Infantrymen Cross the River, 1863 The Best Civil War Photos LIFE magazine via drtuesdaygjohnson

Infantrymen Cross the River, 1863

The Best Civil War Photos

LIFE magazine

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USS Brooklyn (1858) was a sloop-of-war authorized by the U.S. Congress and commissioned in 1859. Brooklyn was active in Caribbean operations until the start of the American Civil War at which time she became an active participant in the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. more on wiki jiffysquid: Circa 1897 aboard the U.S.S. Brooklyn. “Evening amusements. A little game.” 8x10 glass negative by Edward Hart, Detroit Publishing Co. (via A Little Game: 1897 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

USS Brooklyn (1858) was a sloop-of-war authorized by the U.S. Congress and commissioned in 1859. Brooklyn was active in Caribbean operations until the start of the American Civil War at which time she became an active participant in the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.

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jiffysquid:

Circa 1897 aboard the U.S.S. Brooklyn. “Evening amusements. A little game.” 8x10 glass negative by Edward Hart, Detroit Publishing Co.

(via A Little Game: 1897 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

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“Improvement in Cartridges for Cannon” Drawing from Willis E. Moore’s patent for an “Improvement in Cartridges for Cannon, etc.,” April 28, 1863.National Archives, Records of the Patent and Trademark Office

“Improvement in Cartridges for Cannon”


Drawing from Willis E. Moore’s patent for an “Improvement in Cartridges for Cannon, etc.,” April 28, 1863.

National Archives, Records of the Patent and Trademark Office

Lookout Mountain is located at the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Georgia, the northeast corner of Alabama, and along the southern border of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Lookout Mountain, along with Sand Mountain to the northwest, makes up a large portion of the southernmost end of the Cumberland Plateau. The summit, called “High Point”, is located just east of Thompsonville in Walker County, Georgia, and has an elevation of 2,392 feet (729 m) above sea level.  more on wiki liquidnight: View of Umbrella Rock, Lookout Mountain Chattanooga, Tennessee (vicinity), 1864 [From the Library of Congress] View from the top of Lookout Mountain, overlooking Chattanooga - February, 1864, by George N Barnard - see full size

Lookout Mountain is located at the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Georgia, the northeast corner of Alabama, and along the southern border of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Lookout Mountain, along with Sand Mountain to the northwest, makes up a large portion of the southernmost end of the Cumberland Plateau. The summit, called “High Point”, is located just east of Thompsonville in Walker County, Georgia, and has an elevation of 2,392 feet (729 m) above sea level. 

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View of Umbrella Rock, Lookout Mountain

Chattanooga, Tennessee (vicinity), 1864

[From the Library of Congress]

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View from the top of Lookout Mountain, overlooking Chattanooga - February, 1864, by George N Barnard - see full size

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Same way it was done aboard ship for many many years.Note Zouave (RT foreground) tuesday-johnson: ca. 1861-65, “Hospital [amputation] Scene at Fortress Monroe, Va.”, George Stacy via the Library of Congress, Stereographic Cards Collection

Same way it was done aboard ship for many many years.
Note Zouave (RT foreground)

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1861-65, “Hospital [amputation] Scene at Fortress Monroe, Va.”, George Stacy

via the Library of Congress, Stereographic Cards Collection

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tuesday-johnson: ca. 1865-70, [Pvt. Samuel H. Decker, Company I, 4th US artillery] Civil War veteran Samuel Decker designed and built his own prosthetics after loosing his limbs in combat. With them he could eat and write with relative ease. Decker was made Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives after recovering from his injury. via the Otis Historical Archives at National Museum of Health & Medicine on Flickr  

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1865-70, [Pvt. Samuel H. Decker, Company I, 4th US artillery]

Civil War veteran Samuel Decker designed and built his own prosthetics after loosing his limbs in combat. With them he could eat and write with relative ease. Decker was made Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives after recovering from his injury.

via the Otis Historical Archives at National Museum of Health & Medicine on Flickr  

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tuesday-johnson: ca. 1861, “In defense of the Union and the Constitution”, P.S. Duval & Son via the Library of Congress, Popular Graphic Arts Collection

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1861, “In defense of the Union and the Constitution”, P.S. Duval & Son

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Ken Burns’ Civil War episode 1 on NH public TV.  I know what I’m doing for the next 2 hours.

It’s been very odd, a bit of a culture shock really, growing up Washington DC and moving to Maine.  DC is a Civil War enthusiasts dream town…  Manassas an hour away, Antietam 2 hours north, Fredericksburg 2 hours south, Harpers Ferry an hour and change away, Gettysburg a couple hrs north, and well, “other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?” (Ford’s Theatre) right downtown.

DC/MD/VA is a very Civil War oriented cultural region.  It was the metaphorical front of the war, tho perhaps not always the center of battle. Southern Maryland was the site of one of the War’s more notorious prison camps.  Not to mention all the famous Civil war folks that called it home. 

We learned all this shit in school, did numerous field trips to all of them at least once, and even returned on boring weekends with cars full of similarly impulsive friends. 

Then I move up here to Portland, Maine.  Other than prep school nebbish turned soldier, Joshua Chamberlain, the American Civil War might as well have been happening in Korea.

We always used to say, “DC isn’t the south, but you sure can see it from here.”  To these Maine folks, I might as well be from Georgia. 

New England is the land of the Revolution, and apparently a lot of that shit stared in Boston, from what I hear-tell, y’all… Ayuh.

mpdrolet: Officers of USS Hunchback, c.1860s Mathew B. Brady USS Hunchback was a side-wheel, steam-powered gunboat used by the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

mpdrolet:

Officers of USS Hunchback, c.1860s

Mathew B. Brady

USS Hunchback was a side-wheel, steam-powered gunboat used by the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

Don’t be fooled, he’s a killer.  He waits until you’re doubled over laughing at his cute little pants, then he rams those drumsticks in your eye sockets. tuesday-johnson: ca. 1861, P.H. Martin, R.W. Addis via the Library of Congress

Don’t be fooled, he’s a killer.  He waits until you’re doubled over laughing at his cute little pants, then he rams those drumsticks in your eye sockets.

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1861, P.H. Martin, R.W. Addis

via the Library of Congress

Frigate USS Merrimack (1856-1861)Line engraving published in “Harper’s Weekly”, 1861, as part of the larger print seen in Photo # NH 59236. It depicts USS Merrimack (incorrectly spelled “Merrimac”) under repair at the Norfolk Navy Yard, circa early 1861. USS Merrimack, a 4636-ton steam frigate, was built at the Boston Navy Yard. Commissioned in February 1856, she made her initial deployment to European waters, visiting ports in England, France and Portugal before returning to the U.S. in early 1857. Following repairs, in October 1857 Merrimack was sent around South America to become flagship of the Pacific Squadron, a role she played until November 1859. Completing this cruise at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, the frigate decommissioned in February 1860. Merrimack was still there, receiving repairs to her troublesome machinery, when the state of Virginia seceeded from the Union in mid-April 1861. In an effort to make her unusable to the southern cause, Federal forces burned and sank Merrimack as they withdrew from the Norfolk Navy Yard on 20 April 1861. The Confederates subsequently salvaged the ship and converted her to an armored casemate ironclad. Commissioned as CSS Virginia in February 1862, the following month she made history in combat against Union warships in the Hampton Roads area.

Frigate USS Merrimack (1856-1861)

Line engraving published in “Harper’s Weekly”, 1861, as part of the larger print seen in Photo # NH 59236. It depicts USS Merrimack (incorrectly spelled “Merrimac”) under repair at the Norfolk Navy Yard, circa early 1861.

USS Merrimack, a 4636-ton steam frigate, was built at the Boston Navy Yard. Commissioned in February 1856, she made her initial deployment to European waters, visiting ports in England, France and Portugal before returning to the U.S. in early 1857. Following repairs, in October 1857 Merrimack was sent around South America to become flagship of the Pacific Squadron, a role she played until November 1859. Completing this cruise at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, the frigate decommissioned in February 1860.

Merrimack was still there, receiving repairs to her troublesome machinery, when the state of Virginia seceeded from the Union in mid-April 1861. In an effort to make her unusable to the southern cause, Federal forces burned and sank Merrimack as they withdrew from the Norfolk Navy Yard on 20 April 1861. The Confederates subsequently salvaged the ship and converted her to an armored casemate ironclad. Commissioned as CSS Virginia in February 1862, the following month she made history in combat against Union warships in the Hampton Roads area.

USS Congress (1842-1862) (right)andUSS Susquehanna (1850-1883) (left distance)Oil painting by DeSimone, depicting the ships at Naples in 1857.Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. USS Congress, a 1,867-ton sailing frigate, was built between 1839 and 1842 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine. Commissioned in May 1842, she made a Mediterranean cruise in that year and into 1843, then served off the South American east coast until early 1845. After a refit, she was sent to become flagship of the Pacific Squadron, remaining there until mid-1848. During that cruise, Congress took an active role in the war with Mexico. From June 1850 until June 1853, the frigate served as flagship of the Brazil Squadron. Congress next deployed to the Mediterranean Sea for two years’ duty as flagship, beginning in June 1855 and concluding in November 1857. On her next assignment, from 1859 until mid-1861, she was again the Brazil Squadron flagship.The outbreak of the Civil War brought Congress back to U.S. waters, where she spent her remaining days. She joined the blockade of the Confederacy’s Atlantic coast in September 1861. On 8 March 1862, while anchored off Newport News, Virginia, USS Congress was attacked by the ironclad CSS Virginia. After suffering heavy casualties in a one-sided action with a opponent that was virtually invulnerable to her guns, the veteran frigate was forced to surrender. She was subsequently destroyed by fire and the explosion of her powder magazine.

USS Congress (1842-1862) (right)
and
USS Susquehanna (1850-1883) (left distance)

Oil painting by DeSimone, depicting the ships at Naples in 1857.
Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

USS Congress, a 1,867-ton sailing frigate, was built between 1839 and 1842 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine. Commissioned in May 1842, she made a Mediterranean cruise in that year and into 1843, then served off the South American east coast until early 1845. After a refit, she was sent to become flagship of the Pacific Squadron, remaining there until mid-1848. During that cruise, Congress took an active role in the war with Mexico.

From June 1850 until June 1853, the frigate served as flagship of the Brazil Squadron. Congress next deployed to the Mediterranean Sea for two years’ duty as flagship, beginning in June 1855 and concluding in November 1857. On her next assignment, from 1859 until mid-1861, she was again the Brazil Squadron flagship.

The outbreak of the Civil War brought Congress back to U.S. waters, where she spent her remaining days. She joined the blockade of the Confederacy’s Atlantic coast in September 1861. On 8 March 1862, while anchored off Newport News, Virginia, USS Congress was attacked by the ironclad CSS Virginia.

After suffering heavy casualties in a one-sided action with a opponent that was virtually invulnerable to her guns, the veteran frigate was forced to surrender. She was subsequently destroyed by fire and the explosion of her powder magazine.

mudwerks: cp0970 (by Otis Historical Archives Nat’l Museum of Health & Medicine) SCOTT, PEMBROKE GUNSHOT WOUND OF SCALP AND FRACTURE OF OUTER TABLE. PVT Company D 198 PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Wounded at GRAVELY RUN, VA - 29 MAR 1865 Dr RB BONTECOU, HAREWOOD HOSPITAL, WASH. DC.

mudwerks:

cp0970 (by Otis Historical Archives Nat’l Museum of Health & Medicine)

SCOTT, PEMBROKE

GUNSHOT WOUND OF SCALP AND FRACTURE OF OUTER TABLE.

PVT Company D 198 PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS

Wounded at GRAVELY RUN, VA - 29 MAR 1865

Dr RB BONTECOU, HAREWOOD HOSPITAL, WASH. DC.

Regulations for the Navy of the Confederate States 1862

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tuesday-johnson: ca. 1861, Federal steam frigate Pensacola at Alexandria, Va. Photograph by James F. Gibson. via the Library of Congress, Civil War Photograph Collection

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1861, Federal steam frigate Pensacola at Alexandria, Va. Photograph by James F. Gibson.

via the Library of Congress, Civil War Photograph Collection