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The War for the Union photographic war history

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

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Additional Authors
  • E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) pbl
  • Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
Description
  • 30 stereographs (photoprints) : albumen, some col; 90 x 178 mm. or smaller
  • 90 stereographs (photoprints) : albumen, b&w ;
Summary
  • 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.
  • 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".
  • "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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Albumen photoprints.
  • Photoprints.
  • Stereographs.
Note
  • 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.
  • Includes one hand-colored view.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Cite As (note)
  • Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
Call Number
MFY Dennis Coll 92-F256
OCLC
NYPG92-F256
Author
Taylor & Huntington, publisher.
Title
The War for the Union [graphic] : photographic war history / Taylor & Huntington.
Imprint
1861-1865, published 1880?-1891?, one view copyright 1904.
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at division indicated.
Cite As:
Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
Connect to:
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Local Subject
Hand-colored photoprints.
Added Author
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) Publisher
Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
Research Call Number
MFY Dennis Coll 92-F256
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