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Photojournalism: A Record of War

Civil War Slide Show

The Civil War Slide Show is composed from photographs taken from Selected Photographs from the Civil War, 1861-1865. Pictures in the slide show will automatically change after 30 seconds. If you wish to move to another slide before 30 seconds have elapsed, click on Next Slide. Captions at the bottom of each photograph link to the bibliographic information. The URL for the slide show is http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/photo/slide1.html.

Photographs in the slide show are:

Photographers

M.B. Brady's new photographic gallery, corner of Broadway and Tenth Street, New York

A rare specimen found on hill above Fort Riley, Kansas] Gardner's Photographic Art Gallery

Military in camp

Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClelland

Bealeton, Va. Noncommissioned officers' mess of Co. D, 93d New York Infantry

City Point, Va. African American army cook at work

Implements of war

Rappahannock Station, Va. Canvas pontoon boat, 50th New York Engineers

Petersburg, Va. Sections of chevaux-de-frise before Confederate main works

Manassas, Va. Confederate fortifications, with Federal soldiers

Unknown location. Parrott gun

Manassas Junction, Va. Soldiers beside damaged rolling stock of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad

Medical care in the Civil War

Fredericksburg, Va. Nurses and officers of the U.S. Sanitary Commission

Washington, D.C. Patients in ward of Harewood Hospital; mosquito nets over beds

Antietam, Md. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing used as a rifle pit

Antietam, Md. Bodies of Confederate dead gathered for burial

Unknown location. Embalming surgeon at work on soldier's body

Assassination aftermath

Washington, D.C. Hanging hooded bodies of the four conspirators; crowd departing