The Civil War in Photographs By Ashley Potoukian and Leah Vincent

The Civil Warin Photographs

ByAshley Potoukian

andLeah Vincent

In Power

President Abraham LincolnUnited States of America

United States CapitolWashington, D.C.

President Jefferson DavisConfederate States of America

Confederate States CapitolRichmond, VA

Union General Ulysses S. GrantArmy of the Potomac

Confederate General Robert E. LeeArmy of Northern Virginia

In the Camp

Officers of the 17th New York Battery(Union)

26th New York Volunteers(Union)

Company E, 4th U. S. Colored Infantry(Union)

107th U. S. Colored Infantry Band(Union)

Sailors on the U. S. S. Monitor(Union)

Maryland Soldiers(Confederate)

Company B, 2nd Mississippi Volunteers(Confederate)

16th Virginia Infantry(Confederate)

Mosby’s Rangers(Confederate)

Summer Quarters

Winter Quarters

Camp Post Office

Sutler’s (food seller’s) Booth

Newsboys

General Camp Life

General Camp Life

An Officer Entertaining Friends at His Headquarters

An Officer and His Family at His Headquarters

An Officer Entertaining Friends at His Headquarters

In the Field

Rifles

Cannon

The Largest Cannon Used in the War

“The Dictator” Mortar Gun

Ammunition

“Quaker Guns”

Fortifications

Balloon Reconnaissance

Fort Sumter, South CarolinaApril 1861

First Bull Run (First Manasses)July 1861

GettysburgJune-July 1863

GettysburgJune-July 1863

Cold HarborGrant’s Wilderness Campaign: May – June

1864

Sherman’s March to the SeaDecember 1864

Ambulance Wagons

U. S. Sanitary Commission Hospital

U.S. Sanitary Commission Nurses

In the End

McLean HouseAppomattox Court House, VirginiaSite of Lee’s Surrender to Grant

Ford’s TheaterWashington, D. C.

Site of Lincoln’s Assassination

Destroyed Homes in theSouthern Countryside

Destroyed Commercial DistrictRichmond, Virginia

A Few of the 600,000 Casualties