| THE CIVIL WAR |
| Circa 1865 "Wagons and camera of Sam A. Cooley, U.S. photographer, Department of the South." Wet plate glass negative. |
| James River, Virginia "Army of the James. Butler's dredge-boat, sunk by a Confederate shell on Thanksgiving Day, 1864." Wet plate glass negative. |
| August 1864 "Group of men of Company D, U.S. Engineer Battalion, in front of Petersburg." Wet plate glass negative, photographer unknown. |
| 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. "Cottage of Colonel Nathaniel Michler, U.S. Engineers, at Bryant house." From photographs of the main Eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864 - April 1865. Wet plate glass negative. |
| November 1863. Culpeper, Virginia (vicinity). "Contrabands [runaway slaves]." The man on the right is identified in this photo dated October 1863 in Bealeton, Va., as "John Henry, servant, at headquarters, 3d Army Corps, Army of the Potomac." Wet plate glass negative by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Photographs from the main Eastern theater of war, General Meade in Virginia. |