Metropolitan Museum of Art/Timothy H. O'Sullivan/Alexander Gardner
Field Where General Reynolds Fell, Gettysburg, 1863
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features more than 200 photographs and photographic artifacts from the American Civil War.
Thousands of images were created during the four violent years of the conflict. The Met's exhibit features battlefield landscapes, as well as intimate portraits of soldiers and prominent figures of the time.
Photographing and the American Civil War, is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from April 2-May 2 and will later travel to museums in South Carolina and New Orleans. For more information, visit the Museum's website.
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Charles Henry Lanneau
Fincher Brothers, Company I, "Zollicoffer Rifles," Forty-third Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee, 1863
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Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance", 1864
An Abolitionist, human rights activist and former slave, Truth sold pictures of herself to fund raise for the education of emancipated slaves and to aid widows, orphans and the wounded.
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Mathew B. Brady
Presidential Campaign Medal with portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, 1860
This double-sided circular medal depicts Abraham Lincoln on one side and Hannibal Hamlin on the other and is encased in a stamped brass medallion.
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Alexander Gardner
"A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg", July 1863
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Alexander Gardner
Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, July 1863
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Private James House with Fighting Knife, Sixteenth Georgia Cavalry Battalion, Army of Tennessee, 1861-62
Metropolitan Museum of Art/John Reekie/Alexander Gardner
A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia, April 1865
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Samuel Masury
Frances Clalin Clayton, 1864-66
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Confederate Soldier with Handgun in Belt, Holding Bowie Knife, 1861-62
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Gayford & Speidel
Private Gid White, Company F, 108th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry, 1865
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Political Necklace with Portraits of Confederate States President Jefferson Davis, Vice President Alexander Stephens, and Secretary of War John Breckenridge, 1861-65
This necklace features a string of photographic prints set in disks of carved tagua nut or "vegetable ivory."
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Alexander Gardner
Ruins of Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, 1865
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Andrew Joseph Russell
Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia, 1863
Metropolitan Museum of Art/George Smith Cook
Young Boy in Zouave Outfit, with Drum, 1861-65
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Alma A. Pelot
Western Barracks and Parade, Fort Sumter, April 15, 1861
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Alma A. Pelot
Terre-plein and Parapet, Fort Sumter, April 15, 1861
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Alma A. Pelot/Jesse H. Bolles/Edward Anthony
Hamilton's Floating Battery Moored at the End of Sullivan's Island the Night Before They Opened Fire upon Fort Sumter, April 1861
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Confederate Corporal, Seated, in Gothic Revival Chair, 1861-65
Metropolitan Museum of Art/George N. Barnard
Ruins of Mrs. Henry's House, Battlefield of Bull Run, March 1862
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Mathew B. Brady
Camp Brightwood near Washington, 1862
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Mathew B. Brady
Camp Sprague, First Rhode Island Regiment, Company D, before July 16, 1861
