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Collection of views of camps in the Civil War

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Description: 47 views, mostly color lithographs, of prisoner of war camps from the United States Civil War. A typewritten list of names of the camps on 3 leaves is included. Publishers represented include: L. N. Rosenthal and C. Baum of Philadelphia and J.H. Bufford of Boston.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1861-1863
Call number: 105587
Dimensions: approximately 38 x 27 cm
Associated people: Nicholson, John P. (1842-1922)
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Collection of lithographs illustrating the war generals, camp views, battles, etc

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16 colored prints (lithographs) illustrating United States Civil War generals, camp views and battles. 3 of the lithographs have the impring: Cincinnati: Lith. & Publ. by Gibson & Co., the remainder have no imprint information but are likely done by the same company. Some of the lithographs may be hand colored.

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Civil War half-stereo views

Visual Materials

Collection of 114 photographs of American Civil War scenes, primarily in the southern states, that are halves of stereo-view prints. Views depicted include forts, camps, coastal forts, and bridges, and were taken during or immediately after the Civil War. There are several images each of Petersburg, Virginia; Richmond, Virginia; Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Sedgwick, Virginia; City Point, Virginia; Lookout Mountain, Appalachian Mountains; Morris Island, South Carolina; and the Grand Review of the Armies in Washington, D.C. Identified photographers include John C. Taylor, Timothy O'Sullivan, and Brady's National Photographic Portrait Gallery.

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American Civil War research collection

Manuscripts

This collection of American Civil War related photographs and ephemera provides an insight into the biography of Edwin M. Stanton and the research of the Civil War in the late 1920s to early 1950s. The collection includes a copy of Florence Gratiot Bale's "General Grant's Galena Home" (Waukegan, Illinois, 1929); 12 black-and-white photographs (1950) from the series "Service Cameramen Visit Civil War Shrines" issued by the United States Department of Defense; 14 black-and-white photographs by Wilbur G. Kurtz of the Atlanta campaign; 2 black-and-white photographs (1929) of the site of Jefferson Davis's capture; and 17 black-and-white photographs of Edwin M. Stanton's house in Cadiz, Ohio. Also includes a photostat copy of George B. Todd's letter, which contains an important first-hand account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and unbound binder leaves with 35 black-and-white photographs (1933 to 1935) of the sites of the Lincoln assassination and the trial of conspirators, taken by L. C. Handy and Casson studios.

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American Civil War research collection

Manuscripts

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California Civil War Letters

Manuscripts

The group of items consists of transcripts of twelve letters written by soldiers of the California Battalion during their service in the Civil War (these letters were originally printed in the Steamer edition of the Alta California). Sergeant Thomas H. Merry, of Company L, wrote five of the letters; the other seven are anonymous or signed only with initials or a first name. In the letters, the soldiers talk about their trip to Massachusetts, life in camp and their training, their skirmishes with Mosby and his 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, Colonel Charles Lowell, freedmen in Virginia, their defense of Washington, D.C., the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, their dislike of Massachusetts and the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, and the Battle of Cedar Creek. Included with this group of transcripts are a typewritten chronology of the unit's service and lists of soldiers taken prisoner or killed.

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Collection of Civil War photographs including views of City Point and Richmond

Visual Materials

A collection of various Civil War photographs that were bound into an album (now disbound), and were compiled by John P. Nicholson, Civil War veteran and collector. The albumen prints are approximately 10 x 12 1/2 inches, mounted on boards, with a few small, amateur photographs pasted on backs of some boards. The album begins with views of City Point by William Hathaway, including General U.S. Grant's headquarters and other barracks, and civilian men and women aboard a steamboat. Views in Richmond depict Libby Prison, building ruins, and Jefferson Davis' residence. Other subjects are: Lookout Mountain, Tennessee; soldiers and officers; an army camp at Scottstown, Alabama; an army bridge created from boats at Fredericksburg, Virginia (1862); U.S. Colored Troops standing in formation at Camp William Penn, Philadelphia (approximately 1863); Citizens' Volunteer Hospital; and a group of Black and white children, men, and women at "Scott House, opposite Fredericksburg." There are two photographs of illustrations by Civil War artist James E. Taylor depicting the Battle of Vermillion Bayou and Custer's charge through a Cheyenne village, Wyoming (1868). The album is disbound, and four photographs have been matted and housed in Box 2.

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Collection of views of camps in the Civil War

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