EVB7067395: Mathew Brady portrait lithograph published in 'Photographic Art Journal' in 1851. He had studied art before adopting photography in the early 1840s. By 1845, he had a New York Studio, where he made and exhibited his portraits of famous Americans, including the Senator Daniel Webster and poet Edgar Allan Poe, Brady, Mathew (1823-96) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067398: Elizabeth Van Lew was born into a wealthy Richmond society family, but became an abolitionist during her education in Philadelphia. When Gen. Benjamin Butler learned of her spying from Union escapees, he provided her with a cipher system. She managed over a dozen agents and couriers, including her own African-American servants. After the US Civil War, President Grant rewarded her with appointment as post-mistress of Richmond / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067434: Thomas O'Dea's drawing of the Andersonville Prison was created from memory in 1884. In the center is a aerial overview of military prison surrounded by his eye witness marginal drawings of incidents he experienced at Andersonville. At the bottom is a numbered legend to the 19 small drawings. There is also a legend for numbered details within the larger scene (lithograph), O'Dea, Thomas (fl. 1884) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7066958: US Civil War. Fort Pulaski was damaged by Union artillery during a 112 day siege directed by Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore. After the Battle of Fort Pulaski, the Confederate fortress surrendered on April 11, 1862. The victory extended the Union blockade to include the Savanah / Bridgeman Images
EVB7066961: Scarred cityscape of Charleston, South Carolina, at the end of the US Civil War. The shells of the circular Congregational church are scaffolded and surrounded by rubble and ruins. The tall steeple behind the church belongs to St. Michaels Church, which was the aiming point for Union artillery during the siege. Photo by George Barnard, Barnard, George N. (1819-1902) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7066992: Composite photograph created by Levin Corbin Handy, c. 1902. It is a combination of the head of General Ulysses Grant taken from the famous full length portrait by Egbert Guy Fowx. The horse and man's body, belong to Maj. Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook. The background is a 1862 Union camp in the Shenandoah Valley, Fowx, Egbert Guy (1821-89) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067020: US Civil War. Fort Brady, at Aiken's Landing, on the James River, Army of the James. Four Union soldiers at the bunkered magazine, in the parapet of Fort Brady in 1864. The Union and Confederate armies protected their explosives in bunkers made of logs, earth, and gabions, Brady, Mathew (1823-96) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067027: US Civil War. The Fall of Petersburg and Richmond, March 26-April 2. Dead Confederate soldier lies dead in Fort Mahone, on the Petersburg siege line, April 3, 1865. In the foreground is a 'Chevaux-de-frise', a portable defensive barrier of a central log with projecting wooden spikes / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067039: US Civil War. The Fall of the Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital city, April 2, 1865. View of the Richmond from the Canal Basin after the 'Evacuation Fire' of April 2-3, 1864. The Confederate Capitol building was spared from the fire, and would return to its original role, as the capitol of the state of Virginia / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067054: US Civil War. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses Grant in the McLean's House, at Appomattox, Virginia, April 9, 1865. It was the home of the family of Wilmer McLean, who moved his family to Appomattox Courthouse in 1863, after his farm had served as part of the battle field of the First Battle of Bull Run (First Battle of Manassas), in July 1861. It was said, with temporal inaccuracy, that the Civil War started in McLean's backyard in 1861 and ended in his parlor in 1865. Photo by Timothy O'Sullivan, O'Sullivan, Timothy (1840-82) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067055: US Civil War. General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses Grant in the McLean House, at Appomattox, Virginia, April 9, 1865. This conjectural view of the surrender in the McLean house parlor was commissioned by Wilmer McLean, to make money. It is inaccurate because the attending people were never all in the room at the same time. Also, Cyrus B. Comstock, and Gen. George Meade were not present (lithograph) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067058: President Donald Trump signs an Immigration Proclamation in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Nov. 9, 2018. It declared that asylum seekers must present themselves lawfully at a port of entry. Since the proclamation conflicted with existing US law, the US District Court in San Francisco suspended the proclamation (photo) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067067: US Civil War. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses Grant in the McLean's House, at Appomattox, Virginia, April 9, 1865. This Currier and Ives print shows General Lee and Grant at a small table, where the Lee signs the surrender document. The table is now in the Smithsonian Institution (lithograph), Currier, N. (1813-88) and Ives, J.M. (1824-95) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067070: Major General Winfield Scott Hancock played a critical role in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. With Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, he commanded the center of the Union battle line, which repulsed several Confederate attacks, including Pickets Charge. Photo by E. & H.T. Anthony, Anthony, Edward (1818-88) & Anthony, Henry T. (1814-84) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067086: US Civil War. Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. Equestrian portraits of Union Generals Daniel Sickles and George Meade, commanders of the 'gallant Army of the Potomac', which is shown battling the 'hosts of the rebel Army of the East'. The popular print for a northern audience, exaggerates the 'rout and dispersal ' of the Confederate army which retreated undestroyed (lithograph) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067095: Major General George Thomas, called the 'Rock of Chickamauga' for concentrating scattered Union units at Horseshoe Ridge after the Federal right wing was routed. They fought until the battle ceased at nighttime on Sept. 19, 1863, when they withdrew north, joining the rest of the army in Chattanooga / Bridgeman Images
EVB7067109: US Civil War. Battle of Missionary Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863. Gen. George Thomas' 23,000 soldiers were ordered to attack Confederate trenches at the base of the 2 mile long Missionary Ridge. Once having done so, to escape Rebel fire from above, they sought shelter in the steep sides of the ridge. Without orders, they then scaled to its top and broke the Confederate line by sundown, resulting in Rebel retreat of thirty miles toward Atlanta, Georgia (lithograph) / Bridgeman Images