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Throughout the Ages - Civil War

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*Slavery in America and England Compared, circa 1750. A political cartoon that compares slavery in America and England, 1850.

Civil War. U.S. Christian Commission Headquarters Hospital. United States Christian Commission Headquarters at General Hospital. Division of Visual Instruction: A3045_5422. New York State Archives.

Civil War. View South from Ziegler's Grove Tower in Gettysburg. View South from Ziegler's Grove Tower in Gettysburg showing Hancock Avenue on Cemetery Ridge: Meade Avenue (Left foreground ), Monuments, Round Top.

Civil War. Map of Confederate Attack At Gettysburg. Map of the Confederate Attack at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863.

*Heading for the Liberator on November 4, 1859. The heading for the Liberator, November 4, 1859.

*Effects of Fugitive Slave Law, circa 1850. An illustration of the effects of the Fugitive Slave law, circa 1850.

*Advertisement of a Runaway Slave, 1823. An advertisement for a runaway slave, printed in the Ulster Plebian, September 17, 1823.

*Confederate Call to Arms, 1861. Two broadsides about defending and protecting the State of Virginia, April 17, 1861.

*Broadside Calling for 50 Volunteers, 1863. A Civil War broadside that announces the need for 50 recruits.

*Charleston Mercury Broadside, December 1860. Charleston Mercury broadside proclaiming dissolvement of the Union between the State of North Carolina and other states united under the Constitution of the United States of America, December 20, 1860.

*Draft Wheel, circa 1861. A draft wheel used in Provost Marshall's office to draft soldiers during the Civil War, circa 1861.

*U.S. Broadside. Civil War recruitment broadside, Lockport, New York.

*Muster Roll #1269 for Abram Vroman, circa 1864. A muster roll for Abram Vroman, a member of the U.S. Colored Troops, circa 1864.

*Colonel E. E. Ellsworth (1837-61). Colonel E. E. Ellsworth (1837-61), from a Brady negative.

*Muster Roll #1230 for Jasper Yowns, 1865. A muster roll for Jasper Yowns of the U.S. Colored Troops, 1865.

*Sunken Road on Day of Battle, 1863. Dead Confederate soldiers in a sunken road behind a stone wall after a battle at Fredricksburg, Virginia, May 3, 1863.

*Effect of a 32-pound Shell at Fredricksburg, circa 1862. Men standing by smashed army wagons and dead animals hit by a thirty-two-pound shell of the 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery at Fredericksburg, Virginia, circa 1862.

*Union Soldiers in a Trench, 1860s. Union soldiers sitting in a trench during the Civil War, 1860s.

*Union Army’s Method of Destroying Railroads, 1860s. Sections of rails stacked on railroad ties by the Union Army as they destroyed a railroad, 1860s.

*Union Army Supplies, 1864 Union army cannons and other weapons stored at City Point, Virginia, 1864.

*Ruins of Rolling Mill and Railroad at Atlanta, circa 1864. The ruins of a rolling mill, railroad tracks, and railroad cars destroyed by the Confederates before the evacuation of Atlanta, circa 1864.

*Overturned Train after 2nd Battle of Bull Run, 1862. An overturned train after a raid on the Orange and Alexandria railroad following the 2nd Battle of Bull Run, circa August 1862.

*Crippled Locomotive in Richmond, 1860s. A crippled locomotive in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War.

*Reunion at Gettysburg, 1913. Civil War reunion at Gettysburg with hospital, tents and ambulance of Pennsylvania State Department of Health, 1913.

*Army Camp, 1860s. A canon faces out of a Civil War army camp, 1860s.

*Fort Sedgwick, 1860s. Bomb-proof Fort Sedgwick, Petersburg, Virginia, circa 1860s.

*General Ulysses S. Grant and Staff. General Ulysses S. Grant and his staff in front of a tent.

*Lincoln and McClellan at Antietam, 1862. Photograph taken by Alexander Gardner of President Lincoln, General George B. McCellan, and other officers at Antietam, October 3, 1862.

*Emancipation Proclamation, Pages 3 and 4, 1863. Pages 3 and 4 of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863.

*Lincoln's Birthplace in Kentucky, circa 1912. The log cabin in Kentucky where Abraham Lincoln was born. The photograph was taken circa 1912.

*Lincoln Memorial Interior, circa 1922. The interior of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., circa 1922.

*Earliest Known Photograph of Lincoln, circa 1846. The earliest known photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken by Nicholas H. Shepherd probably in Springfield, Illinois, circa 1846.

*Photograph of Lincoln, Shortly Before His Death, 1865. A photograph of Abraham Lincoln shortly before his death. Photographed by Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C., 1865.

*Letter Written by President Lincoln, 1864. A letter written by President Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby, who lost five sons in the Civil War. The letter was written on November 21, 1864.

*Lincoln's Sketch of His Life, 1858. A reply President Lincoln gave when asked for a sketch of his life in 1858.

*School for African American Children, circa 1920s. A schoolhouse for African-American children in York County, Virginia, circa 1920s.

Prison Camp in Elmira, New York, 1860s. A prison camp in Elmira, New York during the Civil War.

*Ulysses S. Grant. Portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885).

*Grant's Funeral Procession in Albany, 1885. Ulysses S. Grant's funeral procession in Albany, New York, July 1885. New York State Library.

*Grant's Tomb. The tomb of President Ulysses S. Grant in New York City. Photograph taken circa 1900.

*Interior of Grant's Tomb. Interior of the tomb of President Ulysses S. Grant in New York City. Photograph taken circa 1900.

*Grant's Coffin, 1885. Ulysses S. Grant's coffin. Franklin Iron Works, Troy, New York. July, 1885.

*Mrs. U. S. Grant. Photograph of Julia Dent Grant. From Brady negative from life. Lantern slide created in 1912.