"Contrabands at Headquarters of General Lafayette." "Contrabands" was an expression coined by Union General Benjamin F. Butler to describe escaped slaves.
Entrenched along the west bank of the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, Virginia, these Union soldiers were about to take part in the pivotal Battle of Chancellorsville, beginning on April 30, 1863.
Union General Phil Sheridan. Sheridan gave the photographer the hat he is wearing here, but workmen would later steal it from a trunk in the photography studio's cellar.
Union soldier Francis E. Brownell, wearing a Zouave uniform, with a bayoneted musket. The Medal of Honor recipient has a black crepe tied to his left arm in mourning for Col. E. E. Ellsworth.
Union officers and enlisted men stand around a 13-inch mortar, the "Dictator," on the platform of a flatbed railroad car in October, 1864 near Petersburg, Virginia.
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