In this, the third installment of our “Civil War Veterans” series, we highlight more photos of former Union and Confederate soldiers made in the postwar years. (View Part 1 here and Part 2 here. All images are courtesy of the Library of Congress.)
Union veterans (left to right) Joseph Chamberlain Hill, John Watt Horn, and William A. McKellip—all former officers in the 6th Maryland Infantry—in a photo taken about 1890.
Union veterans—and members of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) William McCullough Post No. 44, in Belleville, Kansas—gather in the early 20th century.
Members of the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) gather in Cundiff, Texas, around 1900.
Unidentified Civil War veterans of a New York cavalry regiment at a reunion between 1880 and 1900.
A group portrait of Union (GAR) and Confederate (UCV) veterans wearing badges and medals at the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1913.
Left: John W. Pollard, who served under the name Jackson Ridgway in the 83rd U.S. Colored Troops, wears his GAR uniform and medal in a photo made in May 1906. Right: An unidentified African-American veteran in GAR uniform with medals and sword in an image from the early 1900s.
Union veterans of Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, gather with family members at monument to Major General John Reynolds on the Gettysburg battlefield circa 1910.
GAR members—all veterans of the 10th New Hampshire Infantry—gather at Hooksett, New Hampshire, in September 1885.
A group of Union and Confederate veterans gather in front of a monument marking the “high water mark” of Pickett’s Charge on the Gettysburg battlefield, July 2, 1913.
Confederate veterans gather in Roanoke, Alabama, on April 26, 1907.
A group of Confederate veterans from Virginia takes part in a parade in Petersburg on July 4, 1910.
Left: Veterans Timothy Lee (left), 61st Massachusetts Infantry, and former Confederate cavalryman James Hannon shake hands for the camera in July 1887. Right: Veterans William Calvert (left), 77th Pennsylvania Infantry, greets former Maryland Confederate William DeLashmutt at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion.
Left: An unidentified African-American veteran in his GAR uniform poses with two children in an image made circa 1900. Right: A Union veteran from Boston in a photo from the 1890s.
Veterans of the 1st New York Dragoons—plus an unidentified woman—gather in Buffalo, New York, circa 1900.
Confederate veterans and their families at a reunion at Annapolis, Maryland, in November 1913.
Confederate veterans at a reunion at Staunton, Virginia, in 1919.
UCV members from Stonewall Jackson Camp No. 118 gather in Brownwood, Texas, in 1910.
In this 1887 image, veterans of the 57th Massachusetts Infantry gather with former Confederate general William Mahone (center front, with cane) at the site of the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864.
Left: Civil War veteran and amputee Henry A. Seaverns, a member of the GAR post in Scituate, Massachusetts, in the mid-1890s. Right: Three unidentified Civil War veterans in Grand Army of the Republic uniforms with swords in front of a painted backdrop in a photo from the late 1800s.
Left: Veteran Isadore Banor, who served in the 47th Ohio Infantry, poses with his old musket and canteen in the early 1900s. Right: An unidentified Union veteran and fur trapper poses in a photographer’s studio with a number of props in the late 1800s.
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