In Focus
Published: 9/1/20
Civil War Sutlers’ Mall
Union soldiers might have enjoyed some of the comforts of home at this sutler store in Virginia.
Published: 6/1/20
A Deathly Calm
The placid façade of Main Street in the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, just a few days after the Battle of Antietam belies the conditions there: thousands of wounded soldiers...
Published: 3/7/20
An Early Image of War
A photo shows the Trapier Mortar Battery on Morris Island just days after it launched shells that inflicted heavy damage on Fort Sumter.
Published: 12/1/19
The First Prisoners of War
Unlike most Civil War POWs, some Union soldiers captured at the Battle of First Bull Run didn't endure harsh or inhumane conditions.
Published: 9/1/19
A Tough Job
View a wartime photo of a lone worker “straightening slight bends in a rail by use of [a] Jack-Screw.”
Published: 7/1/19
Relics of the War’s First Martyr
The blood-spattered uniform of Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first Union officer to die in the Civil War, was displayed at the Metropolitan Fair in New York City in 1864.
Published: 5/1/19
Brady at Work?
In the spring and summer of 1861, as Washington, D.C., filled with tens of thousands of Union soldiers, renowned photographer Mathew B. Brady and his crew visited the army camps,...
Published: 12/1/18
Eyewitnesses to History
A rarely seen photograph of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration outside of the unfinished dome of the U.S. Capitol in March 1861.
Published: 10/1/18
The Sable Arm in Kentucky
In this image, African-American soldiers from the 4th U.S. Colored Artillery conduct a changing of the guard on the parapet of Fort Halleck.
Published: 7/1/18
Shedding Light on a Famous Photo
No one knew who took the famed photograph of Confederate infantrymen pausing on a street in Frederick, Maryland, while on the march ... until now.
Published: 5/1/18
The Chancellors of Chancellorsville
An 1866 photo shows Rev. Melzi S. Chancellor and six members of his family outside Dowdall’s Tavern at Chancellorsville.
Published: 5/1/13
Reunion on Little Round Top
During the 25th anniversary of Gettysburg, former Confederate general James Longstreet is reunited with former Union generals on Little Round Top.
Published: 12/1/11
The Devil and Robert E. Lee
In 1865, Mathew Brady photographed Robert E. Lee outside his Richmond home, unknowingly capturing the word "Devil" scrawled on a nearby brick.