Civil War Photographs & Pictures

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865. (Library of Congress)

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America February 22, 1861 to May 10, 1865. (Library of Congress)

Robert E. Lee, March 1864. (Library of Congress)

George B. McClellan, 1861. (Library of Congress)

Ulysses S. Grant, between 1860-1870. (Library of Congress)

Interior sally port from Fort Sumter. Illustration from Harper’s Weekly Journal of Civilization, Saturday, February 16, 1861.

The Confederate Flag raised at Fort Sumter following the surrender of Major Anderson, April 16, 1861. (Library of Congress)

Tent life of the 31st Pennsylvania Infantry (later, 82d Pennsylvania Infantry) at Queen’s farm, in the vicinity of Fort Slocum, 1861. (Library of Congress)

Federal cavalry at Sudley Ford during the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), July 1861. (Library of Congress)

The First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), July 21, 1861. (Library of Congress)

Lithograph depicting General Ulysses S. Grant leading a charge on the Rebels at Pittsburgh, Tennessee during the Battle of Shiloh on April 6-7, 1862. (Library of Congress)

The Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), September 17, 1862. (Library of Congress)

Lookout Mountatin, 1864. Lookout Mountain was crucial in the Battle of Chattangooga on November 24, 1863. (Library of Congress)

Lithograph depicting the Battle of Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863. (Library of Congress)

A harvest of death following the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg, July 1863. (National Archives)

George Pickett’s division comes under Federal rifle fire at the Battle of Gettysburg as they near the Union lines on Cemetery Hill. (U.S. Army Center of Military History)

Crowd at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 during the dedication of Soldier’s National Cemetery and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Lincoln in center.

Union general Benjamin F. Butler’s signal tower on the Bermuda Hundred peninsula outside of Richmond, Virginia. (Library of Congress)

Lithograph depicting the Battle of the Wildnerness, May 5-7, 1864. (Library of Congress)

Photograph of the 1st Massachusetts burying the dead after the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 8-21, 1864. (Library of Congress)

Federal picket post in Atlanta, Georgia just before the Battle of Atlanta of July 22, 1864. (Library of Congress)

The Battle of Mobile Bay August 5, 1864. (Library of Congress)

Engraving depicting Sherman’s March to the Sea November 15 to December 21, 1864. (Library of Congress)

The Federal outer line outside of Nashville, Tennesse during the Battle of Nashville December 15-16, 1864. (Library of Congress)

Confederate military prison at Andersonville, Georgia, August 17, 1864. (Library of Congress)

The McClean House in Appomattox, Virginia, site Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s surrender following the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse. (Library of Congress)