
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865. (Library of Congress)

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America February 22, 1861 to May 10, 1865. (Library of Congress)

Robert E. Lee, March 1864. (Library of Congress)

George B. McClellan, 1861. (Library of Congress)

Ulysses S. Grant, between 1860-1870. (Library of Congress)

Interior sally port from
Fort Sumter. Illustration from Harper’s Weekly Journal of Civilization, Saturday, February 16, 1861.

The Confederate Flag raised at
Fort Sumter following the surrender of Major Anderson, April 16, 1861. (Library of Congress)

Tent life of the 31st Pennsylvania Infantry (later, 82d Pennsylvania Infantry) at Queen’s farm, in the vicinity of Fort Slocum, 1861. (Library of Congress)

Lithograph depicting General Ulysses S. Grant leading a charge on the Rebels at Pittsburgh, Tennessee during the
Battle of Shiloh on April 6-7, 1862. (Library of Congress)

Lookout Mountatin, 1864. Lookout Mountain was crucial in the
Battle of Chattangooga on November 24, 1863. (Library of Congress)

George Pickett’s division comes under Federal rifle fire at the
Battle of Gettysburg as they near the Union lines on Cemetery Hill. (U.S. Army Center of Military History)

Crowd at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 during the dedication of Soldier’s National Cemetery and Lincoln’s
Gettysburg Address. Lincoln in center.

Union general Benjamin F. Butler’s signal tower on the Bermuda Hundred peninsula outside of Richmond, Virginia. (Library of Congress)

Federal picket post in Atlanta, Georgia just before the
Battle of Atlanta of July 22, 1864. (Library of Congress)

The Federal outer line outside of Nashville, Tennesse during the
Battle of Nashville December 15-16, 1864. (Library of Congress)

Confederate military prison at Andersonville, Georgia, August 17, 1864. (Library of Congress)

The McClean House in Appomattox, Virginia, site Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s surrender following the
Battle of Appomattox Courthouse. (Library of Congress)
Civil War Pictures In Articles From History Net Magazines
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