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The War for the Union photographic war history

Title
  1. The War for the Union [graphic] : photographic war history / Taylor & Huntington.
Published by
  1. 1861-1865, published 1880?-1891?, one view copyright 1904.
Author
  1. Taylor & Huntington, publisher.

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Details

Additional authors
  1. E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) pbl
  2. Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
Description
  1. 30 stereographs (photoprints) : albumen, some col; 90 x 178 mm. or smaller
Summary
  1. Views of the Civil War: views of camp life: dress review of the 1st South Carolina Colored Regiment; women of the Michigan and Pennsylvania Relief Association treating wounded soldiers; pickets cooking rations over an open fire; officers of the 21st Michigan Volunteers, 4th Army corps near Chattanooga, government stables at Chattanooga; Company H, 44th Indiana Volunteers at Lookout Mountain; Sherman [vets] in front of house; men in Camp Anderson; officers of Army of Potomac dining, waited on by African American; Gen. Hatch's headquarters, Charleston, S.C.; headquarters of the 3rd Army Corps; field hospital and wagons, rail cars and tents at Savage Station, Va.; Gen. Grant reading map over Gen. Meade's shoulder at Massaponax Church, Va.; encampment at Cumberland Landing; 10th Army Corps headquarters at Hatchies Run, Va.; men filling canteens; African American man cooking large pots of beans; Gen. Sherman on horseback on the Union lines before Atlanta; Gen. Sherman, staff, artillery before Atlanta; 2nd Massachusetts Infantry camped in front of the city hall at Atlanta; quarters of secret service men; men digging trenches in front of unidentified fort; the home of John Ross, chief of the Cherokee nation near western end of Rossville Gap, used as a hospital; Federal camp at Johnsonville, Tenn., showing railroad depot and camp of the First Tennessee Colored Battery.
  2. Battles and battlefields: Antietam: ambulance corps gathering the dead; Confederate dead in front of Dunker Church; sight of Sumner's charge showing dead; Knapps Battery (Independent Pennsylvania Battery "E") after battle of Antietam; Atlanta: last train removing inhabitants from Atlanta at station; wagons near depot after capture of city; ruins of the Potter house; place where Gen. McPherson was killed; Sherman's men destroying railroad; Charleston: ruins of Fort Sumter; men at mortar battery at Fort Gregg, Morris Island; water battery of Fort Johnson; ruins of Secession Hall; 200 lb. gun used to shell Charleston; Gettysburg: Confederate dead in front of Little Round Top; the Seminary that was used as observatory by both sides, and as hospital; Union dead; Trossel's barnyard showing dead animals; Gen. Meade's headquarters at Gettysburg; wrecked trains at battle of Peach Tree Creek; Petersburg: Confederate dead in trenches; Union lines; interior of Fort Sedgewick; railroad battery; ruined house; first Union wagon train entering Petersburg; Richmond: ruins, including railroad locomotive; the Customs House; gun at Fort Darling; Spotsylvania: Confederate dead of Gen. Ewell's Coprs; Siege of Yorktown: Union battery; siege artillery "in park".
  3. "Slave Pen": men in front of building with sign reading "Price, Birch & Co., Dealers in Slaves" in Alexandria; locomotives in the railroad yard at Nashville; Fort McAllister on the Ogechee River, Ga.; Aiken's Landing where prisoners were exchange, with monitor in river; English Armstrong gun at Fort Fisher, N.C.; Confederate dead at Fort Robinette, Corinth; railroad ties and rails after being torn up; stretcher full of remains of unknown dead, being collected for permanent burial; Union soldiers in trenches; a Confederate redout after capture; wagon train of the 6th Army Corps crossing the Rappahannock on a pontoon bridge below Fredericksburg; building a pontoon bridge at Beaufort, S. C.; pontoon bridge across the Appomatox; pontoon boats and wagons; ruins of the Gallegos flour mill; views of ships: the Monitor; the monitors Cononicus and Onondaga on the James River; men on the deck of the U.S.S. New Hampshire; U. S. government transport Van Hatchie near Chattanooga; gunboat Gen. Grant at Kingston, Ga.; Gunboat Delaware; the Frigate Pensacola; the levee at Vicksburg, Miss.; the U.S.S. Massasoit on the James River.
Subject
  1. Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885
  2. Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872
  3. Ross, John, 1790-1866 > Homes and haunts
  4. Sherman, William T. 1820-1891
  5. United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1864)
  6. United States. Army Colored Infantry Regiment, 334d (1864-1866)
  7. United States. Army. South Carolina Volunteers, 1st (1862-1864)
  8. United States. Army Corps, Sixth
  9. United States. Army of the Potomac
  10. African Americans
  11. African American soldiers > United States
  12. Atlanta Campaign, 1864
  13. Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
  14. Bridges > Virginia
  15. Churches > Virginia
  16. City halls > Georgia > Atlanta
  17. Dead persons
  18. Dwellings > Tennessee
  19. Dwellings > Pennsylvania
  20. Forts & fortifications > Georgia
  21. Forts & fortifications > Virginia
  22. Funeral rites & ceremonies
  23. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
  24. Gunboats > Union
  25. Hospitals
  26. Outdoor cooking
  27. Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864
  28. Piers & wharves > Mississippi > Vicksburg
  29. Railroads
  30. Railroad stations > Georgia > Atlanta
  31. Railroad stations > Tennessee > Nashville
  32. Rivers > Virginia
  33. Slavery > United States
  34. Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864
  35. Turret ships
  36. Warships > Union
  37. Women
  38. Soldiers > United States
  39. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
  40. Atlanta (Ga.)
  41. Charleston (S.C.)
  42. James River (Va.)
  43. Petersburg (Va.)
  44. Rappahannock River (Va.)
  45. Richmond (Va.)
  46. Yorktown (Va.)
  47. United States > History > Battlefields. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  48. United States > History > Casualties. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  49. United States > History > Destruction and pillage. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  50. United States > History > Equipment and supplies. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  51. United States > History > Medical care. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  52. United States > Armed Forces > Military life
  53. United States > History > Campaigns. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  54. United States > History > Naval operations. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  55. United States > History > Transportation. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  56. United States > History > Trench Warfare. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  57. United States > History > Women. > Civil War, 1861-1865
Genre/Form
  1. Albumen photoprints.
  2. Photoprints.
  3. Stereographs.
Call number
  1. MFY Dennis Coll 92-F256
Note
  1. Views are reprints of views published by Anthony before 1873. Includes views published by John C. Taylor, Taylor & Huntington, and the War Photograph & Exhibition Co., all in Hartford Connecticut. Some views stamped on recto: "Patriot Publishing Company." May include views made by Brady & Co., Alexander Gardner and others. Title varies.
  2. Includes one hand-colored view.
Access (note)
  1. Restricted access;
Cite as (note)
  1. Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
Author
  1. Taylor & Huntington, publisher.
Title
  1. The War for the Union [graphic] : photographic war history / Taylor & Huntington.
Imprint
  1. 1861-1865, published 1880?-1891?, one view copyright 1904.
Restricted access
  1. Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at division indicated.
Cite as:
  1. Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Local subject
  1. Hand-colored photoprints.
Added author
  1. E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) Publisher
  2. Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
Research call number
  1. MFY Dennis Coll 92-F256
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