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The Nation Must Be Saved
(Collection of the New-York Historical Society, Neg. #ac03149)
The Herod of the Nineteenth Century
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…
The "Gentlemen" of the Southern Army
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…
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, OR, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY
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…
Immigrant women working in a steam laundry
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…
Frances Clalin, dressed as a man.
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.
Clara Barton, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front
Picture of Clara Barton from 1865
District of Columbia. Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln
Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Shows 27 African Americans in two lines with rifles resting on the ground.
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.
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…
Returned Federal prisoners from Andersonville (i.e. Belle Isle) prison
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.
Confederate camp outside Nashville, TN. Winter 1864.
"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…
Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with shotgun sitting next to dog
Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with shotgun sitting next to dog
