I’ve created a short video using photographs from the civil war and and mixed it with a couple of medleys of civil war music recorded almost 100 years ago.
All of the photographs are from the U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.
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Description of photographs:
- Keedysville, Md., vicinity. Confederate wounded at Smith’s Barn, with Dr. Anson Hurd, 14th Indiana Volunteers, in attendance, September 1862.
- Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and forage cap.
- Chickahominy River, Va. Grapevine bridge built May 27-28, 1862, by the 5th New Hampshire Infantry under Col. Edward E. Cross.
- Unidentified young soldier in Union uniform with musket, bayonet, and knapsack.
- Aquia Creek Landing, Va. Embarkation of 9th Army Corps for Fort Monroe, February 1863.
- Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and slouch hat, missing jacket buttons.
- Cedar Mountain, Va. A Confederate field hospital, 1862.
- Unidentified young soldier in New York Zouave uniform.
- Cumberland Landing, Va. Federal encampment April – May 1862.
- Unidentified young soldier in Confederate shell jacket, Hardee hat with Mounted Rifles insignia and plume with canteen and cup.
- Military Bridge across the Chicahominy, June 1862.
- Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform in front of painted backdrop showing military camp.
- Rebel gun in front of Fort Hell, April 1865, a Confederate cannon inside of Fort Sedgwick in Petersburg, Virginia.
- Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform.
- Yorktown, Va. Embarkation for White House Landing, Va.
- Unidentified young sailor in Union uniform.
- Antietam Bridge, September, 1862.
- Unidentified soldier in Confederate shell jacket and slouch hat with object hanging from neck in front of painted backdrop showing waterfall.
- Confederate prisoners at Fairfax Courthouse, June 1863.
- Unidentified girl in mourning dress holding framed photograph of her father as a cavalryman with sword and Hardee hat.
- Hand colored; Tending wounded Union soldiers at Savage’s Station, Virginia, during the Peninsular Campaign, 1862.
- Two unidentified women reading letters.
- James River, Va. Sailors on deck of U.S.S. Monitor; cookstove at left, July 9, 1862.
- Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and civilian, likely his father or older brother.
- Harper’s Ferry, meeting of the Potomac and the Shenandoah, July 1865.
- Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform.
- Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., August 23, 1863.
- Unidentified African American Union soldier with a rifle and revolver in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri.
- Manassas, Virginia. Camp of General Irvin McDowell’s body guard, hand colored photographic print.
- Unidentified soldier in uniform with young woman, probably his wife.
- Secret Service agents, Whitehouse, Va.
- Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform of the 11th Virginia regiment with knapsack and bedroll.
- Dinner time in camp.
- Unidentified woman wearing mourning brooch and displaying framed image of unidentified soldier.
- Confederate artillery near Charleston, S.C.
- Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Company E, 12th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers hat.
- Confederate prisoners at Belle Plain Landing, Va., captured with Johnson’s Division, May 12, 1864.
- 1863, Interior view of Fort Sumter showing ruins and explosion.
