Selected Civil War Photographs Collection [Part III]

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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.

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Falmouth, Va. Group in front of post office tent at Army of the Potomac headquarters].



[Beaufort, S.C. 50th Pennsylvania Infantry in parade formation].



[Bull Run, Va. Catharpin Run, Sudley Church, and the remains of the Sudley Sulphur Spring house].



[Bull Run, Va. Dedication of the battle monument; Judge Abram B. Olin of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, who delivered the address, stands by the rail].



[Port Royal Island, S.C. Coosaw Ferry; battleground of January 1, 1862, in the distance].



[Hilton Head, S.C. Dock built by Federal troops].



[Centreville, Va. Fort on the heights, with Quaker guns]



[Manassas, Va. Confederate winter quarters].



[Falmouth, Va. Capt. Charles H. Howard, aide to Gen. Oliver O. Howard, on horseback at Army of the Potomac headquarters].



[James River, Va. Officers of the U.S.S. Monitor grouped by the turret].



[James River, Va. Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor].



[Fort Pulaski, Ga. The "Beauregard" gun].



[Harrison's Landing, Va. Members of the class of 1860, U.S. Military Academy].



[Cold Harbor, Va., vicinity. Ruins of Gaines' mill].



[Cedar Mountain, Va. Federal battery fording a tributary of the Rappahannock on the day of battle].



[Warrenton, Va. Street in front of courthouse].



[Falmouth, Va. Capt. George A. Custer and Gen. Alfred Pleasonton on horseback].



[Warrenton, Va. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside and staff].



[Warrenton, Va. Gen. Edwin V. Sumner and staff].



[Atlanta, Ga. Gen. William T. Sherman, leaning on breach of gun, and staff at Federal Fort No. 7].



[James River, Va. Another Confederate gun emplacement at Howlett House, Trent's Reach].

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Selected Civil War Photographs Collection [Part I]: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757909/posts

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These are fabulous pictures.
I have one of my great grandmothers dad playing the “drum”, he was about 12, his uniform did not fit, he really looks so small.
He was part of a troop in “Sherman’s march to the sea”.

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Civil war era telegraphers.

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Glad you like them...I post this thread every once in a while.

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[Tax-chick]

Thanks - bttt for later.

[martin_fierro]

Cool stuff!

This is reportedly an Civl War-era ancestor of mine.

Image scanned from a glass daguerrotype.

Check out the beard!

[indcons]

Thanks for sharing the photo, martin_fierro.

I am trying to check the veracity of the legend that sideburns were named after Gen. Burnside.

[Bobalu]

To view the stereopticon images cross eyes and focus on the center image.
This may be better with a pair of reading glasses on.

The image of the Monitor is really a good stereo image.

[dynachrome]

If you haven’t been pinged, yet....

great civil war photos!

[carton253]

Thank you so much for sharing these pictures with us.

[Pinetop]

Thank you. I was just in Falmouth, VA this weekend and had breakfast at Amy’s in an old warehouse on the Rappahannock. Some of these same pictures of Confederate Falmouth are on the old brick walls.

I really enjoyed your post. You might enjoy Drew Gilpen Faust’s “Republic of Suffering—Death and the Civil War.”

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My great-great grandfather was a Confederate cavalryman in Nathan Bedford Forrest’s command. He survived the war and died in 1923 at the ripe old age of 84. He was born in Germany in 1839, and came to the United States when he was young, settling with his family in Louisiana. He still had his saber when he died.

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What year did Custer graduate 1862?

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“What year did Custer graduate 1862?”

1861.

[jazusamo]

Thanks for the great pics and post!