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Our Civil War Heritage
Virtually all of the photographs and ephemera shown on this page (many of which are in our National Archives) were originally owned by families who preserved them after the Civil War. Without this kind of care, much of our nation's history would be lost for all time.


 

Tiny photograph of
Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster.


 

 

Gettysburg. Post-battle photograph from July 1863 showing the tower of the Seminary from which Union forces first spotted the approach of Confederate troops on July 2, 1863.

 

Family portrait photograph of
wartime Navy Secretary Gideon Welles.

 

Political cartoon that first appeared in Harper's Weekly following the first battle of Bull Run.

 

Pencil sketch of 1865 Union victory
parade down Pennsylvania Avenue
in Washington, D.C.

 

Photograph of freedman. The family
of a former slave managed to hold onto
this valuable photograph taken at the end of the war.

 

An 1861 photograph of Mary Todd Lincoln taken by Matthew Brady in Washington, D.C. Photograph was preserved by the Lincoln family.