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Finding Your Family Civil War Photographs
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The Civil War began in 1861 and lasted until 1865. The was was both a first and a last for many things. It was the last of the great cavalry wars, where men fought on horseback. It was the first of the armored ship wars, and it was the first war to be extensively photographed.
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Engineers of the 8th N.Y. State Militia, 1861
Log hut company kitchen, 1864
Soldiers at rest after drill, Petersburg, Va., 1864.
A regimental fife-and-drum corps
Winter quarters; soldiers in front of their wooden hut
The 26th U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry on parade, Camp William Penn, Pa., 1865.
The 21st Michigan Infantry, a company of Sherman's veterans
Dismounted parade of the 7th New York Cavalry in camp, 1862
Federal cavalry column along the Rappahannock River, Va., 1862
Federal observation balloon Intrepid being inflated. Battle of Fair Oaks, Va., May 1862
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Beauregard, Gen. Pierre
Breckenridge, Lt. Gen. John C
Confederate prisoners captured in the Shenandoah Valley being guarded in a Union camp, May 1862
Other Civil War Photos
Ringgold, Ga., battery at drill
Army blacksmith and forge, Antietam, Md., September 1862
A black family entering Union lines with a loaded cart
A refugee family leaving a war area with belongings loaded on a cart
Black laborers on a wharf, James River, Va.
Allan Pinkerton, chief of McClellan's secret service, with his men near Cumberland Landing, Va., May 14, 1862. (Pinkerton is smoking a pipe.) Photographed by George N. Barnard and James F. Gibson
Scouts and guides for the Army of the Potomac, Berlin, Md., October 1862. Photographed by Alexander Gardner
Constructing telegraph lines, April 1864. Photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
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