Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts

8/15/11

Civil War Photos by Mathew Brady


Mathew Brady (1822 - 1896) is the father of photojournalism. With his team of photographers Civil War is the most well documented war in it's time. 


Above photo is one of his Photographic Wagon from 1855. (photo by Roger Fenton)

9th New York Militia, June 1861

A company of the 6th Maine Infantry on parade after the battle of Fredericksburg, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

African American Soldiers Training

Battery D, 2nd U.S. Artillery, at Fredericksburg, VA, 1863

Battle of Gettysburg

Camp of the 44th New York Infantry near Alexandria, VA, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

Camp scene showing winter huts and corduroy roads, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

Cavalry at rappahannock

Confederate dead behind a stone wall at Fredericksburg, VA, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

Fairfax Station

General William Tecumseh Sherman on Horseback

General Winfield Scott

Hanover Junction showing what is thought to be Lincoln's train, 1863





1862

1862

Mathew Brady with General Burnside. Photograph believed to have been taken at 9th Corps headquarters, Cold Harbor

One of the only known images of Abraham Lincoln at the November 1863 dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery by Mathew Brady's team

Dead At Antietam


Soldier guarding arsenal Washington DC by, 1862

Dead At Antietam

Union Army Encampment Outside Petersburg, Virginia, c. 1864

Union Soldiers, 1864

View in Wilderness, VA, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

Wounded soldiers under trees, Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, after the battle of Spotsylvania, 1864

Victory Parade on Pennsylvania Ave., 1865


The four condemned conspirators in the Lincoln Assassination await death on the gallows, July 7, 1865

7/19/11

Cilvil War Period Portraits by Matthew Brady

General John A. Rawlins

Capt. Edward P. Doherty, John Wilkes Booth's captor.

Cassius M. Clay

Clara Barton

Edwin Forrest

General Joseph Hooker

Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchell

General Charles Ewing

General Edwin H. Stoughton

General George Armstrong Custer

General Joseph A. Mower

General Lew Wallace

General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson


George Armstrong Custer

William H. Seward, N.Y., Secretary of State

Gideon Welles, Connecticut

Horace Greeley




Miss Bateman

Miss Gottschalk

Miss N. M. Wilder

Neill Smith Brown

Robert E. Lee, just days after his surrender at Appomattox Court House, April 1865

Rose O’Neal Greenhow with her daughter

Sister Mary Joseph

Tad Lincoln

General Ambrose Burnside

William H. Seward, New York, Secretary of State

William Sherman