Selected Civil War Photographs Collection: Part 2

Library of Congress ^ | July 6, 2007 | Various

[indcons]

The Selected Civil War Photographs Collection contains 1,118 photographs. Most of the images were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men.

An additional two hundred autographed portraits of army and navy officers, politicians, and cultural figures can be seen in the Civil War photograph album, ca. 1861-65. (James Wadsworth Family Papers). The full album pages are displayed as well as the front and verso of each carte de visite, revealing studio logos, addresses, and other imprint information on the approximately twenty photographers represented in the album.

[Tax-chick]

Thank you! It never occurred to me even to wonder how they transported pontoon boats :-).

[Professional Engineer]

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[stand watie]

VERY NICE PIX!

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[wardaddy]

those pics really come to life up on a screen like that

that Gettysburg pic of the three Reb prisoners sitting on the split pole redoubt was an inspiration for one of Winslow Homer’s illustrations about defiance or something....

lots of Yankee blood shed up in those fields across the river behind the bucolic village of Fredricksburg....perhaps their finest hour...futile but gallant...sort of their Franklin

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie Ping
Thanks for the flag to this thread DC2000 and wardaddy.

[stainlessbanner]

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[stainlessbanner]

I love that photo of the quaker guns. Southern ingenuity fooled the blue coats a few times.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Thanks for the ping SB

[smug]

Thanks for the post. I know these images have no copyright restrictions on them, but does anyone know where I can download Hi-rez files of them?

[bert]

I'm be in Strawberry Plains tomorrow and will hunt this bridge............

"[Knoxville, Tenn., vicinity. Military bridge at Strawberry Plains and a fort in the distance, seen from north bank of the Holston"

[indcons]

Yes, you can. Go to the site and look for hi-resolution JPEG versions. They have hi-res pics for each photo.

[smug]

thanks much

[Fitzcarraldo]

The difficult strategic situation of the federal armies after Chickamauga

My g-g-g-Grandfather joined a Wisconsin regiment and became a prisoner of the Confederates during the battle of Chickamauga. He spend a few years in Andersonville and other prisons, but survived to tell the tale and lived a long, productive live afterwards as a farmer.

[Oorang]

Excellent thread and thanks for the ping.

My grandmother's parents ran the Franklin County, N.C., poor farm where quite a few of the residents were elderly Confederate soldiers. As a child she loved helping them tend the gardens and hearing their stories. I also loved hearing their stories through her.

[indcons]

bert,

Let us know how your trip went, if you don’t mind. Did you find this bridge?

[stainlessbanner]

What a treasure. Write those stories down to pass along to the next generation.

[bert]

Here are three current photos of the bridge at Strawberry Plains taken on the southside of the river. The original photo above was taken on the opposite bank that is not readily accessable..

The first shows the old pier thought to be part of the civil war bridge adjacent to the current pier

The second shows the plaque on the current bridge indicating 1907 construction

The third is of the current railway bridge serving local mining interests.

[indcons]

These pics are so cool, bert. Thanks for sharing them.

[Palladin]

Great pics. Thanks for the history lesson!

[M1911A1]

Thanks for the pics. I’m currently playing a terrific strategic level civil war game from Ageod, and am re-reading Shelby Foote’s trilogy. I shouldn’t be surprised to find Free Republic as a resource for great civil war info.