American Civil War

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The American Civil War (1861-1865) was fought between the northern and the southern states of the United States over the right of secession.

Over a thousand public domain images are available from The Library of Congress. (These should be imported and categorized)

Contents

Maps [edit]

US Secession map 1861.svg
1861		 US map 1864 Civil War divisions.svg
1864		 US Secession map 1865.svg
1865
   States that seceded before April 15, 1861
   States that seceded after April 15, 1861
   Union states that permitted slavery
   Union states that forbade slavery
   Territories, unaffiliated
   Union states, including those admitted during the war
   Union states that permitted slavery
   Confederate States
   Territories
   Union states
   Union territories
   The border states
   Bleeding Kansas
   The Confederacy
   Confederate claimed and sometimes held territories

Leaders [edit]

  • Featured pictures"The Peacemakers", 1868

  • The Confederate Cabinet

Soldiers [edit]

  • Soldier

  • Union Soldiers

  • "All Quiet Along the Potomac"

  • Featured pictures African-American soldiers at Dutch Gap, Virginia

  • DoV1-034 - The Battle of Shiloh.jpg

  • McClellan riding through Frederick, Maryland

  • Battle of Antietam

  • 4th United States Colored Infantry

Eastern Theater [edit]

Land battles [edit]

  • Battle of (First) Bull Run, 1861

  • Battle of Malvern Hill, 1862

  • Battle of Antietam, 1862

  • Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862

  • Pontoon bridge crossing the Rappahannock River, Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862

  • Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863

  • Battle of the Wilderness, 1864

  • Gen. Grant at the Battle of the Wilderness (1864)

  • Battle of Cold Harbor, 1864

  • Fall of Richmond, 1865

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House (1865)

Naval battles [edit]

  • Battle of Hampton Roads (1862)

  • Action of USS Monitor against CSS Virginia (March 9, 1862)

  • Final Assault upon Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1865

Photographs [edit]

  • Featured pictures Union artillery at Yorktown

  • Field hospital after the Battle of Savage's Station (1862)

  • President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan at Antietam

  • Union soldiers entrenched at the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)

  • Featured pictures Confederate dead along Sunken Road, following the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)

  • Dead soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg

  • Collecting bones after the Battle of Cold Harbor

  • "The Dictator" mortar at Petersburg

Western Theater [edit]

  • Battle of Fort Donelson, 1862

  • Battle of Chickamauga, 1863

  • Bombardment and Capture of Island Number Ten on the Mississippi River, April 7, 1862

  • Battle on the lower Mississippi, April 24, 1862

  • The Total Annihilation of the Rebel Fleet by the Federal Fleet under Commodore Davis - June 6, 1862, off Memphis

  • CSS Arkansas running through the Union fleet above Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 15, 1862

  • Bombardment and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. January 11, 1863

  • Admiral Porter's Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16, 1863

  • Battle of Kenesaw Mountain

  • Featured picturesSketch of the Battle of Kenesaw Mountain by Alfred Waud

  • Siege of Atlanta

  • Destroyed Roundhouse at Atlanta

  • Railroad being destroyed during the Atlanta Campaign

  • Destruction of General Hood's Ordnance Train - NARA - 533417.jpg
  • The burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865.jpg

Lower Seaboard Theater [edit]

  • Bombardment of Fort Sumter (1861)

  • Soldiers of the Union army (right) storm a position (Fort Wagner) of the Confederate States Army (left).

  • "The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground", depicting the Second Battle of Fort Wagner (1863)

  • Battle of Olustee (1864)

Trans-Mississippi Theater and elsewhere [edit]

  • Battle of Wilson's Creek, 1861

  • USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama at Cherbourg

    Ships and Vessels [edit]

    • USS Monitor

    • Ironclad gunboat USS Cairo

    • Ironclad gunboat USS Choctaw

    • Timberclad gunboat USS Conestoga

    • USS Cayuga screw steam gunboat

    • CSS Atlanta

    Technology of the war [edit]

    • Thaddeus S.C. Lowe's observation balloon "Intrepid" being inflated

    • Lowe's observation balloon "Intrepid"

    • United States Military Railroad and Lincoln's Presidential Car.

    • United States Military Railroad locomotive

    • Ambulance crew

    Graves [edit]

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