Library of Congress photos from the 1860s

David Dixon Porter - Mathew Brady's National Photographic Art Gallery

Portrait of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, officer of the Federal Army (between 1860 and 1865)

Ambrose Burnside2

Thomas Hicks - Leopold Grozelier - Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln 1860 - cropped to lithographic plate

Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait, facing left; first photo to show his beard

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait. Copy of photo by Joseph Hill

Portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, officer of the United States government.

Hon. Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, February 12, 1809 / photographed by Brady.

Photograph of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln O-36 by Butler, 1860-crop

Wagon train crossing pontoon bridge, Rappahannock River, below Fredericksburg, Va

A sailor sits in a small boat in the foreground with a side wheeler in the rear

Unidentified young soldier in infantry uniform

Frederick George D'Utassy

Braxton Bragg

First Manassas map2

Unidentified Union officer, bust portrait, facing front / E. & J. Bruening's Photograph Gallery, Indianapolis, Ind

Soldier's skeletons City Point, Va. / / Original photographs taken by the Government photographer during the war.

Unidentified Union officer, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right / photographed by Brigham Bishop, photographer, Army of the Cumberland

Unidentified Union officer, full-length portrait, facing front / photographed by E. & J. Bruening, Indianapolis, Ind

Non-commissioned officers, 19th Iowa Infantry, exchanged prisoners from Camp Ford, Texas. Photographed at New Orleans on their arrival

Group portrait of soldiers in front of a tent, possibly at Camp Cameron, Washington, D.C. / G.N. Barnard & C.O. Bostwick, photos

Possibly Adjutant Carl (Charles) Schmitt, Union officer, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front / photographed by Godshaw & Mathis, Owensboro, Ky

Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with saber and revolver in locket with chain of braided hair

Abraham Lincoln O-57 by Brady, 1861

Abraham Lincoln O-57 by Brady, 1861-Meserve

Freight train on Orange and Alexandria Railroad

Lowe balloon photo

Cedar Mountain, Va. Family group before the house in which Gen. Charles S. Winder (C.S.A.) died

Centreville, Va. Stone church

James Joyner Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862 01

Five generations on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina

Centreville. Fort on the heights (a.k.a. Manassas Junction), with Quaker Guns

Chimborazo hospital richmond civil war picture 2

William McIlvaine - The Chickahominy - Sumners Upper Bridge

Yorktown artillery2

Attack on Harper's Ferrypass5

Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union edit

Nat. Hayward (i.e. Heyward) House, 1860. Gen. Saxton's residence, Beaufort, S.C., 1864 / photographed by E.W. Sinclair for Sam. A. Cooley, photographer Tenth Army Corps

The defenders of our Union 109 Commanders of the Union Army / / Photographed and published by C.F. May, 519 8th Avenue, New York.

Battle of Gettysburg

Alfred Waud by Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Slaughter pen, foot of Round Top, Gettysburg

Meade-Headquarters Culpeper

Brig. Gen. Henry Prince of the 2d Division, 3d Corps, and staff, Culpeper, Virginia

Battle-field of Gettysburg--Dead Confederate sharpshooter at foot of Little Round Top i.e., Devil's Den

Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter. Gettysburg, Pa. Dead Confederate soldier in Devil's Den

Provost Marshal's Office, Aquia Creek

Big Round Top

Alfred Waud by Timothy H. O'Sullivan - Original

Botts House

Marsena Patrick and staff

Fairfax Court House, Va. The courthouse

Fredericksburg1862 (cropped)

Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Sep 1863

Santa Claus 1863 Harpers

Camp William Penn, Pennsylvania / photographed by B.F. Reimer, 615 & 617 North Second Street, Philadelphia

Ruins of a defensive installation or battery, Port Hudson, Louisiana / photographed by McPherson & Oliver, Baton Rouge, La

Abraham Lincoln head on shoulders photo portrait

Abraham Lincoln O-77 matte collodion print