| THE CIVIL WAR |
| June 20, 1864. Petersburg, Virginia (vicinity) "The execution of Sergeant William Johnson, Negro soldier, at Jordan's farm. Hanged for Desertion and an Attempt to Outrage the Person of a Young Lady at the New-Kent Courthouse." (Supposedly he insulted a white woman and was made an example of to other soldiers who might be considering desertion; the outcome was not what the Federal Army had hoped for.) Wet plate glass negative by Timothy H. O'Sullivan |
| July 7, 1865. "Washington, D.C. Hanging hooded bodies of the four conspirators; crowd departing." Lincoln assassination conspirators Mary Surratt, Lewis Payne, David Herold and George Atzerodt shortly after their execution at Fort McNair. Wet plate glass negative by Alexander Gardner |
| Mobile, Alabama, Circa 1901 "Duncan Place and Semmes Monument." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
| January 1, 1863. "Contrabands coming into camp -- arrival of Negro family in the Union lines." This image, half of a stereograph pair, was turned into a sketch by the artist Alfred Waud and appeared in the Jan. 31, 1863, issue of Harper's Weekly over the caption " An arrival in Camp -- under the Proclamation of Emancipation." Wet plate negative by David B. Woodbury. |
| February 1864 "Brandy Station, Virginia. Tent of A. Foulke, sutler, 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery." Wet plate glass negative by James F. Gibson. |
