#CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELD SERIES#
A list of selected fully digitized series are included below. Many photographs of the Civil War held by the National Archives are not listed here. Names of photographers or artists and dates of items have been given when available, and an index to photographers follows the list. Any item not identified as an artwork is a photograph. Photographs of artworks have also been included in the list. Items in the first two parts are arranged under subheadings by date, with undated items at the end of each subheading. Photographs included in this select list have been organized under one of four main headings: activities, places, portraits, and Lincoln's assassination. Brady collection (Series Identifier 111-B), purchased for $27,840 by the War Department in 18, photographs from the Quartermaster's Department of the Corps of Engineers, and photographs from private citizens donated to the War Department. The records include photographs from the Mathew B.
Most are part of the Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer (Record Group 111) and Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs (Record Group 165).
The pictures listed in this select list of photographs are in the Still Picture Branch of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Timothy O'Sullivan, James Gardner, and Egbert Guy Fox were also employed by Brady during the conflict. Gibson at different times managed Brady's Washington studio. Although Brady himself actually may have taken only a few photographs of the war, he employed many of the other well-known photographers before and during the war. Brady is almost a synonym for Civil War photography. Because wet-plate collodion negatives required from 5 to 20 seconds exposure, there are no action photographs of the war.
During the war, dozens of photographers-both as private individuals and as employees of the Confederate and Union Governments-photographed civilians and civilian activities military personnel, equipment, and activities and the locations and aftermaths of battles. The Civil War was the first large and prolonged conflict recorded by photography. View in National Archives Catalog Introduction Study the major actions of the Western Theater from start to finish utilizing this unparalleled collection of maps.Engineers of the 8th New York State Militia in front of a tent, 1861. 2 of our Battle Maps of the Civil War Series, you can follow the course of the war from Fort Sumter to the Surrender at Bennett Place. Now, for the first time in book form, we have collected the maps of some of the most iconic battles of the Western Theater of the Civil War into one volume. Through the decades, the American Battlefield Trust has created hundreds of maps detailing the action at major battles. Other than physically walking across the hallowed battle grounds that the American Battlefield Trust has saved, the best way to illustrate the importance of the properties that we have preserved is through our battle maps. Over the last thirty years the American Battlefield Trust and its members have preserved more than 52,000 acres of battlefield land across 143 battlefields, in 24 states-at sites such as Lexington & Concord, Vicksburg, Yorktown, Shiloh, and Gettysburg. The American Battlefield Trust is the premier battlefield preservation organization in the United States. “I just love those maps that you guys send to me.” It is a phrase that the staff of the American Battlefield Trust hears on a weekly basis and the expression refers to one of the cornerstone initiatives of the organization, mapping the battlefields of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and the American Civil War. From the American Battlefield Trust, the collection of their popular battle maps of the Western Theater of the American Civil War.