Civil War

Title: Washington, District of Columbia. Execution of the Conspirators: View of the Scaffold
Description: Photograph of the conspirators Surratt, Powell, Herold, and Atzerodt before their hanging on July 7, 1865.
Object Type: Image
Date: July 7, 1865

Title: Henry Miller
Description: This carte de visite depicts Henry Miller, who served in the Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The photograph was produced ca. 1861-1865.
Object Type: Image

Title: Florella Brown Adair
Description: Florella Brown Adair was the wife of Samuel Lyle Adair and the half-sister of abolitionist, John Brown. She settled near Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, with her husband, who was a Congregational minister. She and her husband were free state supporters. The identification on the photograph indicates it is an enlargement of a small photograph taken in 1862.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1862

Title: D.R. Porter
Description: This carte de visite depicts D.R. Porter, who served as Assistant Surgeon in the Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The photograph was produced ca. 1861-1865.
Object Type: Image

Title: Pleasant Hill, Missouri
Description: This bird's eye view of Pleasant Hill, Cass County, Missouri was created by A. Ruger in 1869.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1869

Title: Nathaniel Lyon
Description: Illustration of Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon before his final charge at the battle of Wilson's Creek. Originally published in Harper's Weekly on August 31, 1861, this illustration's caption states: "General Lyon at the Battle of Springfield." Although Harper's Weekly describes this as the Battle of Springfield, this conflict has come to be known as the Battle of Wilson's Creek. The next skirmish in the area, Zagonyi's Charge, occured near Springfield, Missouri on October 25, 1861.
Object Type: Image
Date: August 31, 1861

Title: Battle of the Wilderness--Desperate Fight on the Orange C.H. Plank Road, Near Todd's Tavern, May 6th, 1864
Description: Kurz & Allison lithograph of the Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5-7, 1864.
Object Type: Image

Title: Fort Union
Description: A drawing made at the close of the war depicting the Quartermaster's Department, Fort Union, and the Coates House Hotel foundation. These structures were located on the southeast corner of 10th and Broadway in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.
Object Type: Image

Title: Charles L. Wall
Description: This sepia carte de visite depicts Charles L. Wall, 1st Lieut. of Company H, Seventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The photograph was produced ca. 1861-1865.
Object Type: Image

Title: John Brown, 1800-1859, Memorial Frame
Description: Memorial portrait of Abolitionist John Brown. Frame includes the words, "The Just man shall be in eternal remembrance -- Gave his life for the liberation of the slave."
Object Type: Image

Title: Battle of Pea Ridge
Description: Currier & Ives lithograph depicting the Battle of Pea Ridge, circa 1862.
Object Type: Image

Title: Olin E. Morse
Description: This carte de visite depicts Capt. Olin E. Morse, who served in Company D, Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The photograph was produced ca. 1861-1865.
Object Type: Image

Title: Sacking of Lawrence
Description: Depiction of the ruins of Free State Hotel following the Sacking of Lawrence on May 21, 1856. Douglas County's own sheriff, Samuel J. Jones, led a posse of 800 proslavery settlers in the sacking of the town of Lawrence, Kansas. The Free-State Hotel and two newspaper print shops were destroyed, and one of the attackers was killed by falling masonry.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1856

Title: Battle of Pea Ridge
Description: This illustration of the final advance of Union troops at the Battle of Pea Ridge was originally published in Harper's Weekly on March 8, 1862.
Object Type: Image
Date: March 8, 1862

Title: James Buchanan
Description: Bust portrait of James Buchanan, facing right
Object Type: Image
Date: 1850-1870

Title: To Arms! To Arms! Confederate Enlistment Poster, 1862
Description: Recruiting poster for the Confederate States of America, Floyd County, Virginia, February 22, 1862.
Object Type: Image
Date: February 22, 1862

Title: Thirty-six star flag
Description: Image of a United States flag with 36 stars and 13 stripes. This flag design came about in July 1865 and lasted for two years.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1864 - 1867

Title: Topeka, Kansas
Description: Bird's eye view of the city of Topeka, the capital of Kansas, in 1869.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1869

Title: "Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street
Description: Black and white photograph of an Atlanta, Georgia, slave market taken my George N. Barnard, official photographer of the Chief Engineer's Office, while Sherman's army occupied the city before the famous "March to the Sea" during the Savannah Campaign.
Object Type: Image

Title: Pacific House Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view of the Pacific House Hotel; located on southeast corner of 4th and Delaware. In 1863, it became the District of the Border headquarters, which was then under command of Brigadier General Thomas Ewing Jr..
Object Type: Image
Date: 1869

Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865

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