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Browse 8,020 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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May 25, 2023 · Many photographs of the Civil War held by the National Archives are not listed here. A list of selected fully digitized series are included below. Separate inquiries about other Civil War photography should be as specific as possible listing names, places, events, and other details.
Nov 10, 2021 · More than 600,000 Northerners and Southerners died in the war, a greater number than all those who had died in all other American wars combined. (The other parts of these photo series: The American Civil War in pictures (part 2), 1861-1865; The American Civil War in pictures (part 3), 1861-1865. As many as 50,000 died in a single battle.
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 22, 2015 · Vivid Images of Civil War Casualties Inspire a Scholar’s Inner Muse. Alexander Gardner’s photography, a record of sacrifice and devastating loss, prompts a new creativity from the show’s...
Macabre photos of battlefield dead can and should do much more than illustrate the horrors of combat. To look at the bloated, inhuman forms is to intrinsically know that, just days earlier, the bearers of those grim visages charged toward their fate full of life.
