Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints - Solving a Civil War Photograph Mystery - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
All images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All Is this photo fact or fiction? The title information on the bottom left corner of the print says “General Grant at City Point,” so the image claims to show General Ulysses S. Grant on horseback, in front of his troops at City Point, Virginia, during the American Civil War. But, once you look closely at the content of the photo, questions begin to surface. Let’s work through the puzzle together, and unravel the mystery. Questions Is that General Grant? The face resembles Grant, but the head joins the body at an odd angle and the uniform seems wrong for the time period. Why is Grant, who was noted for his skill and ease around horses, sitting so rigidly on his mount? Grant’s favorite horse at the time was Cincinnati, but Cincinnati didn’t have a “sock” (white hair) around his left hind ankle as this horse does. And on the subject of appearance, Grant wasn't quite that stout around the middle, was he?
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
About this Collection - Civil War Maps | Collections | Library of Congress
Brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are the detailed battle maps made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss for Generals Lee and Jackson, General Sherman's Southern military campaigns, and maps taken from diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts all available for the first time in one place. Most of the items presented here are documented in Civil War Maps: An Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress, compiled by Richard W. Stephenson in 1989. Civil War Maps contains items from the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Library of Virginia, and the Virginia Historical Society. The maps, charts, and atlases depict battles, troop positions and movements, engagements, and fortifications. In addition to the Hotchkiss Map Collection, the Sherman Map Collection is also presented.
Stonewall Jackson
Review: In true Franklin Springs Family Media fashion, Still Standing: The Stonewall Jackson Story is destined to become a family favorite. Still Standing chronicles the life of a true Christian man brought to fame by his exemplary military acumen in the American Civil War. But it was his faithfulness to the Gospel in his family, with his children, toward his soldiers, and the Sunday School class for Blacks (freemen and slaves) that he started, taught, and supported that, no doubt, earned Thomas Jackson the reward of hearing those precious words, Well done, good and faithful servant, from his King when he crossed over the river and finally rested under the shade of the trees. This important documentary will be used in my family to inspire a new generation to look to General Jackson as a man with flaws, but who followed hard after Christ.
Women and Freedmen's Aid, DBQ: Part A
This question is based on the accompanying documents (1-8). The question is designed to test your ability to work with historical documents. Some of the documents have been edited for the purposes of this question. As you analyze the documents, take into account both the source of each document and any point of view that may be presented in the document. Historical Context: After the Civil War, northern white women volunteered to assist freedmen and women -- as teachers, fundraisers, distributors of relief, and employees of the Freedmen's Bureau -- and sought to mobilize the Federal Government in support of these efforts. Task: Using information from the documents and your knowledge of United States history, answer the questions that follow each document in Part A.
Civil War 150: Civil War Stories, Civil War Battles, Civil War Pictures, Civil War Timeline
Secession Era Editorials Project:
Welcome! You may want to start with our hints and suggestions for using the collection. Users unfamiliar with the partisan newspaper press in the late antebellum period may want to read a short introduction to the partisan press which explains the circumstances under which these documents were first created.
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings, this is the largest black history exhibit ever held at the Library, and the first exhibition of any kind to feature presentations in all three of the Library's buildings. The major presentation in the Jefferson Building, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, explores black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. The items in this exhibit attest to the drama and achievement of this remarkable story.
