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Media in category "Images of people of the American Civil War" The following 24 files are in this category, out of 24 total. Ambrose Everett Burnside.jpg 1,200 × 1,600; 831 KB
The American Civil War was the first war in history whose intimate reality would be brought home to the public, not only in newspaper depictions, album cards and cartes-de-visite, but in a popular new 3D format called a "stereograph," "stereocard" or "stereoview." Millions of these cards were produced and purchased by a public eager to ...
Union veteran drummer Sumner Flint Hartshorn of Co. C, 12th Iowa Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The 12th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Before the American Civil War, the United States was known as the "United States' federal union", a union of states controlled by the federal government in Washington, D.C. [8] [9] This was opposite to the CSA's first government, a confederation of independent states, functioning similarly to the European Union.
Sifakis, Stewart, Who Was Who in the Civil War. Facts On File, New York, 1988. ISBN 0-8160-1055-2. United States War Department, The Military Secretary's Office, Memorandum Relative to the General Officers in the Armies of the United States During the Civil War, 1861–1865, (Compiled from Official Records.) 1906.
We do know that as a teenager, he was employed by Mathew Brady, a photographer who also became known for his Civil War photographs. O'Sullivan claimed that when the Civil War began in early 1861, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Union Army (though Joel Snyder, O'Sullivan's biographer, could find no definitive proof of this claim in ...
This ceremony marked the end of Russell's tenure as the official photographer of the Union Pacific railroad, a position he had taken after filling the same post for the Union Army during the Civil War. [4] By 1869 he had in fact "...labored for nearly two years to produce over 200 full plate (10" x 13") images and over 500 stereo cards. In ...
The 1st Louisiana Native Guard, one of many Louisiana Union Civil War units, was formed in New Orleans after the city was taken and occupied by Union forces. It was formed in part from the Confederacy's former unit of the same name , which had been made up of property-owning free people of color ( gens de couleur libres ). [ 17 ]