CONTENTS

   American History PicturePack

Collection E:
Civil War and Reconstruction
  
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
  

PicturePack E01: Background to the Civil War; Fort Sumter ● Map, the United States in 1860 ● The Convention Hall at Charleston, South Carolina ● William Lowndes Yancey (1814-1863) ● John C. Breckinridge (1821-1875) ● Abraham Lincoln, 1860 photograph ● John Bell, Constitutional Union Party candidate ● A map of 1860 election results ● South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession ● Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden (1787-1863) ● A map of secession ● "Passage through Baltimore." ● Washington, D.C. in 1860 ● Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States ● Alexander Stephens,Confederate Vice-President ● The inauguration of Jefferson Davis ● Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861 ● Fort Sumter, before the bombardment ● Major Robert Anderson (1805-1871), U.S. Army ● Major Anderson enters the unoccupied Fort Sumter ● Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893) ● Fort Sumter during the bombardment ● Citizens of Charleston view battle of Fort Sumter 
 

PicturePack E02: The Civil War Begins ● Bedraggled Confederate soldiers ● Troops "serving" their guns for the photographer ● The Baltimore riot of April 19, 1861 ● The U.S. 5th Reserve Regiment being attacked ● A southern Unionist family fleeing north ● A Union artillery lieutenant colonel ● Company K, 4th Georgia Volunteer Infantry ● Giant smooth-bore 15-inch Columbiad cannon ● Men of the 1st Connecticut Artillery practicing ● U.S. General Winfield Scott with his staff ● Map of the Eastern Theater of Operations, 1862 ● Major General Irvin McDowell (1818-1885) ● The first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 ● The ruins of the Stone Bridge over Bull Run ● General Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807-1891) ● General "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863) ● "Bombardment & Capture of the Forts at Hatteras." ● Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles (1802-1878) ● A Confederate vessel, the C.S.S. Sumter ● Raphael Semmes (1809-1877), C.S. Navy ● San Jacinto stops British ship Trent ● U.S. Secretary of State William Henry Seward ● Charles F. Adams, Ambassador to Great Britain ● The bombardment of Port Royal, November 1861 ● Federal forces under General Stevens ● Preparing cotton for gin at Smith’s Plantation.A map of the 1862 western campaigns ● General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) ● The bombardment and capture of Fort Henry ● The U.S. gunboat Cairo ● The Union attack on Fort Donelson ● The battle of Fort Donelson, February 1862 ● Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) ● The battlefield at Shiloh, April 1862 ● Steamboats at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee ● "Farragut’s Fleet Passing Forts...New Orleans."David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870) ● Bird’s-eye view of the city of New Orleans, 1862.Massachusetts-born Benjamin Franklin Butler  
 

PicturePack E03: The Civil War: The Later Eastern War ● General George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) ● General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) ● Confederate fortifications, Centreville, Virginia ● A "Quaker" gun ● Federal supply wharf at Yorktown in 1862 ● An Army of the Potomac encampment ● The balloon Intrepid ● Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac ● Battle between Virginia & Monitor ● Dented turret of Monitor following battle ● The southern gunboat Atlanta ● A Confederate Laird Ram, the Stonewall ● A David-class torpedo boat ● J.E.B. Stuart (1833-1864) ● Lincoln replaced McClellan with General John Pope ● An overturned Federal supply train ● Engine Firefly on a trestle ● Grave markers on the Bull Run battlefield ● A map of Eastern Theater of Operations, 1862-1863 ● Harper's Ferry, West Virginia ● "Burnside's Bridge" over Antietam Creek, Maryland ● Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881) ● Ambrose Powell Hill (1825-1865) ● Dead soldiers, front of Dunker Church, Sharpsburg ● Confederate dead in the Sunken Road at Antietam ● President Lincoln and General George McClellan   
 

PicturePack E04: From the Emancipation Proclamation to Getttysburg ● Lincoln reading Emancipation Proclamation ● Cartoon:showing Lincoln curing illness of slavery ● Freed former slaves coming into the Union lines ● Fugitive African Americans ford Rappahannock ● "Contrabands" at Cumberland Land, Virginia, 1862 ● U.S. recruiting office, Hilton Head, SC ● Guard house & guards; 107th U.S. Colored Infantry ● Company E of 4th U.S. Colored Infantry ● General Henry Wager Halleck (1815-1872) ● Panoramic view of Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1862 ● Confederate fortifications at Marye's Heights ● Artilley destruction in Fredericksburg ● Caissons at Fredericksburg ● Federal field ambulances for transporting wounded ● Joseph Hooker (1814-1879) ● An action during the battle of Chancellorsville ● Skulls of unburied soldiers at Chancellorsville ● Gen. George Gordon Meade (1815-1872) ● Action during the first day of Gettysburg battle ● Confederate General James Longstreet (1821-1904) ● Portrayal of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg ● A dead Confederate sharpshooter in Devil's Den ● Dead men and horses at Gettysburg ● Three Confederate prisoners captured, Gettysburg ● Hospital tents at Gettysburg, July 1863 ● Abraham Lincoln at time of the Gettysburg Address    
 

PicturePack E05: The End of the War, 1863 – 1865 ● A map of Grant’s Vicksburg, Mississippi, campaign.Vicksburg before Grant began his operations ● Lee and Gordon’s Mill on Chickamauga Creek.The battle of Chickamauga ● Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) ● George Henry Thomas (1816-1870) ● General Hooker’s capture of Lookout Mountain.Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) ● Map of Sherman’s march to the sea.General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) ● The battlefield at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia ● John Bell Hood (1831-1879) ● The Confederate lines around Atlanta ● Peachtree Street, Atlanta, after bombardment ● Railroad yards at Atlanta before city’s capture.Ruins of Confederate engine roundhouse in Atlanta ● Sherman’s men tearing up rails.Cartoon showing Union General William T. Sherman ● Cannon on terrace of the Tennessee state capitol ● The city of Columbia, South Carolina 1865 ● Ruins of Charleston, South Carolina ● A 200-pounder (8-inch) Parrott heavy rifle ● The inside of Fort Sumter, September, 1863 ● The interior of Fort Sumter in September 1863 ● A map of the final campaign in Virginia ● Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee ● Grant and his staff hold a council of war ● Confederate dead following battle of Spotsylvania ● General Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor ● Collecting the remains of dead soldiers ● Captain John Winslow & officers of Kearsarge ● The C.S.S. Alabama ● The battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 ● Laborers at quartermaster’s wharf on James River.A Union wagon train at Brandy Station, Virginia ● Phillip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) ● The 13-inch seacoast mortar "The Dictator." ● The battle of the Crater ● Dead Confederate, Petersburg trenches, April 1865 ● A Confederate soldier boy dead in the trenches ● Corey Street, Richmond ● Ruined Richmond following capture in April 1865 ● President Lincoln entering Richmond, Apr. 4, 1865 ● The Wilmer McLean House ● Federal soldiers with stacked arms at Appomattox   
  

PicturePack E06: Military Life in the Civil War ● War: days of waiting and moments of terror ● Card players on the other side ● A Union officer's tent ● A Union fife and drum corps ● Typical winter "permanent" quarters ● Federal winter quarters at Centreville, Virginia ● Union company kitchen at Brandy Station, Virginia ● A sutler's tent ● Mary Tippee, a sutler with the Collis Zoaves ● Sutler's Row in Chattanooga, Tennessee ● A blacksmith shop in the field ● A bridge over the Chickahominy River ● Potomac Creek bridge ● Members of the Christian Commission ● Father Thomas H. Mooney performing Mass ● Virginia docks show material superiority of Union ● Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1816-1892) ● A depot at City Point, Virginia ● The quartermaster's wharf at Alexandria, Virginia ● A deck scene on board the U.S.S. Mendota ● Sailors on board the U.S.S. Mendota ● Young boys saw service in the navy as cabin boys ● A naval blacksmith at work ● A field hospital at Savage Station, Virginia 1862 ● An amputation being performed in a hospital tent ● Wounded Union soldiers convalescing ● Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia ● Nurses and patients at the Armory Square Hospital ● Nurses & officers of the U.S. Sanitary Commission ● Sister M. Joseph of the Sisters of Mercy ● Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross ● Pauline Cushman, a famous Union spy ● Belle Boyd, the most famous Confederate spy ● Point Lookout, Maryland ● A south view of stockade at Andersonville Prison ● Issuing rations at Andersonville Prison ● The execution of Confederate Captain Henry Wirz ● Returned Union prisoner from Civil War prison ● Mathew Brady (1823-1896) ● Brady's mobile photographic darkroom wagon   
  

PicturePack E07: Life in the Civil War: The Home Front ● Armory of Colt’s Fire Arms Manufacturing Company.The wool machine works of Davis and Furber ● "The Albany Contracters .... and their Victim." ● Women filling cartridges at the U.S. Arsenal ● Women making uniforms for Confederate forces ● Recruiting for the Confederate Army in Woodstock ● A recruiting station in New York City ● Enlisting Irish and German immigrants in New York ● "Candidates for the Exempt Brigade." ● Selecting draft numbers, Provost Marshal’s office.Buying a substitute in the North during Civil War ● Draft riots in New York ● Burning "Colored Orphan Asylum." ● The front and back of a "greenback" dollar bill ● A Confederate States of America $100 bill ● Confederate State of Alabama bill for fifty cents ● Confederate refugees departing their homestead ● A Richmond bread riot ● U.S. military authorities feeding starving people ● "Camp of Negro Labor Crew of Quarter Master Dept." ● "Winter in the Country: a Cold Morning." ● Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898) ● The homestead of Daniel Freeman ● Clement L. Vallandigham (1820-1871)  
 

PicturePack E08: The Assassination of Lincoln ● "The Mower" shows Lincoln cutting a "copperhead." ● Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad, February 9, 1864 ● Part of anti-Democratic party campaign poster ● Visibly aged Abraham Lincoln, April 10, 1865 ● John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865) ● Ford's Theater ● Portrayal of the assassination of Lincoln ● John Wilkes Booth fleeing across the stage ● An 1865 reward poster for the conspirators ● Execution of Paine, Atzerodt, Herold, and Surratt ● President Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession   
 

PicturePack E09: Reconstruction, 1865-1876 ● The House of Representatives on January 31, 1865 ● Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the U.S ● Charles Sumner (1811-1876) ● Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) ● "Awkward Collision on Grand Trunk Columbia R.R." ● Interior of slave pens at Alexandria, Virginia ● The Provost Guard in New Orleans ● Freedmen at Richmond, Virginia, April 1865 ● The marriage of an African-American soldier ● Voter registration in the South ● "The first vote." ● "Electioneering in the South." ● First African-American members of Congress ● Blanche Kelso Bruce, U.S. Senator, Mississippi ● Hiram R. Revels, U.S. Senator from Mississippi ● Robert Smalls, Congressman from South Carolina ● Primary school for freedmen at Vicksburg, MS ● The Freedmen’s Union Industrial School.Students in Howard University law library, 1900 ● Issuing rations at a Freedmen’s Bureau.Distributing rations to the destitute in Richmond ● The race riot in New Orleans in July 1866 ● "We Accept the Situation." ● An 1876 voting cartoon ● Two members of the Ku Klux Klan ● A map of the South under Military Reconstruction ● A Thomas Nast cartoon regarding Reconstruction ● "Reconstruction of the South." ● Freedmen as victims of Democratic party, cartoon ● Cartoon about President Johnson’s unpopularity.Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869) ● Formal notice of impeachment of President Johnson ● Summons served on President Andrew Johnson ● Impeachment Committee of the House, 1868 ● Thaddeus Stevens closing impeachment debate, 1868   
 

PicturePack E10: Politics Under Ulysses S. Grant ● 1868 Republican Convention nominates U.S. Grant ● Ulysses S. Grant, the 20th president ● A cartoon about carpetbagging ● NYC African-American parade for 15th Amendment ● Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) ● Nast cartoon, Grant administration corruption ● Broad Street, NYC, September 20, 1873 ● Hard-currency supporters vs. inflationists ● John Brown Gordon (1832-1904) ● Henry Clay Warmoth (1842-1932) ● Cartoon, "Solid South" trampling Constitution ● Horace Greeley (1811-1872) ● Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) ● Map: electoral votes, 1876 election ● A painting of the Electoral Commission of 1877 ● Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886) ● Cartoon about Rutherford B. Hayes' election, 1877