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

Unknown author; Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A. / Restored by Michel Vuijlsteke [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Two, Two Years of Grim War. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 90.

CC BY-SA 3.0 by Conaughy at English Wikipedia

Ken Lund from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Waud, Alfred. "Scene of the explosion Saturday July 30th" Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g10794

Image from page 342 of "The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes" (1911), via Flickr.

Field works at Franklin, Tenn., occupied by the 23d and 4th corps during engagement of Nov. 30th , Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield, comdg. [S.l, 1864] Map. .

"Havoc," effects of a 32-pound shell from gun of Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. Confederate caisson and eight horses destroyed. Fredericksburg, May 3, 1863. Capt. Andrew J. Russell. Mathew Brady Collection. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons



"View from the summit of Little Round Top at 7:30 P.M. July 3rd, 1863", painting by Edwin Forbes

Destruction of the R.R. bridge, over the Monocacy River near Frederick, Md. Alfred R. Waud. 1864.

"Sketch of the Third Brigade, First Division, Sixteenth Corps at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee" by George H. Ellsbury, December 15, 1864.

Battle of Perryville image from Harper's Weekly (November 1, 1862)

Hospital scene behind the lines of Pickett's Charge, Gettysburg, Pa. Boston Public Library CC BY via Flickr

Sketch by Alfred Waud of a ship at Deep Bottom

Sketch of Second Battle of Fort Fisher, appeared in Harper's Weekly, February 4, 1865. page 72

Kurz & Alison, "Battle of Stone River." Library of Congress [Public domain]

Painting of H.L. Hunley submarine by Conrad Wise Chapman (1864)

"Admiral Porter's Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863." Colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives, New York, 1863.

The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney, [Public Domain] Library of Congress, via picryl.