U.S. National Archives photos from the 1860s

Burial place, Fredericksburg, Va

Fairfax Court House, Va

Pontoon bridge across James River

Negro laborers at Alexandria, near coal wharf

Atlanta fortifications

Brady's photo outfit in front of Petersburg, Va

Army picture gallery

Mathew Brady photograph

Picture gallery. Metropolitan Fair, N.Y.C

Picture gallery, Metropolitan Fair, N.Y.C

Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, C.S.A

Admiral John Dahlgren

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln

Photograph of pass, written by President Lincoln

Photograph of John W. Forney, Secretary of the Senate

Antietam Bridge, Maryland. Sept. 1862. (Photograph by Alexander Gardner)

Brady photograph outfit, going to the front

Photograph of General John C. Fremont

Photograph of Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs

Photograph of Dr. Robert King Stone

Tecumseh sherman

Gen. John Clem, the "drummer boy of Shiloh". Picture made at the age of 12 (1863).

Bvt. Brig. Gen. John E. Mulford, Col. of 3rd N.Y. Inf., with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. William Allen. This picture was taken on the porch of Mr. Allen's house at Richmond, Va

Camp at Cumberland Landing, Va., May 1862. Photo by Alexander Gardner.

Fortifications in front of Atlanta, Ga., 1864

Photograph of the Republican Headquarters in Chicago, 1860

Abraham Lincoln, President, U.S

Barricades on Duke Street, Alexandria, Va., erected to protect the Orange and Alexandria Railroad from Confederate cavalry, 1861

Columbiad guns of the Confederate water battery at Warrington, Florida (entrance to Pensacola Bay)

Maryland, Elk Mountain, Signal Tower

Two photographers having lunch in the Bull Run area before the second battle, 1862

Two photographers having lunch in the Bull Run area before the second battle

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln and His Generals After Antietam

Virginia, Fredericksburg, Battery D, Second United States Artillery.

Virginia, Fredericksburg, Pontoon Bridge across the Rappahannock river.

Virginia, Fairfax, Confederate prisoners at court-house

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg Battlefield, Field where General Reynolds fell.

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg Battlefield, Slaughter Pen

Virginia, Aquia Creek. Provost Marshal's Office, Winter of 1862-3.

Virginia, Auburn, Castle Murray

Virginia, Brandy Station, Army of the Potomac, General Post Office.

Pennsylvania, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Guard Mount, Headquarters Army of the Potomac.

Virginia, Bealton, New York Herald with the Army of the Potomac, Headquarters of.

Virginia, Brandy Station, Wagon Park

Confederate prisoners Fairfax

Army of Potomac Headquarters, Battle of Gettysburg

Virginia, Fairfax, Court-House

Virginia, Fredericksburg

Virginia, Fredericksburg, Evacuation of Aquia Creek

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, interior view of Breastworks on Round Top.

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, Gateway of Cemetery

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg Battlefield, Trossel's (Trostle's) House.

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, Headquarters of the army of the Potomac during the Battle of Gettysburg.

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg. A Harvest of Death

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln

Picture gallery, Metropolitan Fair, N.Y.C.

Picture gallery. Metropolitan Fair, N.Y.

Picture gallery, Metropolitan Fair, N.Y.C.

Photograph of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson