Civil War Photography

What can images teach us about the war?

1. Lt. Washington, a Confederate Prison, and Capt. Custer, U.S.A., 1862

2. Gen. Robert B. Potter and Staff of Seven, Recognized Capt. McKibben…, 1863

3. President Lincoln on Battle-Field of Antietam, 1862

4. Portrait of Brig. Gen. Napoleon B. McLaughlin…and Staff, Vicinity of Washington,

D.C., 1861

5. Culpeper, Va. ‘Contrabands’, 1863

6. African American Soldiers and Their Teachers and Officers, date unkown

7. Cold Harbor, Va. African Americans Collecting Bones of Soldiers Killed in Battle, 1865

8. Field Where General Reynolds Fell, Gettysburg, 1863

9. Antietam, Md. Bodies of Dead Gathered for Burial, 1862

10. He Sleeps His Last Sleep, 1862

11. A Contrast. Federal Buried; Confederate Unburied, Where They Fell on the Battle Field of

Antietam, 1862

12. …Views of the Covered Ways inside the Rebel Fort Mahone, Called by the Soldiers ‘Fort

Damnation’…1865