Legends, tales, and tons of stories are told about the Civil War. We gathered a collection of 30 rarely seen photos of this heroic moment in America’s history.
Photography taken by Andrew Joseph Russell of the Bermuda Hundred 125-foot tall signal tower.
Virginia.
Union soldiers at a poorly conditioned camp.
Fort Burnham, Virginia.
Edward Paul Doherty, former and leader of the detachment of soldiers that captured and killed John Wilkes Booth.
Virginia, 1865.
Mortar battery No. 4.
Yorktown, Virginia. May, 1862.
The transport Steamer ‘Bridgeport’.
Tennessee River.
Soldiers with a 32-pound howitzer with the Twin Houses in the back.
Fair Oaks, Virginia. 1862.
General Robert Ogden Tyler and the staff of the Artillery Reserve.
Virginia, 1863.
A horseman riding near a pontoon bridge spanning the Potomac River in Berlin, now known as Brunswick.
Maryland, 1861.
A “hot” shot furnace inside the Confederate Army’s Fort Moultrie.
South Carolina, 1860s.
The USS Monitor’s crew.
1866.
Brady and General R. B. Potter with their team.
The Virginia Battle.
Soldiers next to a lone grave after the Battle of Antietam.
Sharpsburg, Maryland. 1862.
Twin Houses that were supposed to be part of a larger home that was never completed.
Fair Oaks, Virginia.
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1862.
Confederate forces carrying carbines and sabers.
Virginia.
The ruins of the Richmond & Danville Railroad depot.
Virginia, 1865.
The Confederate Soldiers’ Home on the grounds of the former residence of Andrew Jackson.
May, 1892.
Members of the Infantry reading the Philadelphia newspaper.
Pennsylvania.
Union officers who ran the penitentiary, part of the Washington Arsenal.
Washington D.C., 1965.
Libby Prison.
Richmond, Virginia.
Folk Hero, John L. Burns.
1869.
The crew on the USS Saugus.
James River, Virginia, 1863.
The 6th Maine Infantry, organized in Portland and mustered in for a three-year enlistment.
July 15, 1861.
The 22nd New York Infantry.
Maryland Heights, 1862.
Two Union Soldiers in their coats chatting outside the log hut.
Virginia Peninsula, 1863.
Federal prisoners captured in the Battle of Bull Run.
1861.
Officers by their quarters near the Signal Tower.
Bermuda Hundred, Virginia.
Artillery crew posing with their gun.
Fort Totten, Washington D.C. 1860s.
Union Soldiers before the two-day-long Battle of Nashville.
December, 1864.
Officers of the 3rd Infantry.
1861.
