In Focus

Published: 9/1/20

Civil War Sutlers’ Mall

By: Bob Zeller

Category: Wartime Photography

Union soldiers might have enjoyed some of the comforts of home at this sutler store in Virginia.

Published: 6/1/20

A Deathly Calm

By: Bob Zeller

Category: Antietam

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

By: Bob Zeller

Category: Wartime Photography

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

By: Bob Zeller

Category: Wartime Photography

Unlike most Civil War POWs, some Union soldiers captured at the Battle of First Bull Run didn't endure harsh or inhumane conditions.