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Credit: Roo72

This Kurz and Allison lithograph depicts a Union Army attack on Fort Donelson

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Credit: Edmund Ferman

The Union plan for Battle of Bull Run involved diversions against Bull Run creek, while McDowell's main effort attempted to flank P. G. T. Beauregard's extended lines. The plan failed to account for Joseph E. Johnston's ability to reinforce Beauregard by rail.

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Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe standing to the right of a Union Army Balloon Corps balloon as it is being inflated.

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Credit: Brian0918

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Credit: Hlj

This map depicting the Battle of Antietam shows Union (blue) attacks on the Confederate (red) lines close to Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 17, 1862.

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Credit: Thuresson

Jesse James grew up in the bitter border warfare of Missouri, joining his brother Frank James in Bloody Bill Anderson's bushwhackers at the age of 16.

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Credit: Bkwillwm

The artist ridicules the government's early efforts to overhaul and augment a somewhat outdated Union fleet to blockade Southern ports and effectively defend against Confederate privateers and blockade runners.

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Credit: Andrei nacu

This map depicts the movements of Sherman's Atlanta campaign in late 1864.

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Credit: Bukvoed

This Union Army artillery piece was serviced by an eight-man gun squad.

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Credit: Pibwl

Island Number Ten was captured by Union ironclad gunboats which cut off Confederate escape routes across the Mississippi River, forcing the surrender of 7,000 rebel troops.

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Credit: Fornax

The third battle flag of the Confederate States of America incorporated the stars and bars, a white field, and a wide red bar.

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Credit: Makthorpe

This depiction of the June 19, 1864 naval engagement between CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge was painted immediately after the battle by Belgian Jean Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager.

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Credit: Shauni

In the days following the Battle of Antietam, Confederate dead lay unburied next to the Hagerstown road and were photographed by Alexander Gardner.

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Credit: Brian0918

In this 1888 Kurz and Allison lithograph, Union troops contest the northern approaches to the fortified city of Vicksburg; the Mississippi River bends southward at upper right

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Credit: Clindberg

This pen and ink map depicts the Battle of Chantilly, which took place on September 1, 1862, in Fairfax County, Virginia and was the concluding battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign

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Credit: Neutrality

John L. Magee created the lithograph Southern Chivalry – Argument versus Club in 1856, depicting Preston Brooks' attack on Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate.

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Credit: Polylerus

St. Albans, Vermont bank tellers being forced to pledge allegiance to the Confederacy during the St. Albans Raid, the northernmost land action of the American Civil War

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Credit: Bkwillwm

A Freedmen's Bureau agent stands between an armed group of Southern whites and a group of freed slaves in this 1868 picture from Harpers' Weekly

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Credit: Inductiveload

The first official flag of the Confederacy, called the "Stars and Bars" was flown from March 5, 1861 to May 26, 1863

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Credit: Masturbius

Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America

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Credit: Brian0918

The "Battle of Spotsylvania—Engagements at Laurel Hill & NY River, Va. May 8 to 18, 1864.", published in 1888 by Kurz & Allison

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Credit: Pibwl

"Map of Hampton Roads and Vicinity." The First Fight of Ironclads. by John Taylor Wood. From The Century Magazine, Vol. XXIX, March., 1885

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Credit: Bkwillwm

Union soldiers at the Battle of the Crater

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Credit: TeVe

Explosion of the Sultana, carrying 2000 Union prisoners of war from Andersonville back to their home. The greatest maritime disaster in American history. Taken from the magazine Harpers Weekly, May 20, 1865

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Credit: Edmund Ferman

Union Army sketch of the Battle of Cross Keys

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Credit: Stanmar

Confederate General Robert E. Lee poses in a late April 1865 portrait taken by Mathew Brady in Richmond, Virginia. Lee's surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, soon before this portrait was taken, marked the end of the American Civil War.

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Credit: Hlj

Confederate Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood division's demonstration against Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg, Second Day.

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Credit: FlickrLickr

Battlefield monument at Gettysburg marking the farthest point reached by Confederates during Pickett's Charge

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Credit: NekoDaemon

Lysander Spooner, libertarian political philosopher and noted abolitionist who published the influential books The Unconstitutionality of Slavery and No Treason

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Credit: Durova

A photograph from the American Civil War showing two African-American soldiers guarding a post near Dutch Gap, Virginia, 1864.

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This Currier and Ives colored lithograph depicts David Porter's Union fleet running underneath the guns of fortified Vicksburg.

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Credit: BrokenSphere

The Mitchel Raiders set a train car on fire in an attempt to set a covered railway bridge ablaze and thwart pursuit, from Deeds of valor; how America's heroes won the Medal of Honor, published in 1901. The event is referred to now as the Great Locomotive Chase.

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