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Browse 8,043 civil war dead photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. Dead soldiers lie on the battlefield at Gettysburg, where 23,000 Union troops and 25,000 Confederate troops were killed during the Civil War. July...
- The Series of Events That Led to The Civil War
- The Civil War: from Fort Sumter to Appomattox
- The End of America's Bloodiest Conflict
Though the Civil War officially began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, tensions between North and South had been building for some time. As the country expanded during the 19th century, fierce debates emerged over whether newly added territories should be "slave" or "free." The Missouri Compromise in 1820 attempted to quell the co...
At his inauguration on March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln tried to stop the country from going to war. "We are not enemies, but friends," he said. But nothing could be done. The Civil War officially began roughly a month later, when the newly formed Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston,...
On April 9, 1865, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met at the home of grocer Wilmer McLeannear Appomattox, Virginia. (Ironically, McLean had fled his previous home near Bull Run earlier on in the Civil War to avoid the conflict.) The two generals agreed to terms, and Lee surrendered. "The war is over," Grant said. "The rebels are our countrymen a...
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311. Confederate Dead in a Ditch on the Right Wing - Antietam, MD, September 1862. 418. Union Graves on the Battlefield - Cedar Mountain, VA, August 1862. 537. Dead Federal Soldiers on Battlefield - Gettysburg, PA, July 1863. 262. Dead Soldiers in the Wheatfield Near Emmittsburg Road - Gettysburg PA, July 1863. 544.
Apr 21, 2022 · Updated January 31, 2024. With more than half a million dead in just four years, the Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict and the first to be extensively documented through photography. Colorized Civil War Photos That Bring America’s Deadliest Conflict To Life. View Gallery.
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Nov 10, 2021 · As many as 50,000 died in a single battle. The high death toll particularly hurt the South, which had a smaller population going into the war. Nearly every American lost someone in the war: a friend, relative, brother, son, or father. In fact, the war was so divisive that it split some families completely in two.
Death and the Civil War | Image Gallery. Images from the Civil War Battlefields. Share: The American Civil War was the first major conflict that was photographed extensively,...
Jan 17, 2021 · WARNING: Dead US Civil War soldiers are seen in this photograph. Click Here to Open. This photograph is one of the most famous that was taken during the US Civil War. It is known as “A Harvest of Death” and shows the battlefield at Gettysburg littered with bodies that are waiting for collection and then burial.
