The “Dictator” siege mortar used by the Union Army at Petersburg, Virginia, USA, 1864.
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Mathew Brady, Union general Winfield S. Hancock and his staff during the Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. Standing, left to right, are generals Francis C. Barlow, David B. Birney, and John Gibbon, Virginia, May-June 1864.
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Mathew Brady, General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1865.
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H. Seymour Squyer, Harriet Tubman, ca. 1885.
Source: National Portrait Gallery
Harriet Tubman with slaves she helped rescue during the American Civil War, ca. 1885. Left to right: Harriet Tubman; Gertie Davis {Watson} (adopted daughter of Tubman} behind Tubman; Nelson Davis (husband and 8th USCT veteran); Lee Cheney (great-great-niece); “Pop” {John} Alexander; Walter Green; Blind “Aunty” Sarah Parker; Dora Stewart (great-niece and granddaughter of Tubman’s brother Robert Ross aka John Stewart).
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Carte de visite of Soujourner Truth, 1864.
Source: Gladstone Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
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Two children who were likely emancipated during the American Civil War, circa 1870.
Drummer boy John Clem, Nashville, Tennessee, 1860-1865.
Source: Library of Congress
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Scars of a whipped slave, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, 2 April 1863.
Original caption: “Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer. The very words of poor Peter, taken as he sat for his picture.”
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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George N. Barnard, Slave Market, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 1864.
