NOrthern perspective
Portrait of the 16th President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln taken by Alexander Gardener on February 5, 1865. (LOC)
Portrait of Union General Ulysses S. Grant who later became the United States
President. (LOC)
President. (LOC)
Union officers of the 69th Infantry New York with Colonel Michael Corcoran. The photograph was taken by Mathew Brady at Fort Corcoran, Virginia which was a fort constructed by the Union as a part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. (NARA)
Stacked cannon balls at a Union arsenal in Washington D.C. (NARA)
The U.S. navy's first ironclad, the Monitor, on the James River, Virginia on July 9, 1862. The monitor played a vital part in the Union victory and famously defeated the Confederate ironclad, CSS Virginia. This photo was taken by James F. Gibson. (LOC)
Union nurse Anne Bell in a Union hospital around 1863. (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
The founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which later became the CIA, Allan Pinkerton in Maryland. Taken by Alexander Gardner in September 1862. (LOC)
Union Forces standing guard with cannons when fighting against General "Stonewall" Jackson's Confederate troops near Richmond, Virginia. Photograph taken by Mathew B. Brady between May 31 and June 1, 1862. (AP Photo)
Free African Americans collecting remains of dead soldiers from the battle near Cold harbor, Virginia. Photographed in April of 1865. (LOC)
Union soldiers at the Army of the Potomac winter headquarters near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Photographed by the famous Mathew B. Brady. (AP Photo)
Portrait of General William T. Sherman by Matthew Brady. (NARA)
President Abraham Lincoln with Union soldiers on the Battlefield Alexander Gardner
on October 1862. (LOC)
on October 1862. (LOC)
Portrait of Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside. (LOC)
Background
United States Capitol Building under construction prior to the Civil War. Photographed in 1960. (National Archives)
United States Capitol Building under construction prior to the Civil War. Photographed in 1960. (National Archives)