Collection Items

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    British Artillerymen Pulling a Gun.
    British artillerymen pulling a gun
    This unfinished ink sketch by Benjamin West (1738-1820) shows British artillerymen from the Napoleonic Wars straining at a rope to drag a canon. The tenth child of a Pennsylvania innkeeper, West became one of the foremost artists of his day, despite having had very little formal education. In 1763, he moved to London, where he became a co-founder of the Royal Academy of Arts....
    • Contributor: West, Benjamin
    • Date: 1800-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Colonel Benjamin Franklin Kelley. Benjamin Franklin Kelley (1807--91) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in New Hampton, New Hampshire, he worked for a time as a freight agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Upon the outbreak of the war, he raised the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned colonel. He was badly wounded at Philippi, West Virginia, and promoted to brigadier...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) was the 16th president of the United States. He was born on a farm in Kentucky and moved with his family to Indiana at age eight. At age 21, he moved to Illinois, where he held various jobs and began to study law. He had less than one year of formal education, but became a skilled writer by reading the King...
    • Contributor: Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Major General William Rosecrans. William Rosecrans (1819-98) was a general on the Union side in the American Civil War. Born in Kingston, Ohio, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1842. After serving in the Engineer Corps and as assistant professor at West Point, he left the army in 1854 to take up a career in architecture and civil engineering. Upon the outbreak...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Brigadier General John Pope. John Pope (1822-92) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1842 and served in the Mexican War of 1846-48 and in the Army engineering corps in connection with the development of the American West. When the Civil War broke out, he initially commanded troops in the...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Lieutenant Colonel William J. Hardee. William Joseph Hardee (1815--73) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1838 and served in the Mexican War (1846-48). During the Civil War, he commanded the Army of Tennessee and fought in the battles of Shiloh, Perryville, and Stones River. He was in command of the...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Major General George B. McClellan. George McClellan (1826-85) was one of four generals during the American Civil War to hold the post of general in chief of the armies of the United States, the others being Winfield Scott, Henry Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant. McClellan was born in Philadelphia, graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1846, and served in the engineer corps during the...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Major General David Hunter. David Hunter (1802--86) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in Washington, DC, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1822. Unlike many generals of his generation, he did not see action in the Mexican War (1846-48). He was assigned a division at the onset of the Civil War in 1861. He was badly injured in...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Mikhail Baryshnikov in the Role of Vestris. This photograph from the series "Diverse Baryshnikov" was taken by photographer Leonid Zhdanov (1927--2010) in 1969 at the First International Ballet Competition in Moscow. The miniature ballet Vestris by choreographer Leonid Yakobson (1904-75) became one of the most exciting surprises at the competition. Baryshnikov (born 1948) was able to render the life story of the most famous dancer of the 18th century. A braggart...
    • Contributor: Zhdanov, Leonid
    • Date: 1969-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    General Leonidas Polk, Confederate States of America. Leonidas Polk (1806-64) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1827. He later left the army for the church, and became the first Episcopal bishop of Louisiana in 1841. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he offered his services to the Confederate army and...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Brigadier General Samuel P. Heintzelman. Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1805--80) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in Manheim, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1826 and served in the Mexican War (1846-48). During the Civil War, he commanded a division in the First Battle of Bull Run (also called the First Battle of Manassas) and as a corps commander...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Major General Henry Halleck. Henry Halleck (1815-72) was born in Waterville, New York. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1839, and served in the Mexican War of 1846-48. He retired from the army in 1854 to practice law, but after the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 he reentered the service with the rank of major general. He commanded the Department...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Scholten, J. A. (John A.) - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Major General Irvin McDowell. Irvin McDowell (1818-85) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1838 and fought in the Mexican War of 1846-48. Early in the Civil War he was a brigadier general at the head of the Department of Northeastern Virginia, and thus was in command of the Union...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Brigadier General Fitz-John Porter. Fitz-John Porter (1822--1901) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1845 and fought in the Mexican War (1846--48). As a corps commander, he successfully led troops in the Peninsular Campaign of 1862 and was promoted to major general. His military career ended when, in the...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate States of America. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-93) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Born near New Orleans, Louisiana, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1838. He served with distinction in the Mexican War (1846-48). With the outbreak of the Civil War, he resigned his commission in the United States Army and entered the Confederate army. In June...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate States of America. Joseph E. Johnston (1807-91) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Born at Cherry Grove, near Farmville, Virginia, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1829 and fought in the Black Hawk, Seminole, and Mexican Wars. Early in the Civil War he commanded the Army of the Shenandoah and in that capacity led Confederate forces at the...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    President Millard Fillmore. Millard Fillmore (1800-74) was the 13th president of the United States. The son of a poor tenant farmer from western New York, Fillmore received only a very limited education. After being apprenticed to a clothier, he read law with a local judge and was admitted to the New York state bar in 1823. A member of the Whig Party, he served three terms in...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Commander Charles S. Boggs. Charles Stuart Boggs (1811--88) was a Union naval officer in the American Civil War. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he served as lieutenant aboard the steamer USS Princeton in the Mexican War (1846--48), where he earned a reputation for remaining calm in time of danger. During the Civil War, he was assigned to command the USS Varuna in the fleet of Admiral David...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Brigadier General Joseph Hooker. Joseph Hooker (1814-79) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in Hadley, Massachusetts, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the Mexican War (1846-48). During the Civil War, he commanded a division in the Peninsular Campaign of 1862 and as a corps commander led the initial Union attacks at the Battle of Antietam. In...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Commodore Theodorus Bailey. Theodorus Bailey (1805--77) was a Union naval officer in the American Civil War. He was born in Chateaugay, New York, and joined the navy as a midshipman at age 13. His early service included two circumnavigations of the globe by the age of 31. Bailey received his first command during the Mexican War (1846-48). At the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861,...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Brigadier General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Confederate States of America. Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823-1914) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Born in the border state of Kentucky, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he later taught, and served with the U.S. Army in the Mexican War (1846-48). He resigned from the army in 1855 to practice law in Kentucky. He entered the service of the...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Brigadier General George Washington Cullum. George Washington Cullum (1809--92) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in New York City, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1833 and served in the Army Corps of Engineers developing fortifications along the New England coast and in the Mexican War (1846--48). Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, he was promoted to...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Brigadier General Joseph K. Mansfield. Joseph King Fenno Mansfield (1803--62) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1822. Mansfield served in the Army Corps of Engineers planning fortifications along the southeast coast, such as Fort Pulaski, Georgia. He served with distinction as chief engineer under Colonel Zachary Taylor in the...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Colonel Erasmus D. Keyes. Erasmus Darwin Keyes (1810--95) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, and raised in Maine, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1832. Unlike many generals from both the North and the South, he did not see action in the Mexican War. During the first year of the Civil War, he successfully led...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Brigadier General Robert Anderson. Robert Anderson (1805--71) was a U.S. Army officer in the American Civil War who gained national fame as the major commanding the Union garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina when the Civil War began. Born near Louisville, Kentucky, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1825. He fought in the Black Hawk (1832) and Second Seminole...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page