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Soldiers fighting on the battlefield at Antietam

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

Buffington Island battle map with army positions

CC BY-SA 3.0 by Conaughy at English Wikipedia

Historical marker at the site of the Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi

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

Battle of Chattanooga painting by Thure de Thulstrup

"Battle of Chattanooga" by Thure de Thulstrup (1880).

Battle of the Crater explosion artistic rendering

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.


"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

The Union Fleet Bombarding Forts Hatteras and Clark (from a wartime sketch)

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

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

Battle of Nashville Sketch

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

Sketch by Alfred Waud of a ship at Deep Bottom

Sketch by Alfred Waud of a ship at Deep Bottom

Sketch of Second Battle of Fort Fisher

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]

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