The American Civil War brought to life through early photos
Rachel Truman
29 April 2024
From the front line
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1850: The Fugitive Slave Law Convention in New York
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1859: Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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1859: Harriet Stowe Beecher and her family
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1861: The inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
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1861: Fort Sumter after the Confederate attack
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1861: A regimental drill of the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry
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1861: A ruined bridge at the battlefield of Bull Run
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c.1862: The camp of the 153rd New York Infantry
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1862: Union cavalry and field artillery
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1862: A soldier and enslaved people on a South Carolina plantation
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1862: Union guards watch over Confederate prisoners
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1862: Children watch a troop of cavalry
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1862: Abraham Lincoln visits the site of the Battle of Antietam
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1863: A journalists' camp
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1863: The Gettysburg battlefield
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1863: Camp Letterman General Hospital
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1863: Union dugouts on a hillside during the siege of Vicksburg
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c.1893: Freed slaves
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c.1864: Officers and men aboard the Agawam
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c.1864: The Confederate Executive Mansion in Richmond
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1864: Union troops cross Germanna Ford
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1864: Army engineers construct a road
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1864: Tents and cabins in a Union camp
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1864: The Union camp at Atlanta’s City Hall
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c.1864: General Sherman and his staff
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1864: The Potter House, Atlanta
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c.1865: A war-ravaged Charleston
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1865: The ruins of Richmond, Virginia
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1865: John Wilkes Booth
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1865: Troops surround a vehicle carrying Jefferson Davis
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