Over 800 stereographs with Civil War content have been digitized. Some were published during the war years, 1861-1865, and others were published as memorials towards the end of the nineteenth century.
Includes cards published by many publishers from the works of many photographers. Included are works by Matthew Brady and W.H. Tipton, with many published by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., Taylor & Huntington, Underwood & Underwood, Kilburn & Bros., J.B. Linn and John C. Taylor.
The collection includes many views from the major battlefields during the war, including Antietam, Battle of the Wilderness, and the Battle of Gettysburg, shown after the destruction, some with the dead on the fields. There are images of the Boston Light Infantry, soldier camps, families, and the cities of Charleston, S.C., Nashville, Tenn., Richmond, Fredericksburg and Petersburg, Va. Also includes images of the monuments erected and dedicated to those lost at the Battle of Gettysburg. Includes views of the Washington Navy Yard, Libby Prison, Fort Marion in Florida, Lookout Mountain and cemeteries of dead soldiers.