 19th century

CIVIL WAR: CHRISTMAS, 1861. Union soldiers opening boxes in camp on Christmas 1861. Wood engraving, after Winslow Homer, on the front page of Harpers Weekly, 4 January 1862

THOMAS HEADQUARTERS. The Snodgrass House, American commander George Henry Thomas headquarters at Chickamauga, Georgia. Photochrome, c1902

CIVIL WAR: CARTOON, 1865. An 1865 English cartoon by John Tenniel on the anticipated reconciliation between North and South following the end of the American Civil War

CIVIL WAR: CARD GAME, 1864. Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry playing cards at Petersburg, Virginia, in August 1864

BATTLE OF SHILOH, 1862. Gallant Charge of the 19th Brigade. Lithograph, 1862

UNION ARMY VOLUNTEERS being attacked in St. Louis, Missouri, May 1861: wood engraving from a contemporary American newspaper

CIVIL WAR: SOLDIERS. The Drummer Boy of Our Regiment - Eight Scenes. Wood engraving from a Northern newspaper of 1863

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