Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with shotgun sitting next to dog
Confederate States of America.--Army--People--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Confederate--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--Confederate--1860-1870.
Rifles--1860-1870.
Dogs--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Confederate.
Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with shotgun sitting next to dog
N/A
Library of Congress
N/A
between 1861 and 1865
No known restrictions on publication.
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Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 3130 [P&P]
Confederate camp outside Nashville, TN. Winter 1864.
Confederate Camp Life
"We bivouac on the cold and hard-frozen ground, and when we walk about, the echo of our footsteps sound like the echo of a tombstone. The earth is crusted with snow, and the wind from the northwest is piercing our bones. We can see our ragged soldiers, with the sunken cheeks and famine-glistened eyes."
- Sam Watkins, Co. H., First Tennessee Regiment, December, 1864
The Battle of Nashville »
Library of Congress
1864
Not Known
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English
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Returned Federal prisoners from Andersonville (i.e. Belle Isle) prison
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States--Maryland--Annapolis
Photograph shows Pvt. William M. Smith, Co. D, 8th Kentucky Vols. at U.S. General Hospital, Div. No. 1, Annapolis, Maryland, June 1, 1864. Source: U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, 2013.
Not Known
Library of Congress
[photographed 1864 June 1, printed between 1880 and 1889]
[photographed 1864 June 1, printed between 1880 and 1889]
No known restrictions on publication.
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2013645514
Andersonville Prison as seen by John L. Ransom, author and publisher of "Andersonville diary, escape and list of the dead," Washington, D.C. / A. Sachse & Co. Lithographers & Printers, Baltimore.
Ransom, John L.
Andersonville Prison--1860-1870.
Prisons--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870.
Prisoners--Union--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870.
Hangings (Executions)--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870.
Fences--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Detention facilities--Confederate.
Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Andersonville Prison, with prisoner's tents, gallows for executions, and a stream for washing, surrounded by three rows of stockade fences and with artillery batteries of cannons at the corners; includes numbered key identifying prominent features.
A. Sachse & Co.,
Library of Congress
c1882 Sep. 29
No known restrictions
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English
Photo
digital file from original print
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.02585
District of Columbia. Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
Forts & fortifications.
Infantry.
United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Shows 27 African Americans in two lines with rifles resting on the ground.
Smith, William Morris, photographer
Library of Congress
Not Given
Between 1863 and 1866
No known restrictions on publication.
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English
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Call Number: LC-B817- 7890 [P&P] LOT 4190-F (corresponding print)
Clara Barton, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front
Barton, Clara,--1821-1912
Picture of Clara Barton from 1865
Mathew Brady, Washington D.C.
Library of Congress
1944 March 31 [from a photograph taken 186-]
No known restrictions on publication.
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English
Photograph
Digital Id
ppmsca 37768 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.37768
cph 3a20565 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a20565
Frances Clalin, dressed as a man.
Subject: Clalin, Francis
Civil War, 1861-1865.
Portraits.
United States. Army. 44th Missouri Artillery.
Francis Clalin, disguised as a man, served in the 44th Regiment, Missouri Artillery, Company I for 3 months and in the 13th Missouri Cavalry, Company A, for 19 months.
Creator: Minnesota Historical Society, Photo Lab
Photographer: Masury, S.
Creation: 06/2005
Content: Approximately 1862
Minnesota Historical Society
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English
Photo
Collection I.379.172
Immigrant women working in a steam laundry
(North Women 1)
In industrial cities like Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, and Minneapolis, women worked in similar occupations as they did in the countryside, such as laboring from home. They sewed hats, did textile piecework, and made shoes. As in the countryside, urban home laborers tended to be married women with children. In contrast to the countryside, however, home laborers in cities were often poor immigrants. Their extreme dependence on the income from home labor made them targets of exploitation. (13)
Women also did work that would do at home in factories, such as working in laundries.
Wolverhampton City Council Archives & Local Studies
Wolverhampton City Council Archives & Local Studies
Wolverhampton City Council Archives & Local Studies
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Battle Cry of Freedom - by George F Root
Civil War Music
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_mpsIFmPZvY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
George F. Root
YouTube Channel: mysterysanderson
Feb 11, 2014
Jacqueline Schwab
YouTube Video
English
Music Video
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, OR, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY
Civil War Propaganda
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was oil on the fires of the anti-slavery movement. On June 5, 1851, the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin appeared in the Washington anti-slavery paper, The National Era. At first there appeared to be little interest, but the story gained an ever-increasing audience as weekly installments followed. In book form it became a runaway sensation. In its first week of publication (March 20, 1852), ten thousand copies were sold. Within a year, three hundred thousand copies had been purchased. That the novel intensified the debate over the role of slavery is an understatement. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel gave the conflict an international audience. By 1860, Uncle Toms Cabin was in print in at least twenty languages. In southern states, Stowe became a hated woman. The novel has been described as exploding “like a bombshell,” its “social impact…on the United States…greater than that of any book before or since,” and “the book [that] precipitated the American Civil War.” Certainly no one expected that the long two-volume Uncle Tom’s Cabin, with the first African-American hero in American literature, and written by a woman, would become the most popular and influential novel in the United States of the nineteenth century.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
John P. Jewett & CO.
1852
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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The "Gentlemen" of the Southern Army
Civil War Propaganda
This cartoon is mocking the Southerners’ character and questioning their battlefield prowess. In the forefront are two Confederate soldiers, one pointing with a knife and another holding a musket in the back. Both appear less than gentlemanly as they are dressed in mismatched and disheveled uniforms. The one soldier is acknowledging that he has discovered an area with some wounded where they can escape safely and have some fun. In addition to these two men there is a soldier in the background that is sketched bayoneting a downed soldier how has his arm raised in an appeal for mercy. This depiction serves as a counter to the image of the Southern soldier as chivalrous and brave. Instead of supporting the idea that the Confederate soldiers are “gentlemen”, this artist is instead arguing that they are brutal ruffians.
Unknown
Special Collections, Gettysburg College
Special Collections, Gettysburg College
1861-08-24
Gross, Matthew R.
Digital images copyright Special Collections, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College. All rights reserved. For permission information, see http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/policies/copyright_information.dot
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The Herod of the Nineteenth Century
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Slavery -- United States -- 19th century
Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation
A depiction of Abraham Lincoln as a king holding a glass labeled "power". This cartoon is charging Lincoln for being complacent with the border slave states. The figure to left holds a slave in one hand and a pitcher labelled "tobacco" in the other. Her shirt says "cotton" and her dress "union with slavery" while her legs have "avarice" (greediness) and "prejudice. She is asking for the head of Liberty, who is locked in a cell pondering "Who'll protect me know?" Though Lincoln did announce the Emancipation Proclamation he still exhibited a hesitancy to free slaves in areas controlled by the Union. He had rebutted the emancipation proclamations of both John C. Fremont and David Hunter prior to his own proclamation. In the cartoon Lincoln is reaching for a jug labelled "expediency" inferring that he was willing to undertake the easiest course regardless of issues like slavery.
Special Collections, Gettysburg College
Special Collections, Gettysburg College
Gross, Matthew R.
Digital images copyright Special Collections, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College.
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Join the Hillhouse Light Infantry
Civil War Propaganda`
John B. Honstain
The Atlantic
Company I
New-York Historical Society
JPEG
English
Poster
The Nation Must Be Saved
Civil War Propoganda
(Collection of the New-York Historical Society, Neg. #ac03149)
Colonel W. H. Brown
The Atlantic
36th Regiment of New York Volunteers
New-York Historical Society
JPEG
English
Confederate camp outside Nashville, TN. Winter 1864.
“Winter Encampments: The Long and Frozen Road”. Civil War Trust. Accessed 2 December 2015.
Library of Congress
Civil War Trust
Not Known
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English
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How the Cotton Gin Changed America
Cotton Gin's Importance in American History
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bns6aKfrIjA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
YouTube
Discerning History
Nov 22, 2012
© 2011 - 2015 Copyright Discerning History
YouTube Video
English
YouTube Video
The Army Telegraph—Setting Up The Wire During an Action.—[Sketched by Mr. A. R. Waud.]
Civil War Telegraph Setup
Army setting up telegraph wire
Mr. W. Homer
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war
Harper's Weekly
January 24th, 1863
Son of the South,
Permission for use is directly on website as quoted below.
"Civil War Harper's Weekly, January 24, 1863
Welcome to our online archive of Harper's Weekly newspapers. This collection is available for your study and research. These old newspapers allow you to gain new insights into this important period in American History."
Photograph
English
Photograph
Lloyd's American railroad map.
United States Railroad Map
Covers area east of the Mississippi River. Omits most of Florida and northern Maine. Indicates "railroads in running order." [From published bibliography]
Map from Library of Congress
[New York]
1861
Lloyd, James T.
Library of Congress
JPEG
Englsih
Map
Adams Cottage Press No. 4, patented 1861
Civil War Printing Tech
Propaganda tech:View of a Civil War encampment from Harper’s Weekly, November 2, 1861
Smithsonian Staff
http://americanhistory.si.edu
The Smithsonian Institution
1861
The Smithsonian Institution
Exhibit Information
English
Civil War Submarine
Civil War Submarine
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/videos/civil-war-submarine/embed/" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen></iframe>
How did the earliest wartime submarine operate?
National Geographic Channel
Secret Weapon of the Confederacy
National Geographic Partners
September 15th, 2011 @ 9pm
National Geographic Partners, LLC
Video Clip from "Secret Weapon of the Confederacy" special that National Geographic aired.
English
Short Video Clip
Compromise of 1877 illustration
End of Radical Reconstruction and Troop removal
Illustration depicting the Compromise of 1877 giving the Republican Party the Presidency with the promise of Troop removal from the military occupied South.
Thomas Nast
Harper's Weekly
January 27, 1877.
Public Domain
Freedman's Bureau's difficulties during Reconstruction
Reconstruction. Harper's Weekly. Freedman's Bureau.
An 1868 illustration evoking the difficulties faced by the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency responsible for transforming Southern society, in the face of white opposition, to accommodate freed slaves.
Douglas R. Egerton
The Granger Collection, New York
1868
Public Domain
KKK Video
<iframe width="480" height="320" src="http://player.history.com/pservice/embed-player/?siteId=hist&tPid=21149102" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Battle of the Ironclads
US Navy
Ironclads USS Monitor (foreground) and CSS Virginia (center) meet at the Battle of Hampton Roads. (Library of Congress)
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/navy-hub/navy-history/steel--steam/battle-of-hampton-roads.jpg
Library of Congress
Public Domain
Battle of the Ironclads
US Navy
Ironclads USS Monitor (foreground) and CSS Virginia (center) meet at the Battle of Hampton Roads. (Library of Congress)
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/navy-hub/navy-history/steel--steam/battle-of-hampton-roads.jpg
Library of Congress
Public Domain
Kearsarge v. Alabama
US Navy
USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864 Painting by Xanthus Smith, 1922, depicting Alabama sinking, at left, after her fight with the Kearsarge (seen at right). Courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York. Official U.S. Navy Photograph.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
Public Domain
Civil War Technology
Civil War
<iframe width="480" height="320" src="http://player.history.com/pservice/embed-player/?siteId=hist&tPid=21102058" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen></iframe>
History.com Staff
history.com
A&E Television Networks
2010
A&E Television Networks
Embedded Video
English
Intro Video
General Butler holding the Mob in check at New Orleans
Union Major General Butler. Military Governor of New Orleans.
Illustration of General Butler subduing a mob in New Orleans 1862. Earning him a name by Southerners as "Beast Butler".
Charles Stanley Reinhart
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division
1896
Open Domain
Illustration
Mr. Stanton's Suspension in regards to Johnson
Mr. Stanton's Suspension and the road to the Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.
This is an article seen in the New York Times summarizing President Johnson's reasoning for dismissing Secretary of State Edwin M. Stanton. Within this article it chronicles President Johnson’s emotions and attitudes toward Stanton. It also includes his executive orders. This article is a preface leading up towards President Johnson's impeachment.
New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
12/17/1867
New York Times