Yorktown, 
 
 Fredericksburg, 
 Gettysburg, 
 
 Antietam, Atlanta, 
 
 Petersburg, Chattanooga, 
 
 Richmond, Nashville. 
 
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 Views made by Government Photographers during the Great War. 
 CATALOGUE OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC WAR VIEWS. 
 
 Taken by the U. S. Government Photographers, M. B. Brady and Alex. Gardner, during the great 
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 This series of pictures are ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS taken during the war of the Rebellion. It is more than a 
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 than twenty-five years, only a fading memory, cherished, it is true, and often called up from among the dim pict- 
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 Catalogue of Original Photographic War Views. 
 
 Taken by the U. S. Government Photographers, M. B. Brady and Alex. Gardner, during the great 
 war of 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865. 
 
 1877. General W. S. Hancock. 
 1879. General Nelson A. Miles. 
 
 297. The 150th Penn. Infantry, March, 1863. Regiment 
 in L.ine, Company Front. 
 
 341. General Judson Killpatrick, September, 1863. 
 
 342. General Alfred Fleasonton, September, 1863. 
 
 382. Generals Franklin, Barry, Slocumb, Newton, and 
 others, Yorktown. 1862. 
 
 1 189. The Marshall House, Alexandria, Ta. 
 
 Scene of the assassination of Colonel B. E. Ellsworth, Comman- 
 der of the N. Y. Zouaves. He was shot and instantly killed by 
 Jackson, the landlord, for pulling down a Rebel flag from the flag- 
 staff on the roof. Colonel Ellsworth's death was immediately 
 avenged by Sergeant Brownell of his Zouaves, who shot and bayo- 
 netted Jackson almost at the same moment that Jackson shot 
 Colonel Ellsworth ; their dead bodies fell within three feet of each 
 other. This occurred on May 24, 1861. 
 
 2296. Slave Pen, Alexandria, Va. 
 
 Exterior view of the famous, or rather, the infamous slave pen. 
 People of this generation can hardly make it seem possible that 
 such an " institution " was ever tolerated under the stars and 
 stripes, in this "land of the free." Read the inscription on that 
 sign over the door : " Price, Birch & Co., Dealers in Slaves." 
 
 363. The Siege of Yorktown, Ta. 
 
 In the Spring of 1862. the Army of the Potomac laid siege to 
 Yorktown, Va. Many heavy batteries were planted. This is 
 Battery No. 1, on the Union right. It consists of five 100-pound, 
 and two 200-pound Parrott guns. It was the heaviest battery of 
 artillery ever mounted in the world, up to that time. It threw 
 900 pounds of iron at one broadside. It was planted and manned 
 hy Company " B," First Connecticut Heavy Artillery. 
 
 375. The Siege of Yorktown, Va. 
 
 In the early Spring of 1862, the Army of the Potomac laid a very 
 heavy siege to Yorktown, Va. Immense batteries of enormous 
 guns and mortars were planted all along the line by the First Con- 
 necticut Heavy Artillery. This is a battery of 13-inch sea-coast 
 mortars. 
 455. Confederate Fortifications, Yorktown, Ya. 
 
 When the Rebels evacuated Yorktown, they destroyed as many 
 of their cannon as possible. This shows the remains of a heavy 
 gun which was purposely bursted by them. Fragments of the 
 gun strew the ground, together with shell and grape shot. The 
 soldiers seen in the fort are Union Zouaves. 
 
 1914. Encampment at Cumberland Landing, Ya. 
 
 The camps of the Army of the Potomac covered thousands and 
 thousands of acres. This is a picturesque view of a camp at 
 Cumberland Landing, on the Pamunky River, Va., in May, 1862. 
 
 383. A Group of ' Contrabands." 
 
 One of the common and characteristic scenes in the Union 
 army during the war was a group of "contrabands," happy and 
 thankful if permitted to remain under the protection of " Massa 
 Linkum's Soldiers." Here the photographer shows us such a 
 group. 
 468. Savage Station, Va., June 27, 1862. 
 
 This was the Headquarters Army of the Potomac, just at the 
 opening of the seven days' fight. At this station vast amounts of 
 rations, forage, ammunition and hospital stores were distributed 
 for the use of the troops. This station fell into the hands of the 
 enemy together with many of our ick and wounded soldiers 
 during the seven days' battles. 
 
 435. Capt. J. C. Tidball and Officers, near Fair Oaks, 
 
 June, 1862. 
 
 436. Gen. George Stoneman and Staff, near Fair Oaks, 
 
 June, 1862. 
 
 61. " When Will the Army Move." Discussing the 
 probabilities of an advance, March 28, 1864. 
 
 131. Headquarters Army of the Potomac, Brandy 
 Station, Va., April, 1864. 
 
 216. Culpepper, Va., September, 1863. 
 
 491. A Field Hospital Scene. 
 
 During a battle " field hospitals " are established as near as 
 possible to the line of battle. This view gives a glimpse of the 
 field hospital at Savage Station, Va., during the battle of June 27, 
 1862. The wounded are brought in by the hundreds and laid on 
 the ground. The surgeons are busy dressing their wounds. 
 
 471. Fair Oaks Station, Va. 
 
 Here is where the battle raged hottest in June, 1862. In the 
 rear of the battery of howitzers which is seen in the foreground, 
 can be seen the left of Sickle's brigade in line of battle. Near 
 the twin houses, seen still further in the rear, the bodies of over 
 400 Union soldiers were buried after the battle. 
 
 2348. Professor L,owe in his Balloon. 
 
 During the Peninsula Campaign in 1862, the army balloon was 
 a valuable aid in the signal service. This view shows Professor 
 Lowe up in his balloon watching the battle of Fair Oaks. He can 
 easily discern the movements of the enemy's troops, and give 
 warning to our Generals how to head them off. The men at the 
 ropes permit the balloon to rise to whatever elevation he desires 
 and they then anchor it to a tree. 
 
 431. 
 
 " Flying Artillery," as it is sometimes called, isabattery of light 
 artillery (usually 10-pounder rifle guns,) with all hands mounted. 
 In ordinary light artillery the cannoneers either ride on the gun- 
 arriage or go afoot. In "flying artillery" each cannoneer has a 
 torse. This permits very rapid movements of the battery. "Fly- 
 Qg artillery" usually serves with cavalry. This is Gibson's bat- 
 
 A Battery of "Flying Artillery. 
 
 horse. 
 
 ing artillery' 
 
 tery("C,"3dU. 
 
 914. 
 
 lally serves with cavalry. 
 
 ' ) near Fair Oaks, June, 1862. 
 
 Unburied Dead on Battlefield. 
 
 (Numbers 914 and 916 are entirely different scenes.) 
 This photograph was made several months after the battle, on 
 the field at Games' Mills, Va. At the time of the fight our troops 
 were obliged to abandon the field and leave the dead unburied. 
 The skulls and skeleton remains of some of our unknown heroes 
 are here seen on the spot where they gave up their lives for our 
 country. In the background can be seen the earthworks where, 
 probably, was stationed the battery these soldiers were trying to 
 capture when they were killed. 
 
 916. Unburied Dead on Battlefield. 
 
 This photograph was made several months after the battle, on 
 the field at Games' Mills, Va. At the time of the fight our troops 
 were obliged to abandon the field and leave the dead unburied. 
 The skulls and skeleton remains of some of our unknown heroes 
 are here seen on the spot where they gave up their lives for our 
 country. 
 2351. Field Telegraph Station. 
 
 It was often necessary to establish a telegraph service between 
 different points in our lines very hurriedly. This view shows 
 one of the characteristic field telegraph stations. An old piece ol 
 canvas stretched over some rails forms the telegrapher's office, 
 and a " hard-tack " box is his telegraph table; but from such a 
 rude station messages were often sent which involved the lives 
 of hundreds and thousands of soldiers.
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 756. Our Boys in the Trenches. 
 
 This view will remind every soldier of the old times. Who 
 has not been in the trenches? The earthwork, the pieces of 
 shelter tent and boughs of trees stretched over to break the rays 
 of the burning sun, the boys in the trench watching and waiting; 
 the outlook across the little valley to the enemy's lines. It is like 
 living the past over again to study this view. 
 
 762. Destruction of a Bailroad Bridge. 
 
 Both armies had a reckless habit of leaving the roads and 
 bridges in a condition which ought not to have been permitted by the 
 selectmen of the towns through which the army passed. This rail- 
 road bridge is so badly used up that there is no reasonable expec- 
 tation that the trains can make schedule time for some days. 
 
 918. Collecting Bemains of the Dead. 
 
 This is a ghastly view showing the process of collecting the re- 
 mains of Union soldiers who were hastily buried at the time of 
 the battle. This is a scene on the battlefield months after the 
 battle, when the Government ordered the remains gathered for 
 permanent burial. The grinning skulls, the boot still hanging on 
 the fleshless bones, the old canteen on the skeleton, all testify to 
 the hasty burial after the battle. Looking on this scene you can 
 easily understand why, in all National Cemeteries, there are so 
 great a number of graves marked " Unknown." These are the 
 " unknown " heroes of the war, who " died that our Nation might 
 live." 
 1084. Interior of Fort Sedgwick. 
 
 Fort Sedgwick on the Petersburg line was nicknamed by the 
 troops " Fort Hell," because the Rebel shot and shell was rained 
 into it so constantly and fiercely. This glimpse of the bomb-proof 
 
 nrters of the garrison gives an idea of the unpleasantness of the 
 as a place of residence during the early days of 1865. The 
 boys, however, succeeded in extracting considerable comfort from 
 life, even here. The rough chimney with the old pork barrel for 
 a chimney pot, leads down underground to a Tittle fire-place 
 around which many a song was sung or storjt told, even while 
 Death was holding his carnival just outside. 
 
 1O62. The Union Line Before Petersburg. 
 
 From among a large number of views of the Petersburg hues, 
 we select this as one which gives, perhaps, a better idea of our lines 
 at Petersburg than any other view we have of them. First is seen 
 the line of sharpened spikes or abbatis placed all along in front 
 of the works to delay the enemy (in case of a charge) within short 
 range of our guns. This moment of delay necessary to tear away 
 this abbatis is deadly to the charging column. Then back of the 
 abbatis the line of breastworks can be seen stretching away in 
 the distance Behind the breastworks is seen the r^"<;h made 
 huts of the troops who defend the line. 
 
 831. The Thirteen-inch Mortar " Dictator." 
 
 This large sea-coast mortar is mounted on a special flat-car 
 made very strong for this purpose. This mortar-car is on General 
 Grant's Military Railroad, at Petersburg. The car is readily 
 moved along the line and the mortar is fired whenever required ; 
 it is thus made very effective and annoying to the enemy, for it is 
 something like the Irishman's flea, " when they put their hand on 
 it, it aint there ; " in other words, when they turn the fire of their 
 batteries on the " Dictator." our boys hitch on to the car and run 
 it along out of the line of fire and commence pegging away again. 
 By the time the "Johnnies" find out where the "Dictator" is 
 and get the range to smash it, "it aint there" again; the boys run 
 it along to a new stand for business. 
 
 1171. Bailroad Battery Before Petersburg. 
 
 This is another battery on General Grant's Military Railroad, 
 operated the same as the mortar "Dictator" shown in view 
 No. 831. The heavy cannon is mounted on a very strong, special- 
 made car, protected with a roof of railroad iron. The car is 
 readily moved along the line and the cannon is fired whenever 
 required ; it is thus made very effective and annoying to the 
 enemy, for it is something like the Irishman's flea. " when they 
 put their hand on it, it aint there ; " in other words, when they 
 turn the fire of their batteries on the Railroad Battery, our boys 
 hitch on to the car and run it along out of the line of fire, and 
 commence pegging away again. By the time the "Johnnies" 
 find out where the Railroad Battery is, and get the range to 
 smash it, " it aint there" again the boys run it along to a new 
 stand for business. 
 
 259. General Meade's Headquarters at Gettysburg. 
 
 This little house was the Headquarters of the Union army dur- 
 ing that terrible battle. On the third day of the battle this house 
 was in direct range of the fearful artillery fire rained by the 
 Rebels on the Union lines just previous to Pickett's great charge. 
 The horses of General Meade's aides were hitched to the fence and 
 trees near the house. Sixteen of these horses were killed during 
 the artillery fire. Dead bodies of horses are seen in the road and 
 field near the house and under the trees. 
 
 1O47. "Winter Quarters of the Engineer Corps. 
 
 The Engineer Corps were made up of skilled mechanics, bridge 
 builders, etc., etc., and their winter quarters on the lines before 
 Petersburg during the winter of 1864 1865, made by far the 
 handsomest, most attractive camp in the Army of the Potomac. 
 This is a View of Colonel Spaulding's quarters. Pine boughs have 
 been interwoven into a handsome design for the front entrance. 
 Over the entrance is the well-known Engineer Corps badge woven 
 with the same material. Pieces of canvas are stretched over the 
 ridge-pole, and this completes the Regimental Headquarters. 
 Colonel Spaulding stands in the doorway. 
 
 1O51. Bomb-proof Bestaurant on the Petersburg line. 
 
 Who but a " Yank " would think of starting a " store " or restau 
 rant on the line of battle where shot and shell are constantly fall- 
 ing? This is a bomb-proof restaurant on the line at Petersburg. 
 'The sign over the door "Fruit A Oyster House," looks as though 
 it might have been "captured" by the proprietors from some 
 regular eating house. 
 
 6177. A Dead Confederate Soldier. 
 
 This view was taken in the trenches at Petersburg, April 2, 1865* 
 just after the Rebels were driven out of their works. It shows a 
 dead Confederate soldier just as he fell. He was hit in the head with 
 a piece of shell. His head is partly shot away and his brains are 
 scattered about in the mud. His blanket was carried in the old 
 familiar way, twisted together, tied at the ends, and slung across 
 his shoulder. 
 
 345. Church of the Engineer Corps Before Petersburg. 
 
 The Engineer Corps were made up of skilled mechanics, bridge 
 builders, etc.. etc., and their winter quarters on the lines before 
 Petersburg during the winter of 18641865, made by far the 
 handsomest, most attractive camp in the Army of the Potomac. 
 This is a view of the beautiful little church built by them at their 
 camp. The church and steeple are made of rough pine logs and 
 branches, with the bark on, but it is artistic enough to make it 
 worthy of a more permanent existance than a soldier's cam" 
 warrants. 
 
 2448. 
 
 A Sutler's Tent. 
 
 The Sutler or army storekeeper was the fellow who got the most 
 of the soldier's pay. Sardines, canned peaches, ginger cakes, con- 
 densed milk, plug tobacco, etc., etc.. at extremely high prices, 
 found ready sale on pay day and for the few days thereafter that 
 the money lasted, but with condensed milk at a dollar per can. 
 and other-vthings in proportion, thirteen dollars per month did 
 not prove sufficient to keep a fellow in cash more than one or two 
 days per month. This is the tent of Johnson, the sutler of the 
 2d Division, 9th Corps. 
 
 783. Execution of a Colored Soldier. 
 
 In the month of June, 1864, a colored soldier in the Union army 
 in front of Petersburg, attempted to commit a rape on a white 
 woman whose house chanced to be within our lines; the woman's 
 husband was absent from home, serving in the Rebel army. This 
 colored soldier, named Johnson, was caught, tried by Court- 
 martial, lound guilty, and sentenced to be hanged. A request 
 was made of the Rebels, under a flag of truce, that we might be 
 permitted to hang Johnson in plain sight of both armies, between 
 the lines. The request was granted, and this is a photograph of 
 him hanging where both armies can plainly see him. 
 
 961. First Wagon Train Entering Petersburg. 
 
 As soon as the Rebels were forced to evacuate Petersburg, 
 April 2, 1865, our troops took possession ; the inhabitants of the 
 city were in a very destitute condition, almost starving in fact. 
 The U. S. Government at once began issuing rations to these 
 starving people, and great trains loaded with provisions soon 
 rolled into the city. This is a view of the first wagon train that 
 entered the city. The hated Yankees came to them with barrels 
 of flour, pork, coffee, sugar, and other necessaries to relieve their 
 suffering brought upon them by their friends (?) the Rebels. 
 
 8514. Scene at City Point, Va. 
 
 City Point, on the James River, was chosen by General Grant 
 as his base of supplies. Docks and wharves were constructed, 
 and here came the hundreds of supply vessels, bringing rations, 
 forage, ammunition, clothing, hospital supplies, and all the vast 
 amount of things needed for the great Army of the Potomac. 
 General Grant also constructed a Military Railroad from City 
 Point away out around to the left of Petersburg, and by means of 
 this railroad he distributed these supplies to his vast army easily 
 and rapidly. This is a view at City Point, General Grant's Head- 
 quarters. 
 
 6O35. Where one of Grant's Messengers Called. 
 
 The City of Petersburg was under fire almost continuously 
 from July 1864, till April 1865. Scarcely a building in the city but 
 what was struck by shells from the Union batteries. This is a 
 view of the parlor window of Dunlop's house, one of the finest in 
 the city, showing where a shell came bursting into the house. 
 It hardly seems possible that any one could escape such a long 
 siege and bombardment, yet there were many women and children 
 who remained in Petersburg during the entire siege. 
 
 6705. 
 
 This view gives a good idea of how the ammunition was pro- 
 tected in the forts and batteries along the lines; first a room is 
 built of h 
 earth to i 
 
 to the ma .. , 
 
 earth and placed around the entrance to prevent the earth from 
 caving in if a shell explodes on the magazine. Thus protected it- 
 is rarely that a magazine is exploded. 
 
 3346. One Beason why we did not go to Bichmond. 
 
 There were many reasons why we did not go to Richmond as 
 soon as we expected to. This is one of the reasons; there were 
 lots of just such reasons as this all along up the James River. This 
 is one of the many guns which the Rebels had in Fort Darling, 
 which commanded the river approaches for a long distance. The 
 Rebels used to shout across to our pickets, that before we could 
 get to Richmond we had a LONQSTBEBT to travel, a big; HILL to cHib, 
 and a STONEWALL to get over; but we " got there just the sarr-'R." 
 
 Powder Magazine on the Lines. 
 
 n te orts an aeres aong te nes; rs a room s 
 heavy logs spiked together, then the logs are covered with 
 a thickness sufficient to prevent a shell from penetrating 
 agazine. The basket works, "gabions," are filled with
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 1210. McLean's House, Where Lee Surrendered. 
 
 This is the scene of General Lee's Surrender to General Grant, 
 April 9, 1865. It was within this house, owned by a Mr. McLean, 
 and situated near Appomattox Court House, that the surrender 
 was signed. This great historical event took place in the front 
 room on the right of the door as you enter the house. 
 
 2594. A Group of " Contrabands." 
 
 The negroes who ran away from slavery and came into the 
 Union lines, were employed by the Government as teamsters, 
 laborers, Ac. They were happy, good-natured fellows, and made 
 lots of fun for the soliders. This is a characteristic group of the 
 "contrabands," as they were called, standing in front of their 
 rough-built shanty to have their pictures taken. 
 
 2538. A Pontoon Bridge on the James River. 
 
 The boats and timbers forming this bridge are carried on wheels. 
 When the army needs a bridge, the boats are quickly launched, 
 and anchored parallel with the current, the timbers are soon laid; 
 a bridge is thus formed, strong enough to permit the army to 
 cross with the cannon and trains. The boats are then taken up, 
 replaced on the wheels and are carried with the army. 
 
 458. Confederate Fortifications, Yorktown, Va. 
 
 "Battery Magrauder," named after the Rebel General Magrau- 
 der, who was in command at Yorktown. When the Rebels evacu- 
 ated this place they destroyed as many of their cannon as possible. 
 
 560. On the Antietam Battlefield. 
 
 This is a view on the west side of the Hagerstown Road. The 
 bodies of the dead which are strewn thickly beside the fence, 
 just as they fell, shows that the fighting was severe at this point 
 on that bloody day, September 17, 1862. 
 
 568. Where Sumner's Corps Charged at Antietam. 
 
 This view shows where a battery of Rebel artillery was posted 
 in the morning of Sept. 17, 1862. During the day Sumner's Corps 
 charged over this portion of the field, and the dead bodies of men 
 and horses, and the broken gun-carriages shows how the tide of 
 battle carried destruction and death with it. 
 
 553. The "Sunken Road" at Antietam. 
 
 This ditch or " sunken road " was used by the Rebels as a rifle pit. 
 A Union battery succeeded in getting an excellent range of tnis 
 road, and slaughtered the enemy like sheep. This view of some 
 of the dead just as they fell, is only a specimen of many groups 
 of dead in that terrible trap, the " sunken road." 
 
 552. Dunker Church, Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. 
 
 The Rebels posted a battery of light artillery in front of a little 
 one-and-a-half story building, used by the Dunkers as a church. 
 This view shows where one gun of the battery stood. The dead 
 artillerymen and horses, and the shell-holes through the little 
 church, shows how terrible a fire was rained on this spot by the 
 Union batteries. 
 
 243. On the Battlefield at Gettysburg. 
 
 A group of Union dead on the right of the Federal lines on the 
 first days' fight, July 1, 1863. These soldiers were killed by one 
 discharge of "cannister" from a Rebel . gun during a charge. 
 "Cannister" is a tin can filled with small calls about the size of 
 a marble. When the cannon is fired the force of the discharge 
 bursts open the can, and the shower of cannister balls sweeps 
 everything before it. 
 
 245. Union Dead at Gettysburg. 
 
 This group of dead was in " the wheat-field." The burial details 
 found many such groups on that terrible field. The work of 
 burying the thousands of dead was a Herculean task in itself. 
 The hot July sun made it imperative that the dead should be 
 placed underground as soon as possible. In some cases a little 
 mound of earth was heaped over the bodies as they lay, and after 
 the first rain storm the hands and feet of the dead could be seen 
 sticking out from their covering of earth. 
 
 253. The Slaughter Pen at Gettysburg. 
 
 The woods at the foot of " Round Top," which was the " right " 
 of the Union line, were named by the soldiers " the slaughter- 
 pen." The enemy made a desperate attempt to gain a foot-hold 
 on Roua4 Top, for it was virtually the " key" to the field. The 
 woods en tt* slope were strewn with dead. This view gives a 
 
 gli. 
 266. 
 
 Bg the trees, showing the harvest of death. 
 In Trossel's Barnyard, Gettysburg. 
 
 The 9th Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery were stationed 
 in the yard and barnyard at Trossel's place. Some idea of the 
 awful tide of battle which they met there can be inferred from the 
 fact that of the 88 horses of their battery, 65 were killed. This 
 view shrvrs where one of their guns stood. This battery did most 
 valiant service here that day. They held the fearful charge in 
 check Sbili our lines could be re-formed to successfully meet and 
 repel tfee attack. 
 
 73O. General Grant's Council of War. 
 
 This view shows a "Council of War" in the field near Massa- 
 ponax Church, Va., May 21, 1864. The pews or benches have been 
 brought out under the trees, and the officers are gathered to dis- 
 cuss the situation. It has been a disastrous day for the Union 
 troops; the losses have been heavy, and nofhingapparently gained 
 General Grant is bending over the bench looking over General 
 Meade's shoulder at a map which is held in Meade's lap. The 
 Staff Officers are grouped around under the trees; the orderlies 
 are seen in the background ; the ambulances and baggage wagons 
 can also be seen in the background. 
 
 135. " Mounting Guard." 
 
 Each day a new guard is detailed, and before they relieve the 
 old guard of the previous day, they are paraded and inspected by 
 the " Officer of the Day." This view shows a " guard mounting' 1 
 of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry at Headquarters Army of the 
 Potomac, Brandy Station, Va., April 7, 1864. 
 
 1O78. The Ambulance Corps. 
 
 This view shows the method of removing the wounded from 
 the field by the Ambulance Corps. In no previous war in the 
 history of the world was so much done to alleviate suffering as 
 in the war of 1861 1865. But notwithstanding all that was done, 
 the wounded suffered horribly. After any great battle it required 
 several days and nights of steady work ere all the wounded were 
 gathered up, and no pen nor tongue can tell how they suffered 
 while waiting for the Ambulance Corps. 
 
 2508. Burial of the Dead. 
 
 After the battle the dead are gathered and buried. Sometimes 
 pine boxes were procured and single graves were made, with a 
 head-board giving the name, company, and regiment, if it could be 
 ascertained. This view was at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 15, 1862, 
 and shows burial detail employed in burying the Union dead. This 
 burial detail is under a flag of truce, as the Rebels hold this field. 
 
 2512. Filling their Canteens. 
 
 Comrades all remember how eagerly they made a rush for " the 
 old well," when on a long and dusty march they came to a plan- 
 tation with its cool "spring house," or its deep dark well. This 
 view shows the familiar scene of filling the canteens; the well 
 has been covered with canvas and a guard placed over it to pre- 
 vent any waste of water, for a well, however deep and capacious, 
 soon becomes dry when the army commence to draw water. 
 
 715. Wagon Train Crossing the Rappahannock River. 
 
 This is a view of the Sixth Corps wagon train crossing the 
 Rappahannock River on a pontoon bridge, below Fredericksburg 
 in May, 1864. 
 721. Bringing in the Wounded. 
 
 This is a view of Allsop's house near Spottsylvania Court House, 
 May 12. 1864. The barn is used as a field hospital, and in the fore- 
 ground is a wounded soldier on a stretcher, who is being brought 
 in from the field of battle; his comrades have stopped a moment, 
 and the stretcher is placed on the ground ; they are waiting 
 orders from the surgeons to bring in the wounded man. The 
 empty stretcher on the ground a little nearer the barn door tells 
 the story of another wounded man on the operating table ; and so 
 each one must take his turn under the surgeon's knife. 
 
 723. Confederate Dead on the Battlefield. 
 
 (Numbers 723, 725, and 726 are entirely different scenes.) 
 This view was taken near Spottsylvania Court House, May 12, 
 1864, after Ewell's attack on the Federal right. The dead man 
 is one of the Rebel General Ewell's soldiers, just as he fell. There 
 is very little of the "romance of war" to be found in such scenes 
 as this ; the fair face of nature is smeared and stained with the 
 blood of the poor victims of war. Every rod of ground hereabouts 
 has one or more dead soldiers lying on it. 
 
 725. Confederate Dead on the Battlefield. 
 
 This view was taken near Spottsylvania Court House, May 12, 
 1864, after Swell's attack on the Federal right. The dead man 
 is one of the Rebel General Ewell's soldiers, just as he fell. There 
 is very little of the " romance of war" to be found in such scenes 
 as this; the fair face of nature is smeared and stained with the 
 blood of the poor victims of war. Every rod of ground herea- 
 bouts has one or more dead soldiers lying on it. 
 
 726. Confederate Dead on the Battlefield. 
 
 This view was taken near Spottsylvania Court House, May 19, 
 1864, after Ewell's attack on the Federal right. The dead men 
 are the Rebel General Ewell's soldiers, just as they fell. There 
 is very little of the " romance of war " to be found in such scenes 
 as this; the fair face of nature is smeared and stained with the 
 blood of the poor victims of war. Every rod of ground hereabouts 
 has one or more dead soldiers lying on it. 
 
 274. The Horrors of War. 
 
 A Union soldier killed by a shell at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. 
 His arm was torn off, and can be seen on the ground near his 
 musket, and entirely separated from his body. The shell also com- 
 pletely disemboweled the poor fellow, and killed him so quick 
 that he never knew what struck him. Think of a battlefield 
 covering nearly twenty-five square miles, and covered with 
 thousands of dead, many of them mangled even worse than this 
 one aod you can have a faint idea of Gettysburg in the early days 
 of July, 1863. 
 
 2391. Wounded Trees at Gettysburg. 
 
 Some idea of the fierceness of the battle can be had by observ- 
 ing these trees near Gulp's Hill. The marks of bullets and shell 
 can be counted by the hundreds. AH through the woods the trees 
 were marred in this manner. Many trees were shot down as 
 though cut with an axe. 
 
 2288. 
 
 burg. It is a very charac"teristVc"^iew,"an'd 'gives "a good idea' of 
 how the "Johnnie Rebs" looked. They were nearly all clothed 
 in a grey or butternut homespun cloth, and there were hardly 
 two suits alike in a whole regiment; however, "a man is a man 
 for a' that." These " Johnnies " were royal good fighters. 
 
 Three " Johnnie Reb" Prisoners. 
 
 shows three " Johnnies " who were captured at Gettys-
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 6718. Atlanta, Georgia, Just after its Capture. 
 
 This is a view near the Railroad Depot in Atlanta, just after the 
 city was captured by General Sherman. Uncle Sam's baggage 
 trains and the " boys in blue " are a strange sight to the inhabi- 
 tants of Atlanta. 
 746. A Canvas Pontoon Bridge. 
 
 This is the point on the North Anna River near Jericho Mills 
 where the Fifth Corps crossed in May, 1864. On this side of the 
 river is seen the pontoon wagons, and the stacked muskets of 
 some of the troops. On the other side the troops are in bivouac 
 under the trees, making coffee. The stacks of muskets, the 
 soldiers lying on the ground, the smoke from the various little 
 bivouac fires, combine to make the " past rise before us like a 
 dream." 
 1079. Engineer Corps Building a Road. 
 
 This view shows a detachment of the 50th New York Engineers 
 making a road on the north side of the North Anna River, near 
 Jericho Mills. In the background is seen the ammunition train 
 of the Fifth Corps crossing the river on the pontoon bridge built 
 by this Engineer Corps. All old soldiers of the Army of the 
 Potomac remember the valuable services rendered by the 60th 
 New York Engineer Corps. 
 
 755. A Confederate Redout. 
 
 This is an exterior view of a Rebel redoubt on the south bank 
 of the North Anna River. The guns of this redoubt commanded 
 the Chesterfield bridge. The Second Corps crossed the river and 
 captured this redoubt May 23, 1864. The artillery at the em- 
 brasure, the shelter tents, the groups of soldiers are all as natural 
 as life. 
 
 6669. A Block House. 
 
 This Block House was erected for the protection of the Knox- 
 ville & Chattanooga Railroad. It is about four miles from Chatta- 
 nooga. 
 
 6175. Dead Confederate Soldier in the Trenches. 
 
 (Nos. 6175, 6178, 6182, 6184, 6189 and 6190 are entirely different seenes.) 
 
 This photograph was taken April 2, 18G5, in the Rebel trenches 
 at Petersburg just after their capture by the Union troops. The 
 trenches all along the lines were found to contain many dead Con- 
 federates, and this view is but one of many that was made by the 
 photographer showing the dead just as they fell. By looking at a 
 number of these views you can get an idea of how a long stretch 
 of the trenches looked that day. Of course the camera could not 
 take but a small section within the scope of each view. You will 
 notice that no two of the dead fell in the same position. 
 
 6178. Dead Confederate Soldier in the Trenches. 
 
 This photograph was taken April 2, 1865, in the Rebel trenches 
 at Petersburg just after their capture by the Union troops. The 
 trenches all along the lines were found to contain many dead Con- 
 
 federates, and this view is but one of many that was made by thi 
 photographer showing the dead just as they fell. By looking at a 
 number of these views you can get an idea of how a long stretch 
 of the trenches looked that day. Of course the camera could not 
 take but a small section within the scope of each view. You will 
 notice that no two of the dead fell in the same position. 
 
 6182. Dead Confederate Soldier in the Trenches. 
 
 This photograph was taken April 2, 1865, in the Rebel trenches 
 at Petersburg just after their capture by the Union troops. The 
 trenches all alonij the lines were found to contain many dead Con- 
 federates, and this view is but one of many that was made by the 
 photographer showing the dead just as they fell. By looking at a 
 number of these views you can get an idea of how a long stretch 
 of the trenches looked that day. Of course the camera could not 
 take but a small section within the scope of each view. You will 
 notice that no two of the dead fell in the same position. 
 
 6184. Dead Confederate Soldier in the Trenches. 
 
 This photograph was taken April 2, 1865, in the Rebel trencnes 
 at Petersburg just after their capture by the Union troops. The 
 trenches all along the lines were found to contain many dead Con- 
 federates, and this view is but one of many that was made by the 
 photographer showing the dead just as they fell. By looking at a 
 number of these views you can get an idea of how a long stretch 
 of the trenches looked that day. Of course the camera could not 
 take but a small section within the scope of each view. You will 
 notice that no two of the dead fell in the same position. 
 
 6189. Dead Confederate Soldier in the Trenches. 
 
 This photograph was taken April 2, 1865, in the Rebel trenches 
 at Petersburg just after their capture by the Union troops. The 
 trenches all along the lines were found to contain many dead Con- 
 federates, and this view is but one of many that was made by the 
 photographer showing the dead just as they fell. By looking at a 
 number of these views you can get an idea of how a long stretch 
 of the trenches looked that day. Of course the camera could not 
 take but a small section within the scope of each view. You will 
 notice that no two of the dead fell in the same position. 
 
 6190. Dead Confederate Soldier in the Trenches. 
 
 This photograph was taken April 2, 1865, in the Rebel trenches 
 at Petersburg just after their capture by the Union troops. The 
 trenches all along the lines were found to contain many dead Con- 
 federates, and this view is but one of many that was made by the 
 photographer showing the dead just as they fell. By looking at a 
 number of these views you can get an idea of how a long stretch 
 of the trenches looked that day. Of course the camera could not 
 take but a small section within the scope of each view. You will 
 notice that no two of the dead fell in the same position. 
 
 173. How Sherman's Boys Fixed the Railroad. 
 
 On the " march to the sea" Sherman's army burned the bridges 
 and destroyed the railroads as they went. This view gives a 
 scene of the destruction of the W. & A. R. R. The rails are first 
 torn up, then the wooden ties are pried out and piled in heaps 
 and burned; the iron rails are laid across the burning ties, and 
 soon get hot enough in the middle so that the weight of the ends 
 hend the rail up as here shown. Of course when they get cold 
 they are simply good as " old iron." 
 
 722. Confederate Soldiers laid out for Burial. 
 
 Dead soldiers of the Rebel General Ewell's Corps killed at 
 Spottsylvania, May 19, 1804. The dead of both armies were col- 
 lected and buried by Union troops here. The Government Pho- 
 tographer accompanied one of the burial details and obtained a 
 number of views of burying the dead. 
 
 24O1. " The Hero of Gettysburg." 
 
 Old John Burns has been celebrated in song and history for tho 
 brave part he voluntarily took in the great fight. He was an old 
 citizen of the town of Gettysburg, who, when the battle began, 
 took his old flint-lock musket and went into the Union ranks to 
 fight for his Country. He was wounded three times ; this picture 
 was taken after the battle as he sat in his old arm chair near his 
 cottage door recovering from his wounds. 
 
 2539. Pontoon Bridge Opened for Steamers. 
 
 The pontoon bridges were readily opened for the passage of 
 steamers. A few or the pontoon boats were slipped from their 
 moorings and the floor timbers loosened, then the current of the 
 river would sweep the few boats thus loosened around out of the 
 way, and so made a draw-bridge. When the steamer passed 
 through, the boats were quickly drawn back into place and 
 fastened. 
 
 2542. "Where Prisoners Were Exchanged. 
 
 This is Aiken's Landing, where the flag-of-truce boat from 
 Richmond came to discharge her cargo of poor, starved, and often 
 dying Union prisoners, and receive in exchange the same num- 
 ber of healthy, well-fed Rebels from our guards. Two or three 
 rough old canal boats, and the grim old monitor there at anchor, 
 but above all the glorious old stars and stripes, and on the shore the 
 loving hearts and kindly hands of friends; so our poor starved boys 
 called it "the gate into God's country." 
 
 2557. A Pontoon Boat on "Wheels. 
 
 This view shows two of the boats (of which the army bridge is 
 made) on wheels ready for the march. Each pontoon wagon is 
 drawn by six mules. These pontoons were always getting stuck 
 in the mud, and the soldiers, struggling elong under their own 
 burdens, were obliged to hnul on the drag ropes, and raise the 
 blockade. Probably no soldier will see this view without being 
 reminded of the time when lie helped to pull these pontoons out 
 of the mud, and comforted himself by swearing at the mules. 
 
 2529. Embalming Building near Fredericksburg, Va. 
 
 This old barn near Fredericksburg, Va., was used as an em- 
 balming building. Here the bodies of the dead soldiers that were 
 to be sent North to their friends were embalmed. More than a 
 hundred bodies were .sometimes brought here in one day. During 
 the first battle of Fredericksburg, in December, 1802, several 
 hundred bodies were here at one time to be embalmed. 
 
 2531. 
 
 Embalming Surgeon at Work. 
 
 This view shows Dr. Burr, the embalming surgeon, engaged in 
 the process of embalming a dead soldier. The veins are pumped 
 full of some liquid, which possesses the power to arrest and pre- 
 
 vent decay. Thus it was made possible to send to friends in the 
 North the bodies of many hundreds of soldiers, which, but for 
 the science of embalming, could not have been permitted a grave 
 in their native soil. 
 
 157. Building a Pontoon Bridge at Beaufort, S. C. 
 
 This is a view of the troops engaged in building a pontoon 
 bridge across Port Royal River, at Beaufort, S. C., in March, 1802. 
 Each boat, with a certain number of timbers, is carried on a large 
 wagon, and when needed, is brought up to the water's edge, 
 slipped off from tlie wheels into the river, anchored parallel 
 with the current, and followed by others in a like manner; the 
 timbers are soon laid, and the army has a serviceable bridge, light 
 and strong. 
 
 161. A Battery of " Quaker Guns." 
 
 Sometimes in order to give the enemy an idea that we had more 
 cannon than we really possessed, our troops would make imita- 
 tion cannon out of big logs, and mount them on such wheels as they 
 could get hold of. At a distance these resembled a battery of 
 artillery, and so served their purpose in deceiving tho enemy. 
 This mock battery was made by the 7'.)th New York, at Seabrook 
 Point, Port Royal Island, S. C., December, 1861. 
 
 6661. I, ill ii Lake on Lookout Mountain. 
 
 This beautiful little lake is on the celebrated Lookout Mountain. 
 It is a charming spot. A story is told illustrating the wHI-known 
 tendency of Southern people to tell how grand everything was in 
 the South "befoh the wall." One evening since the war, a North- 
 ern party were sitting on the bunks of this little lake, admiring 
 the perfect loveliness of the scene. One of the Northern gentle- 
 men said that the reflection of the moon's rays from the rnirror-like 
 surface of the lake was simply perfect, that nothing could be more 
 lovely. A Southern lady after listening to their many praises 
 of the wonderful beauty of the moon reflected from the lake, 
 sighed sadly as she replied, "ah! yes, it's very pretty, but you 
 ought to have seen it 'before the war.'"
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 6051. Fort Sum tor after the Bombardment. 
 
 (Numbers 6051 and 6052 are entirely different scenes.) 
 
 This is a view of a portion of the exterior of the celebrated Fort 
 Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, S. C. The heavy batteries on 
 Morris Island aided by a fleet of Monitors, gave this fort a terrible 
 bombardment. It was.at the commencement of this bombardment, 
 a handsome, symetrical fort. Tnis photograph was made after the 
 bombardment, and shows what a fearful pounding the fort has 
 received : in fact it is scarcely more than a mass of ruins. Shot, 
 shell, and dismounted and broken cannon are scattered about like 
 leaves of the forest. 
 
 6052. Fort Sumter after the Bombardment. 
 
 This is a view of a portion of the exterior of the celebrated Fort 
 Sumter. in Charleston Harbor. S. C. The heavy batteries on 
 Morris Island aided by a fleet or Monitors, gave this fort a terrible 
 bombardment. It was, at the commencement of this bombardment, 
 a handsome, symetrical fort. This photograph was made after the 
 bombardment, and shows what a fearful pounding the fort has 
 received; in fact it is scarcely more than a mass of ruins. Shot, 
 shell, and dismounted and broken cannon are scattered about like 
 leaves of the forest. 
 
 6140. Raising the Old Flag over Fort Sumter. 
 
 April 14, 1865, (four years from the day the Rebels had com- 
 pelled Major Anderson to haul down the stars and stripes from 
 the flag-staff at Fort Sumter,) Major General Anderson raised the 
 same nag over the ruins of the Fort, now again in possession 
 of the United States. The ceremony was of most intense interest. 
 Charleston Harbor was filled with Uncle Sam's vessels covered 
 with holiday flags. Great crowds thronged Fort Sumter. Henry 
 Ward Beecher delivered the oration. At a given signal, amid 
 booming cannon, and with the bands playing the Star Spangled 
 Banner, Major General Robert Anderson ran up the glorious old 
 flag, and ran it up to stay ; a perpetual menace to treason from 
 within, or foreign enemies from without. " Long shall it wave." 
 
 6649. On the Battlefield at Stone River. 
 
 This is a monument erected by the Veterans of Hazen's Brigade 
 in memory of their comrades who fell here in the battle of Stone 
 River. The inscription on this side of the monument reads: 
 " The Veterans of Sniloh have left a deathless heritage of fame on 
 the field of Stone River." Then follows the names of those who 
 were killed, with dates, &c. This view will be much prized by the 
 comrades or that army. 
 
 1234. English Armstrong Gun in Fort Fisher, N. C. 
 
 When the celebrated Fort Fisher (which was situated at the 
 mouth of Cape Fear River and was the cover to the vast amount 
 of blockade running into Wilmington) was captured by General 
 Terry and Admiral Porter, among many other evidences of the 
 friendship of England for the Rebels, there was found one of the 
 noted Armstrong guns, made only for the English Government, 
 and bearing the imprint of the " broad arrow," or Government 
 brand of England. This is a view of the Armstrong gun furnished 
 by the English haters of the United States to our enemies to help 
 destroy us. But "John Bull "was not a "bigger man than old 
 Grant,*' and the " Government at Washington still lives." 
 
 6653. Chattanooga, Tenn. 
 
 This view will be appreciated by many comrades. In the fore- 
 ground is the Railroad Depot of Chattanooga ; a group of Rebel 
 prisoners waiting for a train to make up to take them North. In 
 the background the tent? scattered along at the base of Lookout, 
 and looming up skyward is old Lookout Mountain, where Joe 
 Hooker and nis boys fought " above the clouds." 
 
 6672. Camp in Monument Garden, Chattanooga. 
 
 This beautiful vie> is a scene looking up the Tennessee River. 
 The charming camp in the foreground is in Monument Garden, 
 near the Indian Mound ; the group of Soldiers seem as though 
 
 they might be enjoying themsel 
 3649. Where General McPhers 
 
 i was Killed. 
 
 This is the place on the battlefield of Atlanta, Ga., where the 
 gallant General McPherson was killed, in July, 1864. During the 
 fight General McPherson rode into this piece of woods alone. It 
 so happened that there was a small gap at this point, betweeu the 
 16th and 17th Corps, during the severe fighting. McPherson did 
 not know of this fatal gap, and he rode through, directly into the 
 enemy's line. The skirmishers of the Rebel General "Paddy 
 Cleburne" were concealed in the underbrush; they fired and 
 killed McPherson. He fell from his horse at this spot; the horse 
 dashed back into our lines, and the General's aides seeing his 
 horse riderless, charged into the woods and recovered the General's 
 body, driving off the vandals who were robbing him of his watch 
 and money. 
 6619. Waiting for Exchanged Prisoners. 
 
 This is the Federal flag-of-truce steamer " New York," waiting 
 at Aiken's Landing, on the James River, for the Rebel flag-of- 
 truce boat from Richmond, with a load of Union prisoners for ex- 
 change. And what an exchange it was. The Union soldiers just 
 from Rebel prison pens; starved and often too weak to walk, many 
 of the poor victims had to be brought off on stretchers, some even 
 were dead before they reached this place of exchange. What did 
 the Rebels get in exchange; man for man, they received fat 
 healthy, welPfed, and well-clothed Rebel soldiers. The starving 
 Union soldiers we got from them went directly into hospitals 
 or to their graves; the Rebel soldiers they got from us went 
 directly into their army, the strongest and best men they had. 
 This is the secret of the horrible treatment our soldiers received 
 in Andersonville and other prison pens. It was to weaken us, and 
 strengthen themselves that prompted them to starve our soldiers. 
 
 3633. 
 
 " Old Tecumseh " Himself. 
 
 General William. T. Sherman was familiarly know as "Old 
 Tecumseh," his full name being William Tecumseh Sherman. 
 This photograph of him was taken in the Union lines before 
 Atlanta, July 19, 1864. His boys will be glad to see him as he 
 looked during the war. 
 
 3626. 
 
 General Sherman and Staff. 
 
 is the camp, the troops drawn up in line. 
 Outer Line at Nashville. 
 
 This, photograph of General Sherman and his Staff, was taken 
 on July 18, 1864, on the lines before Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 367 1. Preparing for the " March to the Sea." 
 
 This is the last train of cars that went out of Atlanta just before 
 Sherman's troops destroyed the railroad. This train is loaded 
 even on the roofs of the cars, with families fleeing from the city. 
 
 3631. Sherman's Men Destroying Railroad. 
 
 After the capture of Atlanta, and just before the "March to the 
 Sea," General Sherman's men destroyed the railroads and all 
 public property that could be of value to the enemy. This view 
 shows the soldiers engaged in destroying the railroad and burn- 
 ing the depots and store-houses. This photograph is a familiar 
 picture, and no doubt suggests to your minds the words of the old 
 and familiar song: 
 
 "So ice made a thoroughfare for Freedom and her train, 
 Sixty miles in latitude ; three hundred to the main, 
 Treason fled before us for resistance was in vain, 
 While we were marching through Georgia." 
 
 6646. Federal Camp at Johnsonville, Tenn. 
 
 This js a view taken at Johnsonville the day before its evacua- 
 tion, in December. 1864. In the foreground is the depot platform 
 and just back of that is the 1st Tennessee Colored Battery. In 
 the background is the 
 
 6639. 
 
 This photograph was taken December 16, 1864, and shows a view 
 on the outer Tine of the Union army at Nashville. The long line 
 of shelter tents as far as the eye can see, the stacked arms, the 
 groups of soldiers, all combine to make this a very interesting view. 
 
 6652. Railroad Depot at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 This is probably as familiar a scene as any in Nashville to the 
 comrades of that army. The long line of U. S. Locomotives give 
 an idea of the vast amount of freighting necessary to supply the 
 Army of Tennessee. 
 
 1291. Confederate Dead at Fort Robinette, Corinth. 
 
 This view shows dead Confederate soldiers in front of Fort 
 Robinette, Corinth, just as "they fell, in their attack on the fort. 
 The fort is seen in the background, on the left of the picture. 
 
 391. The Levee at Ticksburg, Miss., February, 1864. 
 
 This is a view of the famous Vicksburg Levee ; photographed 
 in February, 1864. 
 
 645. Pickett Station, Blackburn's Ford, BuU Run. 
 
 This is a reserve picket station near Blackburn's Ford, at Bull 
 Run. The advance picket is stationed a short distance beyond 
 this reserve station. In case of an attack the advance pickets 
 commence firing, and gradually fall back on the reserve ; then the 
 reserve all along the Tine form and oppose the advance of the 
 enemy as much as possible, and if crowded back, they retire 
 slowly, fighting as they go ; this gives time for the army to form 
 and be prepared to give battle. 
 
 740. Hospital at Frederlcksburg, Ta., May, 1864. 
 
 This is one of the hospitals established by the Sanitary Com- 
 mission, in Fredericksburg, Va., during the Wilderness Campaign, 
 in 1864. The wounded are from Kearney's Division, and are 
 being cared for by the noble Sanitary Commission. 
 
 1199. The Ever Welcome Sanitary Commission. 
 
 In the history of all the world, there can be found no record of 
 so grand and noble an organization, as the United States Sanitary 
 Commission. It had its branches in nearly every town and village 
 during the war. It sent its members (noble women and men) to 
 every battlefield; it saved thousands of lives; it relieved untold 
 misery and suffering. No old soldier can look at this picture with- 
 out having awakened in him bright memories of the grand old 
 Sanitary Commission, blessed of God and man. 
 
 2318. The Sally-port and Draw-bridge. 
 
 Around each fort is a line of " abbatis," and back of that a broad, 
 deep ditch, or moat, partially filled with water. To enable the 
 garrison to cross this ditch, to pass in and out of the fort, there is 
 one narrow draw-bridge at the sally-port or entrance of the fort. 
 When an attack is made, the bridge is lifted or drawn inside the 
 fort, like a gang-plank; the sally-port is then closed and blocked, 
 and the garrison are thus protected on all sides, both by the line 
 of " abbatis," and the ditch or moat, making the fort like an island 
 doubly surrounded, first by the moat, and then by the line of 
 "abbatis." To advance on this fort under a heavy fire from these 
 cannon, to stop directly before the muzzles of the guns and 
 remove this line of "abbatis," while men were falling like leaves 
 on every side, to struggle past the obstructions, cross the slippery 
 moat, and attempt to scale the walls of the fort in the face of a 
 deadly fire from the well-protected garrison, required brave men, 
 indeed, for the attacking party were far more likely to find their 
 graves in this treacherous, slippery ditch, than they were to scale 
 the walls and capture the fort.
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 We have over a hundred different views of the ruins in Richmond, in 
 April, 18G5. We select from these a few to give some idea of the awful 
 destruction caused by the Rebels when they evacuated the city. 
 
 626O. Ruins of Richmond, April, 1865. 
 
 When the Rebel army were forced to evacuate their Capitol at 
 Richmond, they set fire to the city, exploded the powder in their 
 magazines and did their worst to entirely destroy the city. The 
 Union troops came in as eonquerers and immediately set to work 
 with a will to extinguish the fires and save as much of the city as 
 possible, but before the fires could be quenched, over 700 build- 
 ings were in ruins. This is a view of the depot of the Richmond 
 A Petersburg Railroad. The ruined building and the ruined 
 locomotive shows what destruction war brings. 
 
 6258. A Crippled Locomotive in Richmond. 
 
 When the Rebel army were forced to evacuate their Capitol at 
 Richmond, they set fire to the city, exploded the powder in their 
 magazines and did their worst to entirely destroy the city. The 
 Union troops came in as eonquerers and immediately set to work 
 with a will to extinguish the fires and save as much of the city as 
 possible, but before the fires could be quenched, over 700 build- 
 ings were in ruins. This is a view of the depot of the Richmond 
 & Petersburg Railroad. The ruined building and the ruined 
 locomotive shows what destruction war brings. 
 
 883. Panoramic View of Richmond. in Ruins. 
 
 This view, taken in connection with number 884, form a very 
 good Panoramic View of the "burnt district" in Richmond, in 
 lHG. r >. These two views are from the old Arsenal looking down the 
 James River. 
 
 884. Panoramic View of Richmond in Ruins. 
 
 This view, taken in connection with number 883, form a very 
 good Panoramic View of the "burnt district" in Richmond in 
 1805. These two views are from the old Arsenal looking down the 
 James River. 
 
 6161. Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. 
 
 This is a view of the infamous Libby Prison, where so many of 
 our Union soldiers suffered and starved during the war. It would 
 take volumes to tell the story of Libby Prison. It was an old 
 tobacco warehouse which the 'Rebels converted into a prison for 
 Union soldiers. There is not a Grand Army Post through all our 
 land but what has among its members some comrade who knows 
 from experience just what a "hell hole" this place was. The 
 building has now been torn down, and if the spot where it stood 
 could be wiped off the face of the earth, it would be well. 
 
 897. 
 
 " Castle Thunder," Richmond, Va. 
 
 This is a building which was used by the Rebels as a prison to 
 confine Union soldiers. Its history is almost as damnable as that 
 of Libby Prison. The horrors of both "Catle Thunder" and 
 Libby Prison will be vividly remembered as long as any soldier 
 who was therein confined shall li 
 
 6277. Smoke-stack of the Rebel Ram " Virginia." 
 
 This is the smoke-stack of the Rebel Ram Virginia, and shows 
 how our batteries peppered the ram when it made its famous raid 
 down the river and attempted to run by our batteries. When 
 Richmond was taken, this smoke-stack was found at the 
 "Rocketts." The Rebels had taken it out and was repairing the 
 ram when they got orders to evacuate the city. The ram was 
 blown up by them when they left. 
 
 3618. 
 
 Grave of General J. E. B. Stuart. 
 
 The Rebel cavalry General, J. E. B. Stuart, is well remembered 
 by all soldiers of the Army of the Potomac. This is his grave in 
 Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. 
 
 3404. Place where President Lincoln was Assassinated. 
 
 This is the private box in Ford's Theater, Washington, where 
 President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, on the 
 night of April 14, 1805. 
 
 3405. The Chair Lincoln sat in when he was Shot. 
 
 This easy chair was placed in the private box in Ford's Theater, 
 Washington, specially for the use of President Lincoln, who, after 
 the wearisome toil of the day liked to rest himself and for the 
 time forget the cares of State by watching the play at the theater. 
 It was while sitting in this chair on the evening of April 14, 18f>5, 
 that the cowardly assassin sneaked into the private box and 
 creeping up behind the noble Lincoln, fired the fatal shot. 
 
 6719. Pickett Station near Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 This is one of the picket posts on the Union lines before Atlanta, 
 a few days before the battle of July 22, 18f>4. This is what is called 
 the " reserve post." Slightly advanced from this position is the 
 outside line of our pickets. 
 
 827. 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Camp in the "Woods. 
 
 This is a view of companies "C" and " D," 1st Massachusetts 
 Cavalry. It will be or special interest to survivors of those 
 companies. 
 
 3591. General Grant's Horse, " Jeff Davis." 
 
 This is one of General Grant's favorite horses ; the photograph 
 was taken at City Point, Va., in March, 1865. 
 
 306. Refugees Leaving the Old Homestead. 
 
 This was one of the familiar scenes during the war. Union 
 families were persecuted by the Rebels and '"bushwhackers," 
 and to escape this persecution and probable death, they would, 
 when pur troops came near enough to protect them, hastily gather 
 up a little furniture, pile it on to an old wagon, and bidding good- 
 by to their home, take up their march northward toward the land 
 of freedom. 
 
 657. A Negro Family coming into the Union Lines. 
 
 A characteristic view of a big load of " contrabands " coming 
 into our lines. 
 
 619. A Cavalry " Orderly." 
 
 One morning in October, 18(12, our photographer was approached 
 
 by a cavalry " orderly," with the request : 
 " Can you make a picture of my horse this morning ; " 
 The photographer accommodated the soldier, and this is the 
 
 view clone of those very useful soldiers, the Cavalry "orderly" 
 
 A one of those very 
 er of " dispatches." 
 
 2321. Double-turrett Monitor " Onondaga," in the 
 James River. 
 
 488. Iron-clad Gun-boat " Galena," Showing the effect 
 of Rebel Shot. 
 
 This is a view of the United States Gun-boat "Galena" after her 
 fight with Fort Darling, on Drewey's Bluff, James River, in July, 
 1802. The "Galena" is an iron-clad, but the shot and shell from 
 the Rebel guns have pierced her armor in various places. 
 
 1O3. U. S. Frigate ' Pensacola," off Alexandria, Va. 
 
 At the commencement of the war these great Frigates were the 
 most powerful ships of war known, but the little Monitor came 
 and revolutionized the navies of all the world. This is a view of 
 Frigate "Pensacola," laying in the Potomac Itiver, off Alexandria, 
 Va., in June, 1801. 
 
 2541. Gunboat " Meiidota," in James River, near Deep 
 Hot t., in, 1864. 
 
 2547. U. S. Steamer " Massasoit," in James River, 1864. 
 
 2467. 
 
 The Rebel Ram " Atlanta.' 
 
 482. Hundred-pounder Gun on Rebel Steamer. 
 
 This view shows the hundred-pounder rifle-gun on the Rebel 
 blockade-runner "Teazer" captured by the United States Gun-boat 
 "Maritanza," July 4, 18G2. 
 
 483. 
 
 Effect of Yankee Shell on the " Teaser.' 
 
 The Rebel blockade-runner "Teazer" was captured by the 
 United States Gun-boat "Maritanza," July 4, 1802. This view 
 shows a portion of the deck of the "Teazer," and how the shells 
 from Uncle Sam's Gun-boat smashed things. 
 
 3413. Admiral Dahlgren and Staff on the " Pawnee." 
 
 The "Pawnee" was called the fighting ship of the navy. This 
 is a view of Rear Admiral Dahlgren and Staff on the deck of the 
 " Pawnee " off Charleston, S. C. 
 
 1130. Magazine in Rattery Rodgers, on the Potomac. 
 
 1140. Fifteen-inch Gun in Battery Rodgers on the 
 Potomac. 
 
 1151. Sling-Cart for Moving Heavy Cannon. 
 
 These immense sling-carts are used for moving heavy cannon. 
 The wheels have double spokes and very broad heavy tires. Some 
 idea of the size of these immense wheels can be formed by com- 
 paring their height with that of the officer who stands near. 
 It will be noticed that although he is a tall man, yet his head 
 only comes up to about the hub of the wheel. 
 
 6717. On the Lines near Atlanta. 
 
 This is the "Potter House" on the Rebel lines near Atlanta. 
 The sharpshooters of the enemy posted themselves in the upper 
 rooms and on the roof of this house overlooking the Union lines, 
 and thus greatly annoying our troops and killing many of our 
 men, during the battle of July 22, 1864. Finally a battery of light 
 artillery was brought up, and quickly made the house untenable 
 for sharpshooters or anyone else. 
 
 259O. General Grant's Horse " Cincinnati." 
 
 This is one of General Grant's favorite horses; the photograph 
 was taken at City Point, Va., in March, 1865. 
 
 6064. Water Battery of Fort Johnson, James Island, S.C. 
 
 This view shows the Water Battery of Fort Johnson, looking 
 towards the celebrated Fort Sumter. Fort Sumtcr can be seen in 
 the distance. 
 
 6077. Ruins of Secession Hall, Charleston, S. C. 
 
 This Secession Hall (as it was called) in Charleston, S. C., was 
 the birth-place of the Rebellion, for here it was the first ordinance 
 of Secession was passed. This view shows the ruins of Secession 
 Hall as it appeared when the Union troops took possession of the 
 city. Adjoining the hall is shown the ruins of the Central Church, 
 and in the background is seen St. Phillip's Church.
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 577. Independent Pennsylvania Battery " E " 
 
 (Knapp's Battery.) 
 
 This is a view of the well-known Knapp's Battery, of the Army 
 of the Potomac, at Antietam, Md., Sept., 1862. This view was taken 
 shortly after the great battle of Antietam. 
 
 587. Army Blacksmith and Forge, Antietam, Sept., 1862. 
 
 Each battery of artillery and each squadron of cavalry were 
 provided with a Forge, mounted on heavy wheels, similar to a 
 piece of Artillery. This Forge travelled with the Army, and the 
 Artificer in charge of the Forge attended to shoeing the horses, 
 and repairing the iron-work of the gun-carriages and baggage- 
 wagons. He always had plenty of business, and this view shows 
 him engaged in shoeing the horses. 
 
 602. President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan in 
 
 McClellan's Tent. 
 
 After the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, President Lincoln 
 visited the Army of the Potomac, and this view shows the Presi- 
 dent and "Little Mac" in McClellan's tent at Headquarters Army 
 of the Potomac, Antietam, October 4, 1862. 
 
 787. Cowan's (First N. Y.) Battery before Petersburg, Va. 
 
 This view shows Cowan's Battery, in position, in captured Rebel 
 works on the Petersburg line. Although this view is not as 
 clear as we wish it was, yet we publish it in response to numerous 
 requests. 
 
 2413. Near view of a " Sibley " Tent. 
 
 Early in the war the soldiers were much more comfortably shel- 
 tered than they were as the war progressed. This view shows a 
 "Sibley" tent mess; these "Sibley" tents were nice large tents, 
 and could comfortably hold from ten to fifteen men. When the 
 Army moved up the Penninsula (from camp Winfield Scott, before 
 Yorktown,) early in the Spring of 1862, we bade farewell to our 
 comfortable large tents, and thereafter each soldier carried his 
 house on his back. From the Spring of 1862 till the end of the 
 war we lived in " dog tents " or shelter (?) tents as the government 
 miscalled them. 
 
 9 83. Troops dret 
 
 . up In Hollow Square to Witness 
 an Execution. 
 
 This view was taken before Petersburg in 1864, and shows the 
 troops formed in a hollow square to witness the execution of a 
 negro soldier named Johnson, who was hanged on this scaffold, 
 by order of a general Court-martial, having been convicted of an 
 attempted rape of a white woman, whose house was within the 
 Union lines near here, but whose husband was in the Rebel army. 
 
 1045. Winter Quarters of the Rebel Army, at 
 
 Manassas, Va., 1863. 
 
 During the winter of 18611862 the Rebel army of Northern Vir- 
 ginia were in winter quarters near Manassas, Va., and this is a 
 view of their quarters, which, by the way, were much better than 
 either army were accustomed to have during the later winters of 
 the war. 
 
 2568. Signal Tower on the Line before Peters- 
 burg, Va., 1864. 
 
 On our more permanent lines tall towers were erected on high 
 and commanding positions. From the top of these towers our 
 signal corps could transmit messages by means of waiving of flags 
 by day and torches by night. These were in plain sight of the 
 enemy, but were utterly unintelligible to them, as the messages 
 were ail in cipher; the very men who were waving the flag did 
 not know the tenor of the messages they transmitted; they of 
 course knew how to wave their flags so as to make certain given 
 figures, but they did not know what those figures meant. Only 
 the Officers of the signal corps had the " key "to the cipher. The 
 members of the signal corps were brave and cool as any soldiers 
 who were doing the fighting, for when the lines of battle were 
 shifting, the signal corps was pushed away out at the front where 
 they could better observe the movements of the enemy, and trans- 
 mit intelligence to the generals; they had to post themselves in 
 tree-tops or on house-tops, in most exposed positions, and were 
 constantly made the target for sharpshooters. When our troops 
 were sorely pressed, sometimes a message from the little flags was 
 like an inspiration, telling of reinforcements coming to our help. 
 
 3679. Fort McAllister, on the Ogechee River, Ga. 
 
 This was a very strong Rebel fort ; it was captured by Sherman's 
 boys who made a splendid assault and charge, and carried it by 
 storm. This view is on the river side of the fort, and shows a sig- 
 nal man on the parapet, and a steamer approaching. 
 
 2564. General Wright, Commander of the " Bloody 
 Sixth Corps." 
 
 The old Sixth corps were too well known to need an introduc- 
 tion, but the survivors of that brave organization will be g-lad to 
 take a look at their old commander, Gen. Wright, and the old 
 headquarters flag, which could always be found where the fight 
 was hottest. 
 
 217. 
 
 Non-commissioned Officers' Mess, Co. " D " 
 93d New York Infantry. 
 
 This view was taken at Bealton, Va., in August, 1863, and if any 
 of the members of this Company are now living they will doubt- 
 less appreciate the scene. 
 
 Troops Crossing the Rappahann 
 a Pontoon Bridge. 
 
 nock River on 
 
 This view shows the troops crossing the Rappahannock River 
 at Germania Ford, May 4, 1864. 
 
 486. The Original "Monitor" after her Fight with 
 the "Merrimac." 
 
 This view shows part of the deck and turret of the " Monitor ; " 
 near the port-hole can be seen the dents made by the heavy steel- 
 pointed shot from the guns of the "Merrimac." As the old war 
 time ditty has it: 
 
 "The Rebel shot flew hot, but our boys they answered not, 
 Till they got within a distance they called handy ; 
 
 Then says Worden to his crew, boys, let's see what we can do, 
 And up spoke little Yankee Doodle Dandy." 
 
 " The Rebels shook their head, and to one another said, 
 The bottom of this river is quite sandy, 
 
 We had better turn about, and for Norfolk quick set out, 
 For we have found the very Devil, in this little Yankee Doodle 
 Dandy." 
 
 214. "Hard Tack." 
 
 There is no necessity to tell the "boys" what this is; they all 
 remember the old chorus of the old army song about " Hard Tack : " 
 
 "Many days we have crunched you until our jaws are sore, 
 Oh ! "Soft Bread" come again once more." 
 
 2510. Fort Simmer, near Fair Oaks, Va., 1862. 
 
 This is a view ol our light field-works on the Chickahominy, 
 near Fair Oaks, in June, 1862. The men are at the guns ready to 
 receive the attack and the infantry are hurrying into line on the 
 right and left of the battery. 
 
 804. Making Coffee. On the Lines before Peters- 
 burg, Va., 1864. 
 
 This view gives a glimpse of the bomb-proofs in which our sol- 
 diers tried to live, during the long siege at Petersburg, 1864 1865; 
 the camp-fire and the coffee-kettle look as familiar as in those 
 days of yore. 
 
 49O. Crew of the Original " Monitor " on her deck. 
 
 This view shows the crew of the orginal " Monitor" on the deck 
 of that world famous little " cheese box on a raft," as the Rebels 
 contemptuously called her, until she showed them how easy she 
 could lick their famous " Merrimac." The honest Jack Tars here 
 seen can always congratula'te themselves that they took part in 
 the famous fight which revolutionized the navies of all the world. 
 
 6181. Dead Rebel Artillery Soldiers, Petersburg, Va., 
 April 2. 1865. 
 
 This is a view of some dead Rebel artillerymen, as the photog- 
 rapher found them, in the works at Petersburg, the morning the 
 place was carried by our- troops, by assault. The one in the fore- 
 ground has on belt and cartridge box probably taken from some 
 Union prisoner, as the letters U. S. are seen on the plate. 
 
 6180. Dead Rebel Artillery Soldier, Petersburg, Va., 
 April 2, 1865. 
 
 This is a dead Rebel artilleryman in the works at Petersburg; 
 his uniform is gray, trimmed with red, signifying that he belonged 
 to the artillery. The blood is pouring out of a wound in his head, 
 and his face is all covered with blood. 
 
 1245. Railroad Battery before Petersburg. 
 
 This is another battery on General Grant's Military Railroad, 
 operated the same as the mortar "Dictator" shown in view 
 No. 831. The heavy cannon is mounted on a very strong, special- 
 made car, protected with a roof of railroad iron. The car is 
 readily moved along the line and the cannon is fired whenever 
 required ; it is thus made very effective and annoying to the 
 enemy, for it is something like the Irishman's flea, "when they 
 put their hand on it, it amt there ; " in other words, when they 
 turn the fire of their batteries on the Railroad Battery, our boys 
 
 hitch on to the car and run it along out of the line of fire, and 
 commence pegging away again. By the time the " Johnnie 
 find out where the Railroad Battery is, and get the range 
 
 smash it, " it aint there " again ; the boys run it along to a new 
 stand for business. 
 
 799. The Execution of Mrs. Surratt and the Lincoln 
 
 Assassination Conspirators. 
 
 This view shows the interior of the Arsenal in the Navy Yard 
 at Washington, with the scaffold arranged for the execution. On 
 the scaffold are Mrs. Surratt and the three other condemned con- 
 spirators listening to the reading of the death warrant. 
 
 [These two views (This view and No. 800) comprise a scene of 
 much historic interest. They were made by having two separate 
 cameras set to photograph the scaffold. When the warrant was 
 being read one camera was used and this view was taken ; then 
 when the drop was sprung the second camera was used, and so 
 the entire scene of such tragic interest was photographed.] 
 
 800. The Execution of Mrs. Surratt and the Lincoln 
 
 Assassination Conspirators. 
 
 This view shows the drop sprang and Mrs. Surratt and the 
 other three conspirators hanging. 
 
 [These two views (This view and No. 799) comprise a scene of 
 much historic interest. They were made by having two separate 
 cameras set to photograph the scaffold. When the warrant was 
 being read one camera was used and that view was taken ; then 
 when the drop was sprung the second camera was used, and so 
 the entire scene of such tragic interest was photographed.]
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 6O8. Burnside Bridge, Antietam, Sept., 1862. 
 
 The assault and capture of this bridge, September 17, 1862, cost 
 the Union array the lives of many of its gallant men. The history 
 of the fight at this point is well worth reading. It will give some 
 idea of what sacrifices were made that this "Government of the 
 people, for the people, and by the people, should not perish from 
 off the face of the earth." 
 
 2597. " It is the Bean, that we mean, so white and clean." 
 
 As the "boys" look at this view we think they will sniff the old 
 familiar aroma of bean soup. 
 
 4489. Gen. O. R. Paul, shot blind at Gettysburg. 
 
 The bullet passed in at one eye and out of the other. 
 
 4634. Commodore J. r,. Worden. 
 
 He was in command of the "Monitor" when she whipped the 
 " Merrimac." 
 
 1494. Francis E. Brownell, ("Ellsworth's Avenger.") 
 
 Brownell is the Zouave who was next to Col. Ellsworth when 
 he was assassinated by the Rebel landlord of the Marshall House 
 in Alexandria; as soon as Jackson fired the shot which killed 
 Ellsworth, Brownell shot Jackson and followed up the shot with 
 a bayonet thrust, sending his bayonet entirely through Jackson's 
 body. The crape which Brownell wears on his left arm is the 
 military badge of mourning for his Colonel, Ellsworth. 
 
 1546. ,>n. John A. 1 >i v. 
 
 Author of the famous order v "If any man pulls down the 
 American Flag shoot him on the spot." 
 
 947. General U. S. Grant. 
 
 This photograph was taken just before the close of the war. It 
 is the best photograph of General Grant ever taken. 
 
 2209. Gen. 1'hil. Kearney. Photograph taken in 1862. 
 
 General Kearney was shot dead during the Battle of Chantilly, 
 Sept. 1st, 1862. This photograph was taken in July, 1862. 
 
 1312. Abraham Lincoln, President. Photograph taken 
 in 1864. 
 
 1453. Jeff. Davis. Photograph taken soon after his 
 capture. 
 
 1613. Gen. G. A. Custer. Photograph taken in 1864. 
 
 2612. Gen. J. B. McPherson, killed before Atlanta, Ga., 
 July 22, 1864. 
 
 1642. " Little Mac." Photograph taken in 1862. 
 
 2177. "Uncle John Sedgwick," (Commander of the Sixth 
 Corps. Killed at Spottsj 1 vania, Va.) 
 
 2088. Gen. Robert E. Lee. Gen. G. W. Lee. Col. Wal- 
 ter Taylor. 
 
 2090. Gen. Robert E. Lee. 
 
 2O77. Gen. Thos. J. Jackson, (" Stonewall.") 
 
 5292. Admiral Farragut. 
 
 2O22. Gen. G. H. Thomas, (" the Rock of Chickamauga.") 
 
 2O02. Get*. W. T. Sherman, (" Old Tecumseh.") 
 
 1864. Lieut. Commander \V. B. Cushing, who blew up 
 the Rebel Ram " Albermarle." 
 
 1757. Gen. G. K. Warren, Commander of the Fifth 
 Corps. 
 
 1321. Gen. N. P. Banks. 
 
 2243. Gen. W. F. (Baldy) Smith, Commander of the 
 Bloody Sixth Corps. 
 
 3845. Gen. H. W. Halleck. 
 
 2211. Gen. Lew Wallace. 
 
 2208. Edwin S. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War. 
 
 132. Dinner Party at Headquarters Army of Potomac, 
 April, 1864. 
 
 137. Headquarters 3d Army Corps, (Capt. Bates' Quar- 
 ters) April, 1864. 
 
 163. General I. I. Stevens and Staff, Beaufort, S. C., 
 March, 1862. 
 
 223. Camp in the woods near Culpepper, Va., Nov., 1863. 
 6056. Exterior view of Fort Sumter, S. C. 
 
 This view shows how this famous fort was battered by the Union 
 batteries, and also shows the method adopted by the Rebels to 
 protect the walls against the shot and shell. 
 
 248. Trossel's House, Gettysburg, July 4, 1863. 
 
 The 9th Massachusetts battery of light artillery were stationed 
 in the yard and barnyard at Trossel's place. Some idea of the 
 awful tide of battle which they met there can be inferred from 
 the fact that of the 88 horses of their battery, 65 were killed. 
 This view shows where one of their guns stood. This battery did 
 most valiant service here that day. They held the fearful charge 
 in check until our lines could be re-formed to successfully meet 
 and repel the attack. 
 
 19OO. General John A. Logan. 
 
 1922. "Fighting Joe Hooker." 
 
 " Fighting Joe Hooker," as he was called, was appointed in com- 
 mand of the Army of the Potomac, January 25, 1803, succeeding 
 Burnside. He was himself succeeded by Gen. Meadc, June 27, 1863. 
 This Photograph was taken just before he started with the Army 
 of the Potomac after General Lee up into Pennsylvania. General 
 Hooker was born in Hadley, Mass., November 13, 1814, and died 
 in Garden City, N. Y., October 31, 1879. 
 
 1955. Major General Francis C. Barlow. 
 
 2358. Union Siege Artillery " In Park " at Yorktown. 
 
 241O. Camp of the 31st Penn. at Queens Farms, Va. 
 Fort Slocum in the distance. 
 
 This view shows the style of camps in vogue in the early part 
 of the war. The tents are what was known aa " Sibley's," large 
 and comfortable ; later in the war the troops had what was called 
 "shelter tents," or in the Western army called " dog tents." 
 
 2419. Review of Col. Dwight's "Excelsior Brigade." 
 2443. Headquarters lOth Army Corps, Hatchies Run, Va. 
 2483. Belle Plain Landing, Va. A Picturesque Scene. 
 2492. Evacuation of Port Royal, Va., May 3O, 1864. 
 
 2551. Bomb-proof Quarters of Major Strong, at Dutch 
 Gap, Va., July, 1864. 
 
 3491. "Mounting Guard" in Fort Wagner, Morris 
 Island, S. C. 
 
 3494. Fort McAllister, Georgia. 
 
 This view shows the ground over which Sherman's boys charged 
 when the fort was captured. 
 
 35O7. Stockade on Morris Island where Rebel Prisoners 
 were confined. 
 
 The Rebel authorities in Charleston placed the Union prisoners 
 in confinement under fire of the Union batteries. When the 
 Union authorities learned of this treatment of our prisoners, they 
 notified the Rebels that unless our prisoners were removed to a 
 place of safety, the Rebel prisoners in our hands would be con- 
 fined in a stockade on Morris Island, where they would be under 
 fire of the Rebel batteries in and about Charleston. As the Rebel 
 authorities did not heed this warning, this stockade was built 
 and the Rebel prisoners were confined here for a time, under 
 fire of their own batteries. 
 
 3763. " If any one attempts to haul down the American 
 Flag, shoot him on the spot." 
 
 This is a photograph of the famous letter written by Gen. Dix, 
 which contains his celebrated order as above quoted. 
 
 6006. Fort Saunders, Knoxville, Tenn. 
 
 6221. Bomb-proof in the Rebel line at Petersburg, Va. 
 
 6244. View of the James River, looking east from Libby 
 Prison Hill. 
 
 ^8O. Gen. Ward, Gen. Mott, Col. Austin, Col. Brewster 
 and Col. Farnham, 2d Division, 
 3d Corps, Oct., 1863. 
 
 6612. General Hospital at City Point, Va. 
 
 6624. Picturesque view on the James River near Dutch 
 Gap Canal. 
 
 476. Waiting for the Attack. 
 
 This view shows a battery of Union artillery in position, near 
 Mrs. Clark's house, Fair Oaks, Va., June 27, 1SG2. 
 
 653. Gen. Sedgwick, Colonel Sackett and Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Colburn, Harrison's Landing, Va., 
 August, i si;:;. 
 
 1049. General Burnside and Staff, November, 1862. 
 
 1467. Gen. George G. Meade, Commander of the Army 
 of the Potomac. 
 
 General Meade commanded the Army of the Potomac from 
 June 27, 1803, till the close of the war. The celebrated battle of 
 Gettysburg was fought under his command, and there, as else- 
 where, he proved to be a sure and safe commander; he is well 
 remembered by all of the old hoys of the Army of the Potomac 
 who survive him; he was horn in Cadiz, Spain, December 31, Isl5, 
 and died in Philadelphia, Penn., November G, 1872. 
 
 1551. General Don Carlos Buel. 
 17O2. General Daniel E. Sickles.
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 List of Large Views. 
 
 The following named views (on pages 10, 11, 12 and 13) are NOT stereoscopic, tut are mounted SINGLE on handsome, 
 round-cornered, red-bordered " mounts " 9 s 11 inches in size. 
 
 The Price of tie Views named on paps 10, 11, 12 and 13 is 75 cents each, or $8,00 per dozen, 
 
 If you want STEREOSCOPIC views you must order them from the lists on pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, 
 
 If you want views mounted SINGLE, 9x11 inches in size, you must order them 
 
 from the lists on the following pages : (10, 11, 12 and 13.) 
 
 In a few cases -we happen to have a view of the same subject in both sizes, for example : you will note on page 7 
 among the stereoscopic list, that No. 6161 is a view of Libby Prison: you will also find in the 9 x 11 list on page 
 13, No. 7557, is Libby Prison. 
 
 It happens in this way: when the photographers were taking this picture they made two "negatives" of the 
 same scene ; one of the "negatives " is a stereoscopic (4x7,) and the other " negative " is a single (9x11;) therefore 
 we can supply that particular view either in stereoscopic (4 x 7) or single (9 x 11 ;) there are also a few other views 
 on the lists which we can furnish in either size as desired ; but we cannot take a 9 x 11 " negative " and make a 
 stereoscopic (4 x 7) view from it, nor vice versa ; we are thus explicit about this, because heretofore we have had 
 much trouble caused by persons who order stereoscopic views from the list of large views, or large views from the 
 list of stereoscopic. 
 
 The following named views were photographed near Rappahannoch 
 Station, Virginia, during the early part of the year 1864. 
 
 7461. Camp of 50th New York Engineers. 
 
 7290. Sutler's Hut, 5Oth New York Engineers. 
 
 7293. Quarters of Field and Staff, 50th N. Y. Engineers. 
 
 The following named views were photographed near Culpepper, 
 Virginia, during the autumn of the year 1863. 
 
 7334. Battery "A" 4th U. S. Artillery. 
 
 7245. Battery "M" 2d U. S. Artillery. 
 
 7501. General W. H. French and Staff. 
 
 7071. Offlcersof 80th New York Infantry, (2Oth N.Y.S.M.) 
 
 The following named views were photographed near Brandy Sta- 
 tion, Virginia, where the Army of the Potomac had their win- 
 ter quarters during the winter of 18631864. 
 
 7495. Camp at Headquarters Army of the Potomac. 
 
 7352. Colonel Wilson, Chief Commissary. 
 7611. Band of 114th Penn. Infantry. 
 
 7613. Guard Mounting of 114th Penn. Infantry. 
 
 7308. Camp of the 114th Penn. Vols. Winter Quarters. 
 7625. Camp of 18th Penn. Cavalry. 
 
 7389. Company "D " 3d Penn. Cavalry, (dismounted.) 
 
 7353. Camp of Military Telegraph Corps. 
 74O2. Provost Marshals of 3d Army Corps. 
 7129. Detachment of 1st U. S. Cavalry. 
 7265. Camp of 6th New York Artillery. 
 73O1. Field Hospital, 1st Division, 2d Corps. 
 7306. Field Hospital, 2d Division, 2d Corps. 
 7632. Field Hospital, of 3d Division, 2d Corps. 
 
 7309. Winter Quarters in 3d Corps. 
 
 7310. Camp of U. S. Engineer Battalion. 
 
 70O5. Quarters of Company " D " U. S. Engineers. 
 
 7068. Detachment of 3d Indiana Cavalry; Army Head- 
 quarters. 
 
 7637. Headquarters 1st Brigade of Horse Artillery (pop- 
 ularly called "Flying Artillery.") 
 
 7157. Winter Quarters, 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery, 
 
 During the winter of 18631864 the Army of the Potomac was in 
 winter quarters near Brandy Station, Va. This view is a charac- 
 teristic scene. The log hut, with the crevices plastered up with 
 Virginia mud, the log chimney and the pork barrel on top of it to 
 help the draft, it is a vivid reminder of those days of the war. 
 
 The following views were photographed on the lines before Peters- 
 burg, Virginia, during the summer of 1864, and the winter 
 of 18641866. 
 
 7633. Fort Sedgwick. 
 
 7534. Bomb-proofs in Fort Sedgwick. 
 
 7487. MaJ. Eckert and Group of Military Telegrapher*. 
 
 7497. General Bnfus Ingalls and Staff. 
 
 7526. General O. B. Wilcox and Staff. 
 
 7602. Officers of 114th Penn. Infantry. 
 
 7447. Company "F" 114th Penn. Infantry. 
 
 7348. Company "G" 114th Penn. Infantry. 
 
 7263. Company "H" 114th Penn. Infantry. 
 
 7384. Company "A" U. S. Engineers. 
 
 7570. Company "B" U. S. Engineers. 
 
 7568. Company " C " U. S. Engineers. 
 
 7548. Company "D" U. S. Engineers. 
 
 7295. Company "C" 1st Mass. Cavalry. 
 
 7392. Company "D" 1st Mass. Cavalry. 
 
 7391. Non-commissioned Officers, 1st Mass. Cavalry. 
 
 7439. Essayons Dramatic Club, U. S. Engineers. 
 
 7543. Camp of 2d Wisconsin Infantry. 
 
 7575. Surgeons of the 2d Division, 9th Corps. 
 
 7042. Surgeons of the 3d Division, 9th Corps. 
 
 7046. Surgeons of the 4th Division, 9th Corps. 
 
 7052. Field and Staff 39th U. S. Colored Infantry. 
 
 7445. Non-commissioned Officers of General Grant's 
 Escort. 
 
 7298. Camp of 3d Penn. Cavalry, Headquarters Army 
 of the Potomac. 
 
 7059. Headquarters 5Oth New York Engineers. 
 
 This is a view of Colonel Spaulding's quarters. Pine boughs 
 have been interwoven into a handsome design for the front 
 entrance. Over the entrance is the well-known engineer corps 
 badge woven with the same material. Pieces of canvas are 
 stretched over the ridge-pole, and this completes the regimental 
 headquarters. Colonel Spaulding stands in the doorway. 
 
 7463. Thirteen-inch Mortar "Dictator." 
 
 This large sea-coast mortar is mounted on a special flat-car 
 made very strong for this purpose. This mortar-car is on General 
 Grant's military railroad at Petersburg. The car is readily moved 
 along the line and the mortar is fired whenever required ; it is 
 thus made very effective and annoying to the enemy, for it 
 something like the Irishman's flea, "when they put their hand 
 on it, it ain't there ; " in other words, when they turn the fire of 
 their batteries on the " Dictator," our boys hitch on to the car and 
 run it along out of the line of fire and commence pegging away 
 again.
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 74OO. Gen. Robert Nugent and Commanding Officers of 
 
 Regiments in Irish Brigade, on the 
 
 Petersburg Line. 
 
 7339. "John Henry." Contraband at Headquarters, 
 Army of Potomac. 
 
 7123. Harper's Ferry, Maryland Heights, and London 
 Heights. 
 
 7222. Headquarters of Gen. O. II. Wllcox, In front of 
 Petersburg, August, 1864. 
 
 7934. Military Telegraph Wagon, for field Telegraphy. 
 
 Shows the Telegraph operator sending a message from the 
 wagon. 
 
 8O88. On the Lines, near Atlanta. 
 
 This is the "Potter House" on the Rebel lines near Atlanta. 
 The sharpshooters of the enemy posted themselves in the upper 
 rooms and on the roof of this house overlooking the Union lines, 
 and thus greatly annoying our troops and killing many of our 
 men during the battle of July 22. 1864. Finally a battery of light 
 artillery was brought up, and quickly made the house untenable 
 for sharpshooters or any one else. 
 
 7303. Second Corps Mail Wagon. 
 
 The sight of this wagon coming into the Camps of the old second 
 corps always gladdened the hearts of the boys. It came loaded 
 with letters from home, how welcome these were, none but the 
 weary and heart-sick soldiers can ever know. Some letters had 
 to be returned with a line or two written across the envelope, like 
 this: "killed yesterday," or, "died in the hospital last week," 
 or, " missing." 
 
 7557. Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. 
 
 This is a view of the infamous Libby Prison, where so many of 
 our Union soldiers suffered and starved during the war. It would 
 take volumes to tell the story of Libby Prison. It was an old to- 
 bacco warehouse which the Rebels converted into a prison for 
 Union soldiers. There is not a Grand Army Post through all our 
 land but what has among its members some comrade who knows 
 from experience just what a " hell hole " this place was. 
 
 71 10. Ruins of Richmond, April 12, 1865. 
 
 When the Rebel army was forced to evacuate their Capitol at 
 Richmond, they set tire to the city, exploded the powder in their 
 magazines, and did their worst to entirely destroy the city. The 
 Union troops came in as conquerors and immediately set to work 
 with a will to extinguish the fires, and save as much of the city as 
 possible, but before the fire could be quenched, over 700 buildings 
 were in the ruins. This is a view of a portion of the ruins. 
 
 7258. 
 
 Horrors of "War. 
 
 A Union soldier killed by a shell at Gettysburg, July 3, 18G3. 
 His arm was torn off, and can be seen on the ground near his mus- 
 ket, and entirely separated from his body. The shell also com- 
 pletely disemboweled the poor fellow, and killed him so quick that 
 he never knew what struck him. Think of a battlefield covering 
 nearly twenty-five square miles, and covered with thousands of 
 dead, many of them mangled even worse than this one and you 
 can have a faint idea of Gettysburg in the early days of July, 1863. 
 
 7285. Ambulance Drill. 
 
 This view shows the method of removing the wounded from the 
 field by the ambulance corps. In no previous war in the history 
 of the world was so much done to alleviate suffering as in the war 
 of 18611865. But notwithstanding all that was done, the wound- 
 ed suffered horribly. After any great battle it required several 
 days and nights of steady work ere all the wounded were gathered 
 up, and no pen or tongue can tell how they suffered while waiting 
 for the ambulance corps. 
 
 7055. In Trossel's Barnyard, Gettysburg. 
 
 The 9th Massachusetts battery of light artillery were stationed 
 in the yard and barnyard at Trossel's place. Some idea of the aw- 
 ful tide of battle which they met there can be inferred from the 
 fact that of the 88 horses of their battery, 05 were killed. This 
 view shows where one of their guns stood. This battery did most 
 valiant service here that day. They held the fearful charge in 
 check until our lines could be re-formed to successfully meet and 
 repel the attack. 
 
 7946. Union Dead at Gettysburg ; killed by Cannister. 
 
 A group of Union dead on the right of the Federal lines on the 
 first day's fight, July 1, 1863. These soldiers were killed by one 
 discharge of "cannister" from a Rebel gun during a charge. 
 " Cannister" is a tin can filled with small balls about tne size or a 
 marble. When the cannon is fired the force of the discharge 
 bursts open the can, and the shower of cannister balls sweep every 
 thing before it. "Cannister" is used at short range, and is fear- 
 fully effective. 
 
 7212. Rebel Winter Quarters at Centreville, Va., 1862. 
 
 During the winter of 18611862 the Rebel army of Northern Vir- 
 ginia were in winter quarters at Centrevijle, Va., and this is a view 
 of their quarters, which, by the way, were much better than 
 either army were accustomed to have during the later winters of 
 the war. 
 
 7948. President Lincoln and Gen. McClelhiu in Mc- 
 Clellan's Tent, Antietam, Oct. 3, 1862. 
 
 During the visit of President Lincoln to the Army of the Poto- 
 mac in the early part of October, 1862, several views of the Presi- 
 dent were obtained by the photographer. This view shows the 
 President and " Little Mac " seated in General McClellan's tent 
 with maps and plans on the table before them discussing the sit- 
 uation, October 3, 1862. 
 
 7191. 
 
 McLean's House, where Lee Surrendered. 
 
 This is the scene of General Lee's surrender to General Grant, 
 April 9, 1865. It was within this house owned by a Mr. McLean, 
 and situated near Appomattox Court House, that the surrender 
 was signed. This great historic event took place in the front 
 room on the left of the door as you enter the house. 
 
 7926. CoUecting Remains of the Dead, Cold Harbor. 
 
 This is a ghastly view showing the process of collecting the re- 
 mains of Union soldiers who were hastily buried at the time of the 
 battle. This is a scene on the battlefield months after the battle, 
 when the Government ordered the remains gathered for perma- 
 nent burial. The grinning skulls, the boot still hanging on the 
 fleshiest! bones, the old canteen on the skeleton, all testify to the 
 hasty burial after the battle. Looking on this scene you-can easi- 
 ly understand why, in all National cemeteries, there are so great 
 a number of graves marked " unknown." These are the " un- 
 known" heroes of the war, who "died that our Nation might 
 live." 
 
 7942. Dead Rebel Sharpshooter at Gettysburg. 
 
 In their attempt to silence Hazlett's Battery, which was posted 
 on the summit of Little Round Top, the Rebels pushed their 
 sharpshooters up among the rocks at the foot of Round Top. It 
 was a shot from one of these sharpshooters that mortally wound- 
 ed General Weed, who was directing the movement of his troops 
 from the summit of Round Top. Lieut. Hazlett, commanding the 
 battery which was posted there, was an old schoolmate of General 
 Weed. He hastened to the side of the dying General to take his 
 last message, when he, too, fell dead, pierced by a ball from the 
 dreaded sharpshooter. Then the guns of the battery were turned 
 on the " Devil's den," as it was aptly called, and many of the 
 sharpshooters were killed. This view shows one of them. 
 
 7491. Big Round Top, Gettysburg. 
 
 Two hills called Big Round Top and little Round Top formed 
 the left of the Union line during that great battle. This view 
 
 gives a glimpse of Big Round Top. The stone wall in the fore- 
 ground is a breastwork ha - ' 
 
 July 2, 1863. 
 
 lastily constructed by the Union troops, 
 
 7916. Armory Square Hospital Chapel, Washington. 
 
 Thousands of Army of the Potomac boys will remember 
 Armory Square Hospital, in Washington. This scene with the 
 beautiful dome of the Capitol in the background is a handsome 
 souvenir of that great hospital, where so many of the " boys in 
 blue " were carried from the battlefields of Virginia. 
 
 7949. President Lincoln, Major Allen Pinkerton and 
 Gen. McClernard, Antietam, October, 1862. 
 
 The central figure in this scene is, of course, President Lincoln. 
 Comparatively few of this generation have any clear idea how 
 Mr. Lincoln really looked. This view is a valuable and rare 
 picture ; it was photographed at headquarters Army of the Poto- 
 mac, Antietam, Md., October 3, 1862. The officer in uniform is 
 General McClernard, and the short, rather insignificant looking 
 man on the other side of President Lincoln is Allen Pinkerton, 
 chief of secret service, Army of the Potomac, and the father of 
 the now famous Pinkerton Detectives. In the army he was 
 known only as " Major Allen." 
 
 7599. Scouts and Guides, Army of the Potomac. 
 
 A large number of brave and shrewd men were employed as 
 scouts and guides for the Army. This view shows a group of 
 some of these scouts and guides. Photographed April 2, 1864, 
 Brandy Station, Va. 
 
 7512. Company "A" 93d N. Y. Infantry, August, 1863. 
 7453. " "B" 
 
 7591. " "D" 
 
 7455. " "E" 
 
 7594. "F" " " " 
 
 7459. " "G" " 
 
 7593. " "I" " " 
 
 7009. " "K" " " 
 
 7514. "Drum Corps" " " " 
 
 The Company views of the old 93d New York, are so clear that 
 any survivor of that well know regiment can pick out his com- 
 rades almost as well as if they were in line before him. This 
 view was taken at Bealton, Va., in August, 1863. At the 
 request of the New York Tribune we publish these company 
 views for the benefit of our New York comrades who will keenly 
 appreciate this photographic muster of the old regiment, years 
 after most of the veterans of the old 93d are dead ; those of the 
 regiment who still survive will take great pleasure in " looking 
 backwards " more than a quarter of a century into the laoes of 
 their comrades of the war.
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 The following named uiews were photographed near Falmouth, Vir- 
 ginia, in the early part of the year 1863. 
 
 7523. Ambulance Train of Engineer Brigade. 
 
 752O. Drum Corps of Gist New York Infantry. 
 
 7313. Company "I>" Gist New York Infantry. 
 
 7554. Company "G" Gist New York Infantry. 
 
 7556. Company " K " Gist New York Infantry. 
 
 714O. Company "I" 6th Penn. Cavalry (Rush's Lancers.) 
 
 7740. Non-commissioned Officers, 13th N. Y. Cavalry. 
 775O. Commissioned Officers, 28th Mass. Infantry. 
 
 7642. Officers of the 60th New York. ("Negative" is 
 slightly damaged) 
 
 4O46. General W. H. Slocum and Staff. 
 
 4048. I'liil. Sheridan and his Generals. 
 
 4O57. Old "Tecumseh" (Sherman) and his Generals. 
 
 4054. General Frank I'. Ulair and Staff. 
 
 8093. Keiiesaw Mountain. 
 
 7657. Chain Bridge, Potomac Kiver. 
 
 7951. President Lincoln, Oeii. McClellaii, and a large 
 group of Officers at Headquarters Army of 
 the Potomac, Aittietam, Oct. 4, 1862. 
 
 7112. Camp of the "Om-ida" Cavalry, Headquarters 
 Army of the Potomac, March, 1865. 
 
 7744. Company "V" 3d Mass. Artillery, Fort Stevens. 
 
 7874. Company " H " 3d Mass. Artillery, Fort Lincoln. 
 
 7O47. Company "D v 149th Penn. Infantry, Nov. 6, 1864. 
 
 768O. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis and Staff. 
 
 8680. Group of Marines, Washington Navy Yard, April, 
 1864. 
 
 7715. Home of the Sanitary Commission. 
 
 7711. The Welcome Visitor; Sanitary Commission 
 Wagon. 
 
 7750. Officers of the 26th Mass. Infantry. 
 
 7758. Gen. John T. Hartraiift and Staff, (in charge of 
 the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators' Exe- 
 cution) July, 1865. 
 
 789O. Company "K" 4th U. S. Colored Infantry, Fort 
 Lincoln, Va. 
 
 7927. Frederickslmrg, Va., December, 1862. 
 7945. Admiral I). D. Porter, on deck of Flagship. 
 
 7947. General IT. S. Grant. A very fine Photograph, 
 May, 1865. 
 
 7971. Slaughter Pen at foot of Little Round Top. 
 Dead bodies of the slain among the rocks. 
 
 7507. Head quarters Army of the Potomac near Fair- 
 fax, Va., June, 1863. 
 
 7516. General Kilpatrick and Staff, Stevensburg, Va., 
 March, 1864. 
 
 7563. Signal T< 
 
 7374. Officers of the Signal Corps, Warrenton, Va., 
 October, 1863. 
 
 7468. " Major Allen." (This is tho old man Allen Pink- 
 erton, Cbief of the Secret Service.) 
 
 8085. Generals of the Cavalry Corps ; Sheridan, Wilson, 
 Gregg, Davis, Torbert ami Merritt. 
 
 7818. Battery "M" 9th New York Artillery. 
 
 (This was formerly the Twenty-second New York Battery.) 
 
 7419. The "Lincoln Gun" at Fortress Monroe, Va., De- 
 cember 3, 1864. 
 
 7938. 93d New York Infantry, at Autietam, Md. 
 
 8112. Missionary Ridge. 
 
 8118. Lookout Mountain. 
 
 7672. JZdN.Y. Artillery, (Co. "F") at Fort C. F. Smith. 
 
 7673. 2d N. Y. Artillery, (Co. L") at Fort C. F. Smith. 
 7675. 2d N. Y. Artillery, (Co. "K") at Fort C. F. Smith. 
 7722. Headquarters 13th N. Y. Cavalry, Prospect Hill. 
 
 7735. 13th N. Y. Cavalry on Inspection, Prospect Hill. 
 
 7736. Signal Station of 13th N. Y. Cavalry, Prospect Hill. 
 
 7912. The Rebel Ram "Stonewall" after her capture. 
 
 744O. A view in Fort Fisher, North Carolina, just after 
 its capture, 1865. 
 
 8000. FortSumter, August 13, 1863, showing effect of 
 
 "trial shots." 
 
 8001. Fort Sumter, August 23, 1863, showing effect of 
 
 " bombardment." 
 
 8018. The " Swamp Angel " on Morris Island, S. C. 
 
 8O21. Headquarters of "Field Officer" in the Trenches, 
 Morris Island. S. C. 
 
 8023. A " full sap " in the Trenches, Morris Island, S. C. 
 
 8053. General Grant and Staff at Cold Harbor. 
 
 701O. 17th N. Y. Battery, near Washington, June, 1 863. 
 
 7517. Company " C " 41st N. Y. Infantry, Manassas, Va. 
 
 7252. Generals of the Army of the Potomac. 
 
 7349. Major H. W. Sawyer and Staff, Commanding Camp 
 Stoneman, D. C.. March, 1865. 
 
 76O3. Gen. Pleasonton and Staff, Warrenton, Va., Oc- 
 tober, 1863. 
 
 7374. Officers of Signal Corps, Headquarters Army of 
 the Potomac, Warrenton, Va., October, 1863. 
 
 7388. Company "D" 149th Penn. Infantry, Nov., 1864. 
 
 7401. Surgeon Hawks 50th New York Engineers, Nov- 
 ember, 1864. 
 
 7464. Officers of 4th Penn. Cavalry, Westover Landing, 
 Va., August, 1862. 
 
 7477. Officers of 50th Penn. Infantry, Fort Craig, July, 
 1865. 
 
 7479. Officers of Company " F " 2d New York Artillery. 
 
 7486. Officers of 3d Penn. Artillery, Fortress Monroe, 
 Va.. Dec., 1864. 
 
 7503. 8th U. S. Infantry, Provost Guard, Fairfax Court 
 House, Va., June, 1863. 
 
 7531. Officers of 61st New York Infantry. 
 
 7545. Headquarters 6th Corps, near Yellow Tavern, 
 Va., February, 1865. 
 
 7559. Officers of 17th New York Battery, June, 1863. 
 7605. Captain Alexander, 80th New York Infantry. 
 
 7403. Captain E. A. Flint, 1st Mass. Cavalry, Head- 
 quarters Army of the Potomac, November, 1864. 
 
 7182. "Hard Tack and Salt Hoss," Cedar Level, Va., 
 August, 1864. 
 
 7178. Officers of 4th New York Artillery. 
 7185. Officers of 13th New York Cavalry. 
 7253. Sergeants of 3d Mass. Artillery, Fort Totten, Va. 
 
 7261. Commissioned Officers 3d Mass. Artillery, Fort 
 Totten. Va. 
 
 7267. Field and Staff 69th Penn. Infantry. 
 
 7282. Officers of Companies "F" and "K" 3d Mass. 
 
 Artillery, Fort Stevens, Va. 
 
 7283. Company "F" 2d New York Artillery. 
 
 7025. Dress Parade of the 50th Penn. Infantry, Gettys- 
 burg, Pa., July, 1865. 
 
 7035. Officers of 63d New York Infantry. 
 
 7O58. Dress Parade of the 3d Penn. Artillery, Fortress 
 Monroe, Va., Dec., 1864. 
 
 7371. General Custer and General Pleasonton, 1862. 
 
 These two Generals were well-known cavalry officers of the 
 Army of the Potomac. 
 
 7383. Grape-vine Bridge on the Chickahominy River, 
 June 18, 1862. 
 
 This well-remembered corduroy bridge was built by the sol- 
 diers during the peninsula campaign. 
 
 7886. Interior of an Army Hospital, 1864. 
 
 This view shows the interior of one of the wards ("K ") of the 
 well-known Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D. C. 
 
 7382. General Burnside and Staff. 
 
 This is a view of General A. E. Burnside and Staff taken in 
 December, 1862, a short time after the disastrous battle of Fred- 
 ericksburg. 
 
 7426. Blockade Runner "Teazer" after her capture. 
 
 The blockade runner " Teazer " was captured by the Union gun- 
 boat "Maritanza" July 4, 1862. This is a view of the " Teazer " 
 soon after her capture.
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 This battery was (at the date above given) the heavies 
 f artillery ever mounted in the world ; it consisted of 
 
 7816. The Sutler's Tent. 
 
 The "dearest spot" to the soldier was the sutler's tent. The 
 sutler's goods were so dear that it took all of a soldier's pay to keep 
 him in condensed milk and tobacco. 
 
 7963. "Old Tecumseh" and Staff. 
 
 The survivors of " the march to the sea" will find many familiar 
 faces in this group. General William Tecumseh Sherman and 
 his Staff, photographed in July, 1864. 
 
 81OO. Alatoona Pass, Ga., where "Hold the Fort" orig- 
 inated. 
 
 This is a view of the famous Alatoona Pass, and the fort on top 
 of the hill is where General Corse received the now famous mes- 
 sage from Gen. Sherman to " Hold the Fort." 
 
 7519. Camp Scene on the Famunky River, 1862. 
 
 The camps of the Army of the Potomac covered many square 
 miles. This is a picturesque view of a camp at Cumberland 
 Landing, on the Pamunky River, Va., in May, 1862. 
 
 80O6. Three-hundred pounder on Morris Island. 
 
 This gun had its muzzle burst off, as here shown, by one of its 
 own shells, which exploded just as it left the muzzle of the gun. 
 As the gun was very useful it was roughly repaired by chisseling 
 off the roughest parts of the fracture, and then it was used as 
 though nothing had happened to it. 
 
 8106. "Where General McPherson was Killed at Atlanta. 
 
 This is the place on the battlefield of Atlanta. Ga., where the 
 gallant Gen. McPherson was killed, July 22, 1864. There was a 
 small gap at this point, between the 16th and 17th corps; McPher- 
 son did not know of this fatal gap, and he rode through, directly 
 into the enemy's line. 
 
 7935. Battery No. 1, before Yorktown, Va., April, 1862. 
 
 t battery 
 of five 100- 
 
 pounder and two 200-pounder Parrot rifled cannon; this battery 
 was the wonder of the whole army, and was visited by thousands 
 of persons to see the guns fired. The shots from these guns were 
 effective in hurrying the evacuation of Yorktown by the Rebels. 
 The battery was manned by company "B" First Connecticut 
 Heavy Artillery. 
 
 7950. General Joe Hooker and Staff, June, 1863. 
 
 " Fighting Joe Hooker" as he was called, was appointed in com- 
 mand of the Army of the Potomac. January 25, 1863, succeeding 
 Burnside. He was himself succeeded by Gen. Meade, June 27, 18<>3. 
 This Photograph was taken just before he started with the Army 
 of the Potomac after General Lee up into Pennsylvania. General 
 Hooker was born in Hadley, Mass., November 13, 1814, and died 
 in Garden City, N. Y., October 31, 1879. 
 
 7367. General Meade and Staff, October, 1863. 
 
 General Meade commanded the Army of the Potomac from 
 June 27, 1863, till the close of the war. The celebrated battle of 
 Gettysburg was fought under his command, and there as else- 
 where, he proved to be a sure and safe commander ; he is well re- 
 membered by all of the old boys of the Army of the Potomac who 
 survive him ; he was born in Cadiz, Spain, December 31, 1815, and 
 died in Philadelphia, Penn., November 6, 1872. 
 
 7969. Little Bound Top, Gettysburg, July, 1863. 
 
 It has been said that if Little Round Top had not been there 
 the Union army would have lost the great battle of Gettysburg; 
 certain it is that it was a most important point, and it was seized 
 by Vincent's Brigade of the Fifth corps, who, under the personal 
 command of General Warren, gained the hill not a moment too 
 soon, for a division of the Rebels were hurrying to take possession 
 of it when Warren reached the summit. It made for the Union 
 army an impregnable left wing, which the Rebels tried in vain to 
 turn. 
 
 7964. Union Dead on the Field of Gettysburg. 
 
 This photograph was taken July 4, 1863, and it gives some idea 
 of how the battlefield looked before the dead were gathered up 
 and hurried. It is to be regretted that this "negative" has un- 
 dergone such chemical changes that the picture is no longer as 
 clear as could be desired, but as this is so realistic a scene we 
 know that it will be appreciated as the only photograph of this 
 part of the field now in existence, with the dead still on the field. 
 It was near the extreme left of the Union lines. 
 
 7824. Long Bridge, Washington, I>. C., 1864. 
 
 All soldiers of the Army of the Potomac will remember Long 
 Bridge. The sentinel on duty, and the sergeant of the -guard 
 ready to examine the pass, are vivid reminders of those " days 
 that tried men's souls" when we "boys" tried to get over to Wash- 
 ington on a " French Pass" and got run into the guard house. 
 
 7314. Post-offlce, Headquarters Army of the Potomac. 
 
 Letters from the loved ones at home were most welcome to the 
 soldiers, and the Government provided as good iacilities as possi- 
 ble for the mails, but sometimes weeks and months would pass 
 without our mail finding us; when it did come there would be a 
 regular feast, for it would bring manv letters ; the only sad feature 
 being the calling out of a letter for some comrade who had been 
 killed. This Post-office is at Falmouth, Va., April, 1863. 
 
 7268. Army "Wagon Train In Park. 
 
 The supply trains of the great army numbered thousands of 
 six mule teams and when on the march the trains would stretch 
 out for miles. This is a photograph of the wagon train of simply 
 one division of one corps. As there were three divisions in each 
 corps, and there were many corps in the army, some idea can be 
 had of the immense size of the crams by looking at this view. 
 The wagons are "parked" in this way so they can be more readily 
 guarded from a " raid " or dash by the enemy's cavalry. 
 
 71 6O. Pontoon Boat on wheels, ready for the march. 
 
 The army carried its bridges with it, ready to instantly replace 
 such of the regular bridges as were destroyed by the enemy. 
 The army bridges were made of pontoon boats, like this, which 
 were anchored in the river in a line, parallel with the current, so 
 as to form a foundation for the timbers and road-bed. 
 
 7616. "Castle Thunder," Richmond, Va. 
 
 This is a building which was used by the Rebels as a prison to 
 confine Union soldiers. Its history is almost as damnable as that 
 
 of Libby Prison. The horrors o 
 
 ry is almc 
 f both " 
 
 Castle Thunder " and 
 
 Libby Prison will be vividly remembered as long as any sole 
 who was therein confined shall live. 
 
 794O. Army Blacksmith and Forge, Antletam, Septem- 
 ber, 1862. 
 
 Each battery of artillery and each squadron of cavalry were 
 provided with a forge, mounted on heavy wheels, similar to a 
 piece of artillery. This forge travelled with the army, and tlie 
 artificer in charge of the forge attended to shoeing the horses, and 
 repairing the iron-work of the gun-carriages and baggage- wagons. 
 He always had plenty of business, and this view shows him en- 
 gaged shoeing the horses. 
 
 7040. " Hard Tack'" Acquia Creek, February, 1863. 
 
 There is no necessity to tell the "boys" what this is; they all 
 remember the chorus of the old army song about " hard tack :" 
 
 " Many days we have crunched you until our jaws are sore, 
 Oh ! " soft bread " come again once more." 
 
 7796. The Execution of Mrs. Surratt and the Lincoln 
 Assassination Conspirators, (Heading the warrant.) 
 
 This view shows the scaffold arranged for the execution. On 
 the scaffold are Mrs. Surratt and the three other conspirators lis- 
 tening to the reading of the death warrant. 
 
 7797. The Execution of Mrs. Surratt and the Lincoln 
 Assassination Conspirators, (Adjusting tin- noose.) 
 
 This view shows the scene on the scaffold while the officers are 
 adjusting the nooses around the necks of the condemned. 
 
 7798. The Execution of Mrs. Surratt and the Lincoln 
 
 Assassination Conspirators, (The drop.) 
 
 This view shows the scaffold just as the drop was sprung; Mrs. 
 Surratt and the other three conspirators are hanging. 
 
 [These three views, Nos. 7790,7797, and 7708 comprise a scene of 
 much historic interest. They were made by having three separate 
 cameras set to photograph the scattbld. When the warrant was 
 being read one camera was used and that view was taken; while 
 the ropes were being placed around their necks another camera 
 was used and that scene taken ; then when the drop was sprung 
 the third camera was used, and so the entire scene of such tragic 
 interest was photographed clear and distinct.] 
 
 7752. Execution of Captain Wirtz, the Keeper of Ander- 
 
 sonville Prison, (Reading the warrant.) 
 
 The single life of Captain Wirtz (the notorious and brutal keep- 
 er of that awful prison pen at Andersonville) could never atone 
 for his many crimes against humanity. He was convicted of 
 brutally murdering helpless Union prisioners at Andersonville. 
 He was sentenced to death. Here he stands, on the scaffold in 
 the yard of the Old Capitol prison in Washington, listening to the 
 reading of his death warrant. 
 
 7753. Execution of Captain Wirtz, the Keeper of Ander- 
 
 sonville Prison, (Adjusting the noose.) 
 
 This view shows the scene on the scaffold at the moment the 
 noose is being adjusted around his neck. 
 
 7 755. Execution of Captain Wirtz, the Keeper of Ander- 
 sonville Prison, (The drop.) 
 
 This view shows the scene on the scaffold in the yard of the 
 Old Capitol prison in Washington, just after the drop fell, and 
 while Wirtz is hanging. 
 
 [These three views, 7752, 7753, and 7755 comprise a scene of 
 much historic interest. They were made by having three separate 
 cameras set to photograph the scaffold, when the warrant was 
 being read one camera was used and that view wa.s taken; while 
 the rope was being placed around his neck another camera was 
 used and that scene was taken ; then when the drop was sprung 
 the third camera was used, and so the entire scene of such tragic 
 interest was photographed clear and distinct.] 
 
 7930. Burnside Bridge, Antietam, September, 1862. 
 
 The assultand capture of this bridge, September 17, 1862, cost 
 the Union army the lives of many of its gallant men. The his- 
 tory of the fight at this point is well worth reading. It will give 
 some idea of what sacrifices were made that this "Government ol 
 the people, for the people, and by the people, should not perish 
 from off the face of the earth."
 
 14 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
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 Stcreopticons arc made double, and single. 
 
 A double stereopticon produces the dissolving view effect on the canvas ; a single stereopticon will 
 not produce the dissolving view etFect. 
 
 A .sv'rt//^' Htereopticon makes just as clear and good and just as large a view on the canvas as the 
 double stereopticon does, except that it does not produce the dissolving effect. 
 
 The double stereopticon is arranged for oxy-hydrogen gas, and is calculated for an exhibitor who 
 intends to show in large places only. Of course it can be used in small places if desired. 
 
 The single stereopticon is arranged for both oxy-hydrogen gas and oil, so that if the exhibitor is to 
 show in an opera-house or large hall he can use oil or gas, but if he is to show in a small hall, a school- 
 house, or church, he can use oil, which is cheaper than gas. 
 
 The Avar views (or "slides," as they are called,) which are used in the stereopticon are made on glass, 
 either plain or colored, as desired. We refer to "slides" made from our real original, war negatives, 
 taken during the war by the Government Photographer. There is also on the market what is known as 
 "stock slides," which are views made from engravings or paintings, and are, of course, imaginary 
 scenes; whereas the "slides" made from our real war photographs are accurate and realistic views of 
 the Avar as it really looked. The real Avar A'ieAv " slides " are made only by us from the original photo- 
 grapJiic negatives, and only for our exhibitors, and are not for sale by dealers. We do not keep a supply 
 of the Avar " slides " on hand, but make them specially to order. 
 
 In making up an assortment of "slides," it is well to have about one in five colored. A good outfit 
 is made up as folloAvs : 
 
 Single Stereopticon, fitted for both oil and gas, $ 55.OO 
 
 54 Main" Slides" $1.5O each, ------ 81.OO 
 
 3 Statuary Groups, war subjects, @ 75 cents each, - 2.25 
 
 14 Colored "Slides " $2.5O each, 35.OO 
 
 fifteen-foot Curtain, strongly made, _____ 7.50 
 
 10OO Admission Tickets, 1.5O 
 
 1OOO Reserved Seat Tickets, with coupon checks, - 1.75 
 
 25O Window JIangcrs, in colors, ______ 4.OO 
 
 Total cost of outfit, \cith SINGLE stereopticon fitted for oil and gas, - - $188.00 
 
 fill tie outfit we furnisl a descriptive tali or lecture explaining tie war scenes, 
 
 When you get well started Avith the single stereopticon outfit you will soon wish to have a double 
 stereopticon, so, that you can giA^e the dissolving AUCAV exhibitions and extend your business to large 
 toAvns and cities ; all that Avill be necessary for you to do will be to purchase another single stereopticon 
 and connect it Avith the one you have, by a dissolving key, and you will have the complete dissolving 
 vieAV double stereopticon. The other stereopticon Avill cost $55, the same as the first one, and you will 
 also need a dissolving key, which costs 8 12 ; this added to the $ 188, Avhich you paid for the single stere- 
 optieon outfit, makes the total cost of outfit, complete Avith double dissolving view stereopticon, $255. 
 (The "slides" which you get with the single stereopticon outfit are used with the double stereopticon 
 also, therefore no change of "slides" need be made Avhen you go to Avork with the double dissolving 
 view stereoptieon.) 
 
 There are several first-class opticians in this country Avho make good stereopticons. We have spent 
 considerable time in examining and testing various makes of stereopticons, and we haA T e come to the 
 conclusion that the " Charles Beseler" is the best. For this reason we use it ourselves in giving our 
 exhibitions, and recommend it to any one who desires a first-class instrument at a fair price. 
 
 Jf any one wishes to exhibit our views AVC Avill procure for him a " Beseler " stereopticon. We Avill 
 furnish this stereopticon at the maker's price. It cannot be got one dollar cheaper if it is purchased 
 direct of Mr. Beseler. We Avill procure the stereopticon more as an accommodation to our agent than 
 as a matter of business, in order that Ave may forward the complete outfit all together and ready for 
 exhibiting. "NVe do not make a business of dealing in stereopticons, but only get them for our own 
 agents. Our business is solely the war view business. We do not keep stereopticons in stock, but will 
 procure one if ordered. Our OAVJI stereopticon is a " Beseler," and Ave shall be pleased to show it to any 
 one Avho Avill call on us. If you have a preference for any other make, get whatever style and make you
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 prefer, and we will supply the balance of outfit. We recommend the " Beseler," but we do not insist that 
 our agents shall use this make if they prefer any other. All we ask is that you have an A No. 1 
 instrument. 
 
 We wish to have our war views brought before the people in the best possible style. 
 
 It is not only for our interests that this is done, but for the interest of the exhibitor. If our agent 
 gives an exhibition in a town, and shows the public a fine assortment of our war views with a, first-class 
 apparatus, so that each view comes out on the canvas clear and startlingly realistic, he has advertised the 
 exhibition so well and favorably that when he visits that town again he is of course assured of a full 
 house. Our own experience in giving the exhibition is that the second visit to a town pays better than 
 the first. We have given the exhibition in some places five times. Repeated invitations to- "come 
 again " are the best evidences we can possibly offer as to the real merit of the war view entertainment. 
 
 But if an exhibitor has a cheap lantern, it makes no difference how good his views are, he cannot 
 show them well, and the result is that he not only does not make much money, but he disgusts the 
 public with a poor show, and they do not wish to see him again. 
 
 These are facts which are apparent and clear to everybody. 
 
 One great advantage which a stereopticon exhibition has over a theatre company is this : a theatre 
 company must have a large stage and fine scenery or they cannot give a real good show ; but the stere- 
 opticon exhibitor can go into a school-house, if he has room enough to put up his canvas, and can give 
 precisely the same exhibition that he would give in a magnificent opera-house, just as good, just the same 
 exactly ; therefore the man who has a first-class stereopticon outfit can go to small towns where theatre 
 companies never go, and consequently where the people are sure to come and see a good show if it is 
 given, and as his expenses are light he can arrange to stay two nights in a place. The first night he will 
 probably get only a small audience, but he shows them that he has a first-class exhibition ; during the 
 next day those that were there the first night spread the news all over town that it is a show worth see- 
 ing, and the second night he packs his house full. 
 
 Our advice then is this : Commence at the bottom and go up by degrees, as you get the business 
 learned in all its details. Don't start out with the idea of giving your first exhibitions in large cities. 
 
 Get a first-class single stereopticon and the outfit described on page 14 ; exhibit in small towns, two 
 nights in a place, until you get thoroughly posted in the business, then get another single stere- 
 opticon and put the two together with a dissolving key, and you have a complete double dissolving 
 view stereopticon, capable of giving the very best possible exhibition in any opera-house in the land. 
 
 Occasionally you can add to your collection of views another set, and in this way you can arrange to 
 visit the same place a number of times. Mr. Stoddard, Mr. French, and others of the most successful 
 exhibitors, go to each place five times during the season ; that is, they have a " course " of five different 
 exhibitions. It is pleasanter, cheaper, and more profitable to have a small circuit and go over and over 
 it than to try and cover so much ground that your traveling expenses eat up half of your profits. 
 
 The exhibition of the war views on canvas in such a vivid and realistic way creates a demand for the 
 war photographs. Right here is where our profit comes in. Eacli exhibitor of our war scenes is appointed 
 our agent for the sale of these war photographs. At each exhibition, anywhere from five to fifty 
 dozen views ought to be sold, according to the size of the place you show in. As you make a good profit 
 on these photographs it will pay you to employ one or two bright young men in each place to act as 
 ushers and to sell the views. A complimentary ticket for his girl and a small sum of money in payment 
 for his services will generally secure all the help you need. You will learn all these details of the busi- 
 ness in a short time, and when you have become perfectly familiar with thorn, then is the time for you 
 to get your second stereopticon and prepare for doing a larger business. We will furnish a printed 
 descriptive talk about each view, so that the lecturer can have the scenes all arranged to come on the 
 canvas just as he wants them, and can have something ready to say about each. One view may call for a 
 pathetic little story, another view is best described by a funny incident of army life, another view brings 
 out a ringing old army song, and so the evening slips uwtiy before your audience knows it. Every 
 minute is occupied, and they go home feeling that they have been splendidly entertained. 
 
 If you can come to Hartford and see the stereopticon and views, we would like to have you do so. 
 If they are not exactly as represented, we will pay all your expenses in coming here and returning 
 home. We invite you to consult our references and ascertain that we are a reliable company and that 
 we do as we agree. 
 
 Our references are the United States Express Agent, of Hartford ; The Adams Express Agent, of 
 Hartford ; The Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Company of Hartford ; The Commander of the 
 Department of Connecticut, G. A. R. 
 
 NOTICE. There are many hinds of CHEAP Magic lanterns advertised. They are USELESS for public exhibi- 
 tions, as they WILL NOT show a good view satisfactorily to an audience. They are mere toys, fit only to amuse 
 children. Do not be induced to order a magic lantern for $1O, or iftlS; you will not get a satisfactory apparatus. 
 No good, reliable instrument can be made for such a price. 
 
 [For Illustrations of the Stereopticon, see pages 16 and 17.1
 
 i6 
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 The Stereopticon Exhibition of War Views, 
 
 This cut show's the interior of an Opera House, and illustrates how the Stereopticon is used. It is 
 placed in the front row, center, of the " Dress Circle." From here the operator projects the scene upon 
 the curtain or canvas at the back of the stage. The lecturer stands on the stage (at one side, so as not 
 to interfere with the scene on the curtain), and as the views come out on the canvas he describes each 
 scene to the audience. The cut shows the Dissolving View Stereopticon ; that is, two stereopticons 
 "Beseler" make connected with a dissolving view key. The dissolving view effect is produced as 
 follows : the cut shows that the scene now on the curtain comes from the lower or bottom lantern. In 
 the upper or top lantern is another view ; the top lantern is now dark ; when the next scene is to appear 
 on the curtain the operator simply turns the dissolving key and thus shuts the light off from the bottom 
 lantern and turns it into the top one ; this of course causes the bottom lantern to become dark, and the 
 view now seen dissolves out of sight, while the other view in the top lantern comes out gradually 
 till it is strong and clear. Then the operator takes the view out of the bottom lantern and puts in 
 another one, and turns the dissolving key, which sends the light into the bottom lantern again and cuts 
 it off from the top one. So on from one to the other, causing each view to dissolve away and a new one 
 to come in its place. This shows why it takes a Double Stereopticon or two lanterns to make the 
 dissolving view effect. The Single Stereopticon will show the views here just as well as the Double 
 Stereopticon does, except that the Single Stereopticon will not produce the dissolving view effect. The 
 Single Stereopticon presents the views on the canvas just as clear, just as large, in fact exactly the 
 same as this Double Stereopticon does. The Double Stereopticon is only two Single Stereopticons 
 brought together and connected by means of the dissolving key, therefore anybody who has a Single 
 Stereopticon outfit can add another Single Stereopticon to it and connect them with the dissolving key, 
 and thus have a first-class Double Stereopticon, capable of giving the best exhibition possible.
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OK THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 THE: "CHARTS 
 
 " STROPTICON, 
 
 THE SINGLE STEREOPTICON. 
 
 THE DOUBLE STEREOPTICON. 
 
 The above cuts give a fair representation of the "Beseler" Stereopticons, which we believe to be the 
 best stereopticoiis made. They are handsome, strong, well made, and thoroughly serviceable. 
 
 Perhaps the best recommendation tney could have is the fact that they are used by all the Normal 
 Schools of the State of New York ; also by the Museum of Natural History, in Central Park, New York ; 
 the College of Pharmacy, New York ; the School of Mines, New York ; the College of Pharmacy, San 
 Francisco, Cal., and many others. The fact that these colleges and scientific schools use them is ample 
 proof that they are A No. 1, and we recommend them to our agents as thoroughly satisfactory instru- 
 ments in every respect, and perfectly calculated to show our war views in a clear and realistic manner. 
 
 Selecting the Views for an Exhibition. 
 
 The photographic "negatives" of the war scenes were made by the old-fashioned "wet-plate" 
 process, which was the only process known at the time of the war (1861-1865). 
 
 It is more than a quarter of a century since these " negatives " were made, and many of them have 
 undergone chemical changes which make it impossible to get a good, clear " slide " from them. 
 
 Others of the " negatives " are just as clear as though they were made yesterday. 
 
 It is impossible, without making a careful examination of the " negatives," to decide which are in 
 condition to make a clear view. 
 
 Therefore we advise those who wish to exhibit the war scenes with the stereopticon, to leave the 
 selection of the views mostly to our judgment. 
 
 We can look over the " negatives " and pick out those that are in good condition to make a fine 
 view on the curtain. 
 
 It would be impossible for you to tell from the catalogue which views will make good, clear scenes 
 on the curtain. 
 
 We shall use our very best judgment in making the selection of views for any one who wishes to 
 give the exhibition, for it is just as much for our interest to have you make a thorough success of the 
 exhibition as it is for your interest, because your success means large sales of the photographs wherever 
 you exhibit them ; therefore our interests become identical, and we shall naturally do our very best to 
 fit you out so that you will make a thorough success of the business, for our main object is to work up a 
 big sale for the AVar Photographs. 
 
 Besides the views that are named on pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 in this catalogue, we 
 have many not yet classified for the catalogue. From the entire collection we will select the best for an 
 exhibition. 
 
 If you will simply select (from the following list) the battles you are most interested in, or which
 
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 * the rest of the views to our judgment, we will get out a set of war scenes that cannot be surpassed. 
 
 BATTLES. 
 
 EASTERN ARMY. WESTERN ARMY. 
 
 Sheridan's Final Charge at Winchester. Battle of Chattanooga. 
 
 Battle of Fredcricksburg. Battle of Kenesaiv Mountain. 
 
 Sheridan's Ride. Alatoona, or " Hold the Fort." 
 
 Rattle of Gettysburg. Siege of Atlanta. 
 
 Battle of Antietain. Siege of ricksburg. 
 
 Battle of Spottsylvania. Battle of Shiloh. 
 
 "The March to the Sea." 
 
 BATTLES. 
 
 L> - Capture of ffetv Orleans. Battle of Mobile Bay. Battle of Port Huron. 
 
 3 & Monitor and Mcrrimac. Kearsarge and Alabama. Capture of Fort Fislier. 
 
 If the battles in which you are most interested are not in the above list, write and tell us what you 
 ~ := want, and if we have them we will include them in your outfit. 
 
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 If THE MUSEUM EXHIBITION CASE. 
 
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 Exhibition of War 
 
 A PLEASANT AND PROFITABLE BUSINESS. 
 
 flo Exhibition can lie given wllcl will interest tie Public so mncli as Real far Scenes, 
 
 To enable our agents to exhibit the war views in a satisfactory and profitable manner, we have had 
 made, by a skilled optician, a Museum Exhibition Case, so arranged that four people can be entertained 
 at the same time. 
 
 On each side'o{ the case there are two pairs of fine, strong, stereoscopic lenses, set at a proper distance 
 apart, so that the exhibition can be given to four persons (two on each side of the case) at the same time. 
 
 At a proper focus from the lenses an apparatus is arranged to hold the views at a right angle with 
 the lenses ; strong reflectors are so placed as to catch the light and throw it directly upon the war scenes 
 as they come into view of the people looking through the lenses. This extra light from the reflectors 
 brings the scenes out splendidly. 
 
 Under each view is printed its title, in plain sight of the person looking through the lenses. Having 
 the full printed description of each scene adds greatly to the pleasure of studying the war views. 
 
 The apparatus which holds the views is controlled and operated by the exhibitor from one end of 
 the case. There are forty-eight views in the case, no two views alike. Of course four views are before 
 the lenses at a time one view before each pair of lenses. By one simple turn of the apparatus the 
 exhibitor brings up four other views ; as soon as the people at the lenses have had a fair opportunity to 
 see these four, the exhibitor gives another turn to the apparatus and brings four more views up before 
 their eyes, and so on until all the views have been shown. 
 
 A brief lecture or descriptive talk about each scene makes the exhibition much more interesting, 
 and at the same time draws a crowd around your case and keeps them there, and they are always 
 anxious to get a chance to see the scenes which they hear you describing. 
 
 We do not fix the price which our agents shall receive for exhibiting the forty-eight scenes, but we 
 recommend that a uniform fee of ten cents be charged. This is a fair price, and no person man, 
 woman, or child, rich or poor, intelligent or ignorant will begrudge the money for the privilege of
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR- THE UNION. 
 
 looking back a quarter of a century to the very actual scenes of our war. From college president to 
 boot-black, none are too high or too lowly to be interested in the scenes revealed by these lenses. It is 
 thrilling history of our great war brought right before them ; it is no guess-work it is the real thing, 
 just as the camera of the government photographer caught it ; as exact as a reflection in a mirror. 
 
 As the case can be used in the evening as well as day-time, the agent can visit G. A. R. Posts and 
 find ample business in the ante-rooms in the evening. When you get to work with the case and money 
 begins to come in, you can send and get another outfit of views for the case, so as to give two different 
 exhibitions. By this plan you can exhibit to the same persons to whom you first exhibited, for, having 
 seen one exhibition of views, of course they will be eager to see the next. You will find everybody 
 interested in looking at the views, whether soldiers or not. This Exhibition Case is calculated for use 
 at Fairs, Reunions, Post Rooms, Hotel Offices, in stores, houses, or on the street. It can be used in the 
 day-time as well as in the evening. It is entirely different from a stereopticon. It shows the war views 
 through lenses. It will not throw the scenes on canvas. If you want a light, pleasant business, the 
 Exhibition Case with four sets of lenses will furnish you the means of taking in dimes very easily. We 
 had two cases of the war views on exhibition at our Post Fair. They were kept busy all the time, and 
 earned a handsome sum for our Relief Fund. We also had the cases in use at the Fair given by Stanley 
 Post No. 11, of New Britain. (See letter on next page of this catalogue, from the Commander and 
 Committee of said Post.) 
 
 The views are not yet fully catalogued. We have thousands of different views. They were photo- 
 graphed during the war at Yorktown, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Knoxville, 
 Nashville, Mississippi River Campaign, Morris Island, on the Peninsula during the McClellan Cam- 
 paign, Charleston, Fort Sumter, Lookout Mountain, Army of Tennessee, Petersburg, Richmond, etc. 
 
 In selecting an assortment of views for exhibition in the case, it will not be possible to arrange it so 
 as to show each soldier's company, regiment, or brigade. Of course each comrade would like to see his 
 own regiment shown, but a moment's reflection will convince you that this is not possible ; the only 
 practical way is to make a selection of views which will be likely to interest the public generally; there- 
 fore the assortment should be made to include Battlefields, Batteries, Regiments, Forts, Picket Posts, 
 Pontoon Bridges, Signal Towers, Rebel Prisoners, the Wounded, the Dead just as they fell, Burial of the 
 Dead after the Battle, Libby Prison, the Monitor, etc., etc. In this way all are more likely to be inter- 
 ested. As the views cannot be obtained anywhere except from us, our agents have a clear field. 
 
 Price of the Museum Exhibition Case will four sets oflenses and forty-eight views, all complete, - $56.25 
 
 EXTRA SETS OF VIEWS CAN BE ADDED FROM TIME TO TIME AS YOU REQUIRE THEM. 
 
 The price quoted above is for the " Museum Case " and views carefully packed and delivered to the 
 express or freight office in Hartford. We make no charge for boxing or packing, but freight or express 
 charges must be paid by the agent. The main body of the Museum Exhibition Case is made of black 
 walnut and cherry woods, handsomely finished. The weight of this outfit, packed for shipment, is 
 about 100 pounds. 
 
 If you can come to Hartford and see the outfit in use in our office, we would like to have you do so. 
 
 If the Museum Exhibition Case and the war views are not exactly as represented, we will pay all of 
 your expenses in coming here and returning home. We invite you to consult our references and ascer- 
 tain that we are a reliable company, and that we do as we agree. 
 
 (BEING TWO OR MORE "MUSEUM CASES" GEARED TOGETHER.) 
 
 We have arranged the "Museum Case" so that two or more cases can be geared together and all 
 work as one case. Therefore, as you progress in the business, you can add another case and thus be able 
 to show to eight persons at a time. This is found necessary at Fairs, Encampments, or other places 
 where there is a great crowd, and where the case for four persons at a time will not meet the demand. 
 
 Committees of Fairs, etc., readily grant eligible space to the Museum Exhibition Cases, as they are 
 an added attraction without expense, and are sure to bring in more money to the fund. 
 
 We reserve the State of Connecticut as our own territory, and run the cases in the fairs, etc., here in 
 this State. The sole right to a sufficient portion of any other State (not already taken) will be granted to 
 an enterprising agent. Ample territory will be granted to each agent, so there will be no competition. 
 
 When we place the "Museum Case" in Fairs, we allow the Committee one-half of all the money 
 taken in. It costs us nothing to run the case, only the wages of the person we employ to tend it. Fre- 
 quently the Committee will furnish some pretty young lady to tend the case and take in the dimes, but
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 even if we were obliged to employ some one to tend it, we can get a good competent young lady for $1.50 
 to $2.00 per day. As we can show to forty or more persons an hour, at ten cents each, our share of one- 
 half gives us a good profit, even after paying the wages of the person who tends the case. 
 
 The advantage of having the Museum Cases geared together, instead of having one solid Case, is 
 that if (as sometimes happens) two small Fairs are being held in adjacent towns at the same time, the 
 two Cases can be separated, making two Museum Cases, each showing to four persons at a time, and thus 
 get the benefit of both Fairs. The gearing is quite simple, so the Cases can be separated or connected in 
 about one minute. When the Cases are shipped from one place to another they can be handled and 
 moved much more easily separate than if it was one solid Case. 
 
 Fairs, Camp-fires, etc., furnish a rich harvest which can be gathered with one or more of the 
 Museum Exhibition Cases. 
 
 The right sort of man can have an entire State and act as general agent, and by having a number of 
 sub-agents at work in his State, can, by proper management, work up a splendid business and have a 
 steady income. ^,^.__ 
 
 The following is a sample of the letters we get from G. A. R. Posts who have our war views in their fairs', showing 
 how the Exhibition Cases are liked Inj the Fair Committees. In every place where they are put on exhibition, 
 they " take." The Comrades are all pleased ivith them, and the people patronize them in great numbers. They 
 are a complete success, and are the most rapid " money getters " that any Fair can have. 
 
 Heaflprters Stanley Post No. 11, G. A. R. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN, CONN. 
 
 THE WAR PHOTOGRAPH & EXHIBITION COMPANY, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Deqr Comrades: On behalf of Stanley Post No. 11, G. A. R., we wish to 
 tender you our thanks for the very satisfactory attraction you placed in our Fair, 
 just closed. 
 
 The Exhibition Cases of your real war views pleased everybody ; not only the 
 old soldiers, but the citizens and ladies and children appreciated the opportunity 
 
 fiven them to see for themselves what war really was. Our well-known Comrade, 
 ra E. Hicks, Past Department Commander, was much delighted when he discov- 
 ered his own picture in a group of soldiers on the lines before Charleston. It was 
 conclusive evidence of the genuineness of your war photographs ; indeed, they prove themselves to be 
 all you claim for them, and any Fair Committee who secures them will find them an excellent source of 
 pleasure and profit, without one penny of expense. 
 
 Your ingenious arrangement of the lenses, so that a number of persons can be entertained at the 
 same time, is admirable, as it enables the Fair to gather in the dimes rapidly. We wish you continued 
 success. Yours in F., C., & L., 
 
 GEORGE H. BECKETT, Chairman Fair Committee. FRANCIS H. SMITH, Post Commander. 
 
 WM. H. GLADDEN, Secretary Fair Committee. 
 
 TIE WIBLI EX1IB1T10I CASE. 
 
 This is a handsome case made of black walnut and cherry, with tivo pairs of fine stereo lenses, and 
 shows views to two persons at a time. It has two reflector tops, which can be closed when the Case is 
 not in use. The forty-eight views in this Case are placed in an ingeniously arranged holder, the same 
 as in the Museum Exhibition Case, and do not have to be handled at all while exhibiting them, con- 
 sequently they can always be kept clean and bright. This Case weighs less than thirty pounds with 
 the forty-eight views all complete. For a crippled comrade it is just the thing, being light and easily 
 handled and worked. It is similar in its arrangement to the Museum Exhibition Case, except that this 
 Double Case shows to but two persons at a time. 
 
 Price of Double EiMMtion Case with two sets of lenses and forty-eiglt views, all complete, $27.75 
 
 There are many comrades who would make admirable and successful agents and exhibitors of the 
 war views, but who cannot afford to buy a first-class outfit to commence with. To all such we say, Do 
 not give up the idea because you cannot commence at the top. It will be time well and profitably spent 
 for you to begin at the bottom and work up. You will become familiar with the views and with the 
 details of the business, and this knowledge will be of great value to you when you commence exhibiting 
 with the stereopticon. Even if you commence with the Double Exhibition Case, you can work up 
 rapidly, and within three or four months from the time you begin you can make money enough to pur- 
 chase a Stereopticon outfit, if you will attend to business.
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 We want Good Agents to Exhibit these Views. 
 
 "DOES IT PAY?" 
 
 " Will it pay me to handle the war view exhibition f " is a question sometimes asked us by those who 
 would like to exhibit the war scenes, but who are in doubt about their ability to make a success of it. 
 In answer to the question, we print the following letter received from a comrade in California, who has 
 been our agent in that section for nearly a year, and it shows that the Exhibition Case will earn good 
 wages for an agent if it is properly attended to. Comrade Boulden writes us as follows : 
 
 SELMA, FRESNO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. 
 THE WAR PHOTOGRAPH & EXHIBITION COMPANY, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 COMRADES : I have rigged my Exhibition Case with lamps and now I show the war scenes both 
 during the day and evening. I am glad to say that I have been for the last ten months making a good 
 living for my family of seven persons, besides paying up some back debts, etc. I exhibit on the street, 
 charging 15 cents for one side, and 25 cents for Doth sides. No one objects to this price, and I give uni- 
 versal satisfaction. I want to get a larger outfit as soon as possible, and should have saved enough for it 
 before this time if it had not been for doctor's bills and other debts which I am paying up. which accu- 
 mulated while I was laid up with a broken arm and elbow before I got this Double Exhibition Case. As 
 soon as I can get a " Museum Case " I can largely increase my business. Contrary to my expectations, 
 I find that I am a success as a lecturer that is, in explaining the war scenes though I never had any 
 practice before I got the Exhibition Case. 
 
 Yours in F., C., & L., 
 
 JOHN W. BOULDEN. 
 
 The above letter came to us without any solicitation, and it can easily be verified either by writing 
 to Comrade John W. Boulden, Selma, California, or to the commander of the G. A. R. Post in Fresno 
 City. Mr. Boulden is a worthy comrade who took a Double Exhibition Case nearly a year ago, just as he 
 was recovering from a compound fracture of his arm which had laid him up for several months, during 
 which time he of course was earning nothing, and got considerably in debt. 
 
 Some applicants think they ought to have the entire State to work in exclusively ; we will give an 
 agent all the territory he can attend to, yet we cannot assign an entire State to one Exhibition Case. The 
 way to make money with the case is not to run all over creation, but just work the territory thor- 
 oughly. It is much the same with this as it is with picking berries : the boy who runs all over the fields 
 to find the place where the berries are the thickest, don't get nearly as many as the one does who, when 
 he finds a patch of berries, picks them. If agents will learn this lesson they will find no trouble in doing 
 well with the Exhibition Case in a reasonable amount of territory, without trying to cover an entire State. 
 It will be observed that Comrade Boulden charges 25 cents for showing 48 views. We do not object to 
 this price being charged, but we do not recommend it. It may do in California or at some big fair, but 
 for a regular thing, we recommend ten cents ; no one will find fault with that, and an agent can do well 
 at that price. 
 
 [Since the above letter was written to us Comrade Boulden has ordered a " Museum Case," and he is 
 now doing much more business than when he had only the double case, which would show to only two 
 persons at a time. Comrade Boulden is now working the " Museum Case," and says he is soon going 
 to order a first-class Stereopticon outfit.] 
 
 SPECIAL TO AGENTS. 
 
 The following are some of the questions which are likely to be asked by agents 
 or those who contemplate taking an agency for the exhibition and sale of our war 
 views. We print them here, and append our replies to them, in order to save writing 
 long letters to convey the same information. 
 
 Question i. How much territory will you give me ? 
 
 Answer. We will assign you all the territory you can work to advantage, and besides the terri- 
 tory actually assigned to you, we will reserve for you additional territory, which we will assign to you as 
 you may require it. In thickly settled States three or four counties furnish all the territory an agent
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOK THE UNION. 
 
 can attend to, while in more thinly settled States an agent might require eight or ten counties, or even 
 more. Therefore we fix no arbitrary rule, but will assign to each agent whatever amount of territory he 
 may require. 
 
 Question a. Do you give Agents sole right to territory assigned them? 
 
 Answer. Yes. Each agent has the sole and exclusive right to the territory we assign to him. 
 No charge is made for territory. We assign territory free with each outfit. 
 
 Question 3. How do you protect an Agent in his territory? 
 
 Answer. By legal injunction against any agent who disregards his assignment, and trespasses on 
 the rights of territory of another. A test case has been tried and the Court has decided that one agent 
 cannot legally trespass on the rights of territory of another, except by permission of the agent to whom 
 the territory is assigned. In fact it very seldom happens that one agent will trespass on the territory of 
 another. Each agent is dependent on us for the goods he sells. He can procure them nowhere else. 
 Should we ascertain that he is trespassing on the territory of another, we warn him off, and if he fails 
 to heed our warning, we refuse to fill his orders for goods, and this of course stops his business. Should 
 he then ^emVtf, by exhibiting with the Museum Case or the Stereopticon on another's territory, we 
 secure an injunction, and he must either obey that or settle with the Court. We never had but one case 
 where it was necessary to secure an injunction from the Court. That settled it, the trespassing agent 
 obeyed the injunction, and quit. 
 
 
 Question 4. Do you grunt a Certificate of Agency? 
 
 Answer. We do. Each agent is given a Certificate of Agency, sealed and signed by us and duly 
 witnessed. This Certificate clearly defines the rights and privileges granted to our agents, and sets forth 
 the territory assigned to the agent. 
 
 In our office we have large atlases showing each State, County, City, Town, and Village, and we are 
 thus enabled to mark off clearly the boundary line of each agent's territory. 
 
 Question 5. Do you start Agents on credit or on the installment plan? 
 
 Answer. We do not. Our business is strictly on a cash basis. There never was a credit business 
 done yet but what there were losses due to it. Who pays for the losses or bad debts? Why, those who 
 pay their bills. It is an old and true saying that "those who pay, pay for those who don't pay." In 
 other words, if we have a hundred agents and we do a credit business, and ninety of them pay and ten 
 of them fail to pay their bills, our prices must be made high enough to provide for the Josses we incur by 
 the ten who do not pay ; therefore it is readily seen that the ninety who pay must pay enough to cover 
 the losses incurred by the ten who do not pay. We prefer to do a cash business with the ninety who 
 pay their bills, and have no losses to saddle upon them, rather than to do a little more business by the 
 credit system, and saddle off a batch of losses upon the agents who pay. 
 
 Our outfits for agents are made for various prices, so that any one who really wishes to become an 
 agent can do so. An agent can commence with the smallest and cheapest outfit, and soon work along 
 up until he can have the most expensive outfit and do a large and splendidly paying business. 
 
 Question 6. Do you give more territory with a Stereopticon outfit than with an 
 
 Exhibition Case outfit? 
 
 Answer. Yes. An agent with a Stereopticon outfit needs considerably more territory than an 
 agent with a Museum Case. An agent with a Stereopticon outfit needs a territory containing from 150 
 to 200 places where he can profitably give the exhibition ; this would occupy him about a year to make 
 the entire round of his territory ; then the second year he could take an entirely new set of views and 
 go right over the same territory again, and do even better the second trip than he does the first. An 
 agent with a Museum Exhibition Case does not need half as much territory, because he will average at 
 least a week in each place, and if he has a territory which gives him 52 towns he will not probably make 
 the entire round in a year. Long before he gets through with 52 towns he ought to have money enough 
 to get the Stereopticon outfit and increase his territory and his business. 
 
 Question 7. How soon can you ship an outfit after you receive the order? 
 
 Answer. In about one week. We do not keep the outfits in stock, but make them to order for 
 our agents ; the photographic views, which the agents sell, we keep in stock all the time ; therefore 
 after an agent gets started with his exhibition outfit we are always enabled to fill his order for the pho- 
 tographic war views the same day we receive it.
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 23 
 
 Question 8. Which is the best way to have outfits shipped ? 
 
 Answer With regard to shipping goods, we wish to correct a mistaken idea that prevails to 
 some extent. 
 
 Some of our correspondents ask us to ship the outfit by Fast freight, C. O. D., as Freight is so much 
 cheaper than Express. 
 
 As a rule, Fast Freight costs only about one-sixth as much as Express ; that is, a case of goods that 
 would cost you six dollars for Express charges would probably cost you only about one dollar if sent by 
 Fast Freight. 
 
 Sometimes the difference is even more than one-sixth ; for instance, we sent a box of goods to a com- 
 rade out in Montana, and the Express charges on the box were $26.50 ; we made inquiries at the Fast 
 Freight office as to what the same box would cost if it had been sent by Fast Freight, and found out 
 that it could have been sent for $3.20. 
 
 Of course we had to ship it by Express because the comrade ordered it to be sent by Express, but 
 after he got it, and found out how much cheaper he could have got it by Fast Freight, he saw what an 
 expensive mistake he had made in having it go by Express. Goods will go a little quicker by Express 
 than by Freight, but not enough quicker to pay so much difference. Our goods are carefully packed 
 and will go just as safely by Freight as by Express. 
 
 If you wish goods shipped by Fast Freight you must remit the full amount of the bill with your 
 order, as the Freight Companies do not do a C. O. D. business. If goods are sent C. O. D., they must go 
 by Express. 
 
 Question g. Does it require a. skilled operator to run the Stereopticon? 
 
 Answer. It does not. We will warrant to take any boy of ordinary intelligence (15 years of 
 age or more) and teach him in one hour how to operate the Stereopticon correctly. We send printed 
 instructions with the outfit. 
 
 Question 10. Is oxy-hydrogen gas safe for anybody to use? 
 
 Answer. Our operator has used it hundreds of times, without the slightest trouble or accident of 
 any kind. One day when our operator was sick, and we had an exhibition to give that evening, we 
 took a boy about sixteen years old, and after one lesson of less than half an hour, this boy went with us 
 and operated our double dissolving view Stereopticon, using the gas as well as our old operator could 
 have done. 
 
 Question n. Do you make your own gas, and use gas-bags in giving the exhi- 
 bition ? 
 
 Answer. No ; we do not. We never made a foot of gas nor used a gas-bag in all our experience. 
 We do not know of a first-class exhibitor anywhere who uses such an old-fashioned thing as a gas-bag. 
 The gas-bags hold the same relation to the gas-cylinders that an old lumbering stage-coach holds to the 
 modern railroad express train. No one wants to be bothered with making gas, for it is a stinking, dirty 
 business, and nine times out of ten the exhibitor has no time to waste in making gas ; moreover, no good 
 exhibition can be given from a gas-bag, for the pressure can never be made equal, and consequently the 
 light is never steady and equal, therefore your scenes never come out as good on the canvas. If any one 
 advises you to use a gas-bag, just ask him to name one first-class exhibitor who uses gas-bags. He 
 cannot do it, for no first-class exhibitor does use them. We assume that if you take hold of this busi- 
 ness you want to give a first-class exhibition (and we want to have you give it first-class if you give 
 it at all), therefore we say do not use gas-bags, but, on the contrary, use oxy-hydrogen gas from gas- 
 cylinders, for the cylinders are neat, easily handled and managed, reliable, and always ready. 
 
 Question is. How many exhibitions can be given with one pair of cylinders? 
 
 Answer. One pair of cylinders will give from six to eight exhibitions. 
 
 Question ij. Are the cylinders heavy and troublesome to carry? 
 
 Answer. Cylinders weigh about one hundred pounds. We always take them on the cars with 
 us and have them checked as our baggage. 
 
 Question 14. Where can the cylinders of gas be procured? 
 
 Answer. New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Kansas City, and 
 many other places. We will send you the address of the Company nearest you that furnishes the gas.
 
 24 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 Question 15. Do I have to buy the gas-cylinders? 
 
 Answer. No. The gas company own the cylinders, and you simply buy the gas, and they send 
 it to you in these cylinders. When the cylinders are empty you send them back and take a fresh pair. 
 You do not have to send them back and wait for them to be filled, but by ordering a fresh pair a day or 
 two before those you have are empty, you will get the filled pair by the time you are ready to send 
 back the empty pair. 
 
 Question 16. What is the cost per night of the oxy-hydrogen gas used from the 
 
 cylinders ? 
 
 Answer. The average cost is, according to our experience of more than one hundred nights, 
 about two dollars per night ; this is allowing for the cost of the gas and also the express charge 011 the 
 cylinders to and from the gas company. 
 
 We advise the use of the gas, because the gas makes a first-class exhibition, whereas the oil light 
 makes not so clear and good a scene. There are some agents who use the oil light and who do a good, fair 
 business, but we believe that by using the gas they could increase their receipts by more than enough to 
 pay the difference in cost between the gas and the oil. Of course oil does not cost much, and some agents 
 think that they might as well save the two dollars per night which the gas would cost them, but we 
 think they are mistaken. Two dollars per night is equal to eight tickets at twenty-five cents each, 
 and it is our opinion that an exhibitor will get more than eight tickets more each night if he uses gas, 
 and is thus able to advertise on his bills that he uses the oxy-hydrogen lime light (the best light known 
 to science), than if he used oil light, which everybody knows is not as good as the gas light ; for illustra- 
 tion, suppose you average two hundred and fifty tickets per evening while usiug the oil light, and by 
 using the gas light you averaged two hundred and fifty-eight tickets ; you will readily see that the gas 
 has really paid for itself by getting you a larger audience. In point of fact, you would get a great many 
 more than eight tickets per evening in excess of what you would get with oil light ; probably in most 
 places your audience would be one-half larger if you used the oxy-hydrogen light than if you used oil 
 light, for there are cheap, oil-light exhibitions of Bible scenes or of foreign scenes traveling through the 
 country, and they do not give satisfaction to the public, but let a really first-class exhibition come to a 
 town and let it be so advertised that the public will know that it really is first-class, and the public are 
 always ready to respond liberally with their patronage to anything that is really first-class. This war 
 view exhibition is, when properly presented, first-class, and capable of entertaining any audience, and it 
 is our desire that our agents shall present it in a first-class manner, as it is really for our mutual interests 
 that the exhibition be kept on the high plane of excellence where we have placed it and where it right- 
 fully belongs. We therefore advise our exhibitors to use the oxy-hydrogen gas and thus give the highest 
 satisfaction both to the public and to themselves, for there is a sense of satisfaction in the mind of the 
 exhibitor when he knows and feels that he has given the public the very best exhibition possible, and 
 one to which no exception can be taken ; it pays in every sense to do the best work; your reputation will 
 go in advance of you, and you will find that it pays in dollars and cents, as well as in mental satisfac- 
 tion, to have the reputation of having an "A No. 1" exhibition ; you will get lots of people to buy 
 tickets who would not accept a free ticket to a cheap exhibition. The motto we adopt is, "There is 
 nothing too good for the great American public," and we advise all our agents to adopt the same motto. 
 
 Question 17. What admission do you charge, and what for reserved seats ? 
 
 Answer. Our usual price of admission is 25 cents, and 10 cents extra for reserved seats. We are 
 guided in our prices by the usual custom of the place where we give the exhibition. In some places we 
 have charged 50 cents admission, and 25 cents extra for reserved seats. 
 
 Question 18. What are your terms for giving the exhibition ? 
 
 Answer. We give the exhibition either for a fixed sum or else for a share of the net profits, 
 whichever way we agree on with the organization that we give the entertainment for. As before stated, 
 we always give the exhibition under the auspices of some organization, either a G. A. R. Post, or a Sous 
 of Veterans' Camp, or a Woman's Relief Corps, or a Church, or some other prominent organization. If 
 they prefer to employ us to come and give the entertainment for a fixed sum, without any reference to 
 how much they may take in, our terms are $75.00 for one night or $125.00 for two consecutive nights ; they 
 pay us this sum and we come and give the exhibition for them, and they furnish the hall or opera-house, 
 do the bill-posting and advertising, and all other incidental work connected with giving the entertain- 
 ment. On our part, we pay our own railroad and hotel bills and give the exhibition. The best and most 
 satisfactory terms, however, are an equal division of the net receipts; for illustration : we make an agree- 
 ment to give the exhibition for a certain organization ; they see to engaging the hall or opera-house, 
 doing the bill-posting and advertising, selling the tickets, and all other business necessary to the success 
 of the entertainment, as far as the local work is concerned. On the day appointed we go to the town and
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 25 
 
 attend to our part of the contract, viz.: getting our curtain set and our Stereopticon placed and tested, so 
 that when evening conies arid the audience assembles we are in readiness to give the exhibition. The 
 organization under whose auspices we are, provides ticket-seller, doorkeepers, ushers, etc., generally in 
 the uniform of the organization. After the entertainment is over we go into the box-office with the 
 committee and " settle up." First, we count the tickets and then balance the ticket sales with the cash ; 
 the committee who have had charge of the local preparations present all the bills that they have con- 
 tracted on account of the entertainment, such as rent of the hall, bill-posting, advertising, etc. ; on our 
 part we present our bills for our expenses in coming there that is, our railroad fares and our hotel bills 
 and $2.00 for the gas used in giving the exhibition. Thus we ascertain exactly what the expenses have 
 been. Then there is taken out from the cash, enough money to pay all of these bills in full. The 
 remaining cash is, of course, net profit; these net profits we divide equally, giving the Post or whatever 
 organization it is that we are working for, one-half of the money remaining after all bills are paid, and 
 taking the other half for our share. This we have found to be the most satisfactory way to arrange the 
 terms. On these terms there is no chance for fault-finding in the settlement ; if it has been a good night 
 and we have had a full house we are satisfied, and on the contrary, if it has been a poor night, when 
 from stormy weather or from any other cause we have not had a full house, the Post or whatever organiza- 
 tion it is does not feel as they would if they had to draw on their treasury to pay us a fixed sum agreed 
 on beforehand. This business is like any other business in this respect, viz. : there are nights when we 
 do a splendid business and "pack the house," and then there are nights when from bad weather 
 or from some other cause we make a poor night and get in barely money enough to pay expenses. 
 We have, up to this writing, given the exhibition just one hundred and seventeen different times ; we 
 have got, in one single night, for our share of the net profits, $128.75, and, on the other hand, we 'have 
 given the exhibition when we received less than $3.00 for our share, after all bills were paid. In figuring 
 up our entire receipts for the one hundred and seventeen exhibitions that we have given, we find that 
 we have averaged a profit of about $31.00 for each night ; that is, as above stated, we have had good 
 nights and bad nights, but taking them all together we have averaged about $31.00 per night, net 
 profit. The night above-mentioned, when we got $128.75 for our share of the profits, was an exception- 
 ally good night. We never got so much in one night but once, but we have frequently received over 
 $100.00 for our share in a single night ; and then, on the other hand, as before stated, we have gbne down 
 to less than $3.00 for our share. If you would like to see the exhibition given, we shall be pleased to 
 have you do so, and then you can judge for yourself just how the public like it, and you can see how the 
 details of the business are attended to. Let us know about when you can visit us, and we will inform 
 you by return mail when and where our next exhibition will be given, and will send you a compli- 
 mentary ticket to attend the same. You can then arrange to come and visit us, look the business all 
 over, and attend the exhibition, and so get well posted on the methods of carrying on the business, and 
 can decide whether it is what we have represented it or not. We are perfectly willing to put this busi- 
 ness on its merits, and let you be the judge of it. We think we make a reasonable and fair estimate 
 when we state that, in our opinion, based on our own experience, two men can take this war view 
 exhibition, and by attending to business and looking after the details properly, they can average better 
 than ten dollars per night, each. As above noted, we have done better than this, but we will put the 
 probable average at twenty dollars profit per night (ten dollars for each partner) as the reasonable and 
 probable figure that can be realized. To do this, however, means a strict attention to business. It won't 
 do to spend the most of your time in sitting around the hotel and drinking beer, or smoking, and spin- 
 ning yarns. When you get to a town you will need to " hustle around " and see that the local details 
 have all been properly attended to by the committee ; then go to the hall where the exhibition is to be 
 given, and see that things are in good shape there. Get your curtain set in good style, and then get 
 your Stereopticon placed and tested, so there will be no delay or hitch in the entertainment when the 
 audience gets there. If the local committee have arranged for any army songs to be sung, you should 
 make it a point to see the singers personally, before the audience assembles, and arrange with them just 
 what you want sung, and just when to sing it. By having all these little matters clearly understood 
 before the entertainment begins, you secure a good smooth evening, whereas a failure to attend to those 
 little matters leaves it entirely to chance whether things go right or not. We cite all these things to 
 show you that it requires work and careful attention to business in order to succeed in this enterprise, as 
 well as in any other business. This war view exhibition is a good and profitable business when properly 
 attended to, but it won't run itself, any more than a railroad or a steamboat will. Therefore, unless you 
 " mean business," don't touch it at all. 
 
 Question 19. Do you have to pay a license to give the exhibition? 
 
 Answer. We have given the exhibition a great many times, but we have never hud to pay a 
 cent for license yet. We usually give the exhibition under the auspices of some G. A. R. Post, or Kons of 
 Veterans' Camp, of other organization, and they always make all the local arrangements and attend to 
 all these local details.
 
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 26 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 Question so. Do you employ an "Advance Agent" to make your engagements 
 
 for you ? 
 
 Answer. We do not. We have found that we can make all the engagements \ve want by cor- 
 respondence with the Post or whatever organization we desire to work with. It is better to give a 
 G. A. R. Post the first offer, provided there is a Post in the place you are going to. After the first few 
 exhibitions have been successfully given, you have something to refer to. It is easy enough to get 
 engagements by offering the organization one-half the net receipts, as explained above. There is no 
 risk to them in supl terms, because you are practically certain to take in enough to more than pay all 
 expenses, and thus they have the opportunity offered them of making something for their treasury ; 
 and on these terms you easily get all the engagements you want. After you get started and your reputa- 
 tion is established, engagements will seek you, instead of you having to seek engagements. This has 
 been our experience. 
 A 
 
 Question ai. What is the best season of the year for the Stereopticon Exhi- 
 bition ? 
 
 Answer. We begin early in September, and close our season on the evening of Memorial Day. 
 The best month of the whole year is May ; the best week of the entire year is the last week in May ; and 
 the best day in the year is Memorial Day. During the mouth of May the subject of the war is more 
 especially before the minds of the whole people, and thus the war view exhibition is right in line with 
 the thoughts of the people, and they will readily attend any real good entertainment pertaining to the 
 war ; but during the week in which Memorial Day occurs (that is, the last week of May), every even- 
 ing is a harvest-time with this exhibition. During that week, make your engagements only for large 
 towns or cities. Do not waste a single evening in small towns. Properly managed, the exhibition can be 
 made to earn you at least $100.00 each night of Memorial-day week. You need not be afraid of getting 
 too large an opera-house or hall for the evenings of that \veek. Take the largest opera-house or hall in the 
 place, and advertise liberally, so as to let all the people know what sort of an entertainment you have to 
 offer them, and no fear but what you will have a full house. We know of nothing that interests the 
 people generally so much as war and great battles and all pertaining thereto ; it makes no difference 
 whether.it is a veteran soldier, or a citizen who did not go to the war, or the children, or the ladies ; they 
 are nearly all interested in this subject. War seems to exercise a fascination over the minds of nearly all 
 the people. This is true at any and all times in the year, but about Memorial-day season it is more 
 especially so. For this reason it is the very best of the whole year's harvest for you, and your arrange- 
 ments should be so made that you can reap richly. As above suggested, you should make your engage- 
 ments only for larye places during that week. You will have lots of invitations to go to the smaller 
 places, but such invitations must be put over, for you cannot afford to miss the best chance of the year 
 just to accommodate some small Post located in a small town that has no hall which will seat over four 
 or five hundred people. You are after larger game than that, and even at the risk of offending them, 
 you had better decline their invitation. But most persons are reasonable, and when you tell them just 
 how it is, they will not be offended at you for declining their invitation. Let them understand that 
 this is a matter of business with you, and that to accept their invitation for that time would be like 
 throwing away fifty or seventy-five dollars, and that you cannot afford to do it, and the chances are that 
 you will maintain perfect good feeling and will make a " date " for some other time with them. 
 
 Question 22. How did your Company get the original war photographs, if they 
 
 were taken by the U. $. Government Photographers? 
 
 Answer. During the war the United States Government authorized and employed Messrs. 
 M. B. Brady and Alex Gardiner, two of the leading photographers of this country, to procure the most 
 excellent cameras possible and to accompany the Union armies in the field, making photographs of all 
 those wonderfully interesting and thrilling scenes. The object of this was to preserve in accurate 
 form an illustrated historical record of the scenes of the war, to be treasured in the archives of the War 
 Department in Washington. Messrs. Brady and Gardiner were permitted, by the terms of their con- 
 tract with the Government, to make two negatives of each scene; they therefore prepared their cameras 
 so that when they photographed any scene there were two separate negatives made, both exactly alike, 
 of course. Both negatives were original and both made at the same moment by the same "exposure," 
 as the photographers call it. So they went on, through the entire war, photographing thousands of 
 scenes, Of each scene they had the two negatives, as above explained, making two complete sets all 
 through. One set of these negatives was placed in the War Department at Washington, where they 
 have since been treasured and where they now remain. The other set of negatives were stored away at 
 the close of the war, and as years went by they were almost forgotten. We accidentally discovered 
 them, packed away in a store-room and covered with the dust of almost a quarter of a century. We 
 contracted to purchase the entire collection, and we paid the owners thousands and thousands of dollars
 
 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 27 
 
 on the contract, until we have finally paid up the entire amount, and we now own, absolutely, the 
 whole of this most wonderful and interesting collection. The other set is, as above stated, in the archives 
 of the War Department at Washington, where it will always be treasured. The Government set is not, 
 and never will be, for sale, for the United States is not in business commercially, and of course never will 
 undertake any business in opposition to any of its citizens. Consequently we say that no original war 
 photographs can ever be obtained except of us. To say that these negatives are worth their weight in 
 gold would be putting a cheap value on them. They are priceless, and should anything happen to 
 destroy them they could never be replaced, for of course the scenes they represent are gone forever, and 
 consequently no more photographs could ever be made. We carry a heavy line of insurance on the col- 
 lection, but insurance money could not replace them if they should be destroyed. 
 
 Question 93. How soon will you get the war photographs all catalogued? 
 
 Answer. We cannot tell. We are now at work on the negatives, identifying, arranging, and 
 preparing them for the catalogue ; but it is slow workj because there are so many of the views that we 
 cannot identify or classify. In many cases the label which the photographer put on the negative when 
 he made the photograph, almost thirty years ago, has been lost off, so that when the negatives came into 
 our hands many of them had no label on, and we are working along carefully with them, getting them 
 identified by comrades who sometimes see a view which they can recognize. We have large albums in 
 our office, in which we have put a copy of each view, and when comrades visit us we set them down in 
 a comfortable chair and request them to look over the albums, and when they see a view that they can 
 positively recognize and identify, to give us the name and description of the view. In this way we are 
 gradually getting the scenes identified and classified, and ready for the catalogue. We do not wish to be 
 in too much of a hurry about publishing, because we prefer to take time and make sure that we get the 
 names and descriptions right before we print them. 
 
 Question 24. How large a scene do you show on the curtain? 
 
 Answer. We usually make about a fourteen-foot view. This is large enough so that it can 
 be seen clearly from all parts of the house. A fourteen-foot view covers about two hundred square 
 feet of canvas, and brings out all the details of the scene nicely. Of course, as to the question of how 
 large a scene to make, we can only say that the exhibitor must be guided by circumstances and by the 
 size of the hall he is exhibiting in. You sometimes get into a hall where the ceiling is not high enough 
 so that you can make a fourteen-foot picture. In that case you must of course make a smaller view. 
 The Stereopticon will make any size view that you require, from a five-foot scene to a twenty-five foot 
 scene. In a small hall it is not necessary to make so large a view as if you were in an opera-house or a 
 large hall. In Music Hall, Providence, R. I., we ma.de a view almost thirty feet square. This was 
 necessary, owing to the great size of the hall. Music Hall seats over five thousand people, and it is 
 nearly ninety feet from the front of the balcony, or dress circle, to the stage. This is the only hall we 
 ever found where we were obliged to make so large a view. The view is not as good when it is enlarged 
 over twenty-five feet square. As above stated, a fourteen-foot scene is about the right thing, and you 
 will very seldom find it necessary to make it any larger than that. 
 
 NOTICE. 
 
 In the seven foregoing pages we have answered some of the questions which will 
 naturally arise in the mind of any person who is interested and disposed to engage in 
 the business of the War View Exhibition. We have given you, in the answers to 
 these questions, such information as we have gained in our own experience with the 
 exhibition. After reading over these questions and answers carefully, if you desire any 
 further information than is there given, we shall be pleased to correspond with you, or 
 to have you come and make us a visit and look the business over. 
 
 Yours in F., 0., & L. f 
 
 THE WAR PHOTOGRAPH & EXHIBITION COMPANY, 
 
 (Incorporated under the Laws of the State of Connecticut, December 27, A. D. 1890,) 
 
 No. 2 State Street, HARTFORD, CONN. 
 
 WILLIAM HUNTINGTON, President. (First Sergeant Co. " D," 8th Conn. Infantry.) 
 JOHN C. TAYLOR, Secretary and Treasurer. (Sergeant Co. " B," First Conn. Artillery.) 
 CHARLES STARR, Assistant Secretary.
 
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 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY. 
 
 An Instructive and Entertaining Exhibition. 
 
 *x LETTERS AND PRESS NOTICES. 
 
 The following are a few of the many unsolicited letters and press notices we have received 
 
 ^ From the " WATERBURY AMERICAN." 
 
 _ It was indeed an evening of rare enjoyment at Music 
 
 _ Hall last night. The hall was full by 8 o'clock, and many 
 
 _ were turned away. Before beginning there was some spec- 
 
 ^ ulation as to the merits of the novel entertainment, but 
 
 _ the moment the pictures began to appear before the aud- 
 
 -i ience all speculation was banished. From first to last, the 
 
 _ whole audience was carried away with enthusiasm. Of 
 
 _ course the old veterans were beyond restraint; their 
 
 _ frequent responses to the lecturer, or spontaneous cheers 
 
 _ over some familiar scene added a special charm to the 
 
 ^ entertainment. We may consider ourselves fortunate to 
 
 ^ live in a time when we can hear from a veteran's own lips 
 
 ^ the true stories of the war, and see these men recognize 
 
 ^ and enthuse over the spots where they endured so much 
 
 ^ for their country. They are not going to be with us many 
 
 ? jr*ir8 more, and then we shall regret every opportunity 
 
 ^ that we have lost of this kind, for it pertains to the most 
 
 ?s interesting period of American history. The views wer 
 
 pronounced by the best judges strikingly life-like, and 
 
 when the audience went away they felt as tho 
 
 been taking a trip over those historic grounds. Every 
 
 ough they 
 ounds. Ev 
 
 had 
 
 one was astonished at the perfection of the wonderful 
 photographs taken by Government Photographer Brady, 
 and seemed to appreciate the fact that these were the only 
 available copies of these pictures extant. Some of them 
 were beautifully colored, and all true to life. The lectur- 
 er, Commander John C. Taylor, of Post No. 60, G.A. R., 
 Hartford, was a member of Major Bannon's Company, in 
 the First Connecticut Heavies, and is a very pleasant 
 speaker, interspersing his lecture with many amusing 
 anecdotes. He apologized that it was^he first time he had 
 used this manuscript, but the apology was unnecessary. 
 It is probable that the Camp will yield to the popular de- 
 mand, and bring the entertainment here again in the 
 Spring, thua gratifying those who went last night, and 
 those who are to-day expressing so universally their re- 
 gret that they did not go. 
 
 From the "HARTFORD COURANT." 
 
 Mr. John C. Taylor of this city had a gratifying ova- 
 tion at the Opera House last evening, where he gave bis 
 entertainment entitled, "The War for the Union." The 
 audience was very large, and the Woman's Relief Corps of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic, will profit handsomely 
 by it. This entertainment interests everybody, whether 
 veterans or not, and it is sure to draw a liberal patronage 
 wherever it is given. 
 
 From the "NEW HAVEN JOURNAL AND 
 COURIER." 
 
 A large and attentive audience occupied the darkened 
 Atheneum last evening when John C. Taylor, of Hartford, 
 commenced the second lecture of the battle scenes ot 
 " The War for the Union." Like the lecture of Wednes- 
 day evening it was overflowing with interest and replete 
 with instances of the great civil struggle. The illustrations 
 were startlingiy realistic; the attention of the audience 
 was held from beginning to end. To-night's lecture is 
 the last of this pleasant and instructive course. 
 
 From the "HARTFORD TIMES." 
 
 In securing Mr. John C. Taylor to give his illustrated 
 war lecture, the G. A. R. were instrumental in bringing out 
 the best entertainment seen here for a long time. Indeed, 
 in the line treated, it has never been equaled. The lec- 
 turer carried his audience back to war days, by a few well- 
 chosen words, and then by a series of interesting and soul- 
 stirring scenes, thrown upon the canvas, transported his 
 hearers to the front and gave the home-guard those stay 
 at-home-patriots an idea of the horrors of war; and even 
 the veterans, who were "at the front" for three years or 
 more got ideas of the immensity of dread war which they 
 did not pick up by actual experience. The lecturer had 
 an attractive way of introducing the rapidly changing views 
 which had a pleasing effect, and at times it was a question 
 whether the audience was the most charmed at the words 
 of the speaker, or by the excellence and variety of the 
 scenes so distinctly thrown upon the canvas. If the ex- 
 cellence of this entertainment was generally understood 
 Mr. Taylor would be busy in answering calls for it. 
 
 A Letter Irom A CRIPPLED COMRADE In the 
 Far 'West. 
 
 . What Old Soldiers think of the War Photographs. 
 
 SARATOGA, Wyoming Territory 
 THE WAE PHOTOGBAPH & EXHIBITION Co., Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Dear Comrades: Tfie sample views I sent for came 
 O. K., and to-day two more for which accept thanks. 
 
 I thought at one time that I would try to do something 
 toward exhibiting these war views, but the country is too 
 thinly settled yet to make anything at it. If I were back 
 in the States or located in some large town like Cheyenne 
 or Laramie City I might do well. 
 
 It would be difficult to tell how much I value these 
 photographs and I get them down most every day and 
 look them all over carefully. 
 
 No one but an old soldier can form any idea how vividly 
 these views bring back old times, and as I look into the 
 past they represent, I can hear the singing of bullets, the 
 boom of artillery, and the screaming of shells mingled 
 with the shouts of the soldiers and the groans of the 
 wounded and dying. 
 
 I am dependent upon the pension I get for a living and 
 I have anything but an easy luxurious life of it as you 
 well know. Diseased in almost every tissue, I am unable 
 to perform the slightest manual labor, still if I could afford 
 it, I would have every war view you have even though 
 they cost double what they do. 
 
 My wife complains and says they make me moody and 
 distressed. They do not. They only make me live over the 
 past again. They carry my mind back to the time when I 
 could endure any fatigue or exposure; when I could lie 
 down upon a pile of rails or lean up against a tree and 
 sleep Oh ! how I could sleep when I could eat raw bacon 
 and drink water from a horse track and was glad to get it. 
 
 Some of these days I hope to be better off than now. 
 Then I want every view you have. Until then I wish you 
 every success, and I'd like- to help you on in your good 
 work, for it seems to me every old soldier owes you a debt 
 of gratitude for your enterprise in preserving these me- 
 morials of the past and placing them within reach of all. 
 Yours in F. C. and L., 
 
 JOHN F. CRAWFORD. 
 
 A collection of views cannot be sent on approval, or to be selected from and part of them returned ; for the simple 
 reason that there are not views enough to accommodate the thousands of comrades who would be defighted to take them 
 and sit down and look them all over and pick out those they wish to buy. It is simply impossible to do the business in 
 this way. We would like to accommodate every comrade who wishes to see all of these interesting war views, but the 
 only way we can do it is to invite all who wish to see the collection to come to our office in Hartford, and we will take 
 pleasure in having you spend as many hours as you like in looking over the scenes that were once so familiar to us all. 
 We are glad to welcome any comrade or other person who is interested in the war scenes, and show him a collection of 
 views of the great war, that will amply repay him for the time spent in visiting us. We have more than six thousand 
 different views. 
 
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 These War Photographs are not in "the trade, 
 of our authorized Agents. Reliable Agents wanted. 
 
 They can be procured only of us, or T 
 
 Comrade 
 
 THE WAR PHOTOGRAPH & EXHIBITION COMPANY, 
 
 No. 2 State Street, HARTFORD, CONN. 
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 -If you find nothing in this Catalogue which interests you, will you please hand it 
 to some comrade or other person who might make us a good Agent.