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Echoes of Valor: The American Civil War Through the Lens

Explore the poignant moments of the American Civil War captured in stunning detail

This carefully chosen collection honours significant conflicts, important personalities, and ordinary life during one of the most turbulent times in American history. Every picture has a tale to tell, revealing the bravery and hardships that both soldiers and civilians must endure. These striking images, which range from combat scenes to personal portraiture, stand as a tribute to the Civil War's lasting legacy and encourage visitors to consider the significant influence that history has had on modern-day America.

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North Carolina Politician Zebulon Bair Vance

American Senator Stephen A. Douglas

Union Officers Outside Tent

The Union Must be Preserved at All Hazards Political Cartoon

Stonewall Jackson; Waist Up

Union Infantry Corporal Holding Revolver

Youngest Soldier in U.S. Civil War

Civil War Field Hospital

General Ulysses S. Grant in Uniform

Freed African Americans Along a Wharf

Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant in Uniform

Confederate Soldiers Relaxing at their Camp

Sgt. Oscar Ryder of the Union Army

Ambrose Everett Burnside

Portrait of Civil War Soldier Kady Brownell

Wounded Civil War Zouave Soldier

USS Baron de Kalb Ironclad Gunboat

Confederate Army with Cannon

Mary A. Ball Bickerdyke

Union General Daniel E. Sickles in Civil War Uniform

General George Custer

Civil War Volunteer Clara Barton Sitting by Clock

Allan Pinkerton During Civil War

American Troops at Civil War Camp

Confederate Army Captain George Hillyer

Two Confederate Soldiers

Union Officers in Camp

Stonewall Jackson

Union Officer Carl Schurz

Armory Square Hospital During the United States Civil War

Wounded Soldier During the American Civil War

Confederate "Zouaves" Soldier

Private Francis E. Brownell

Confederate Naval Yard

Mathew Brady Seated

Woodcut of the Confederate Army Recruiting

U.S. Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton

Sergeant John R. Fell

Two Confederate Soldiers

Civil War Parade; Zouaves March; Lithogr

Civil War Photographer Matthew Brady

Spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow with Her Daughter

Portrait of Confederate Spy Belle Boyd

Confederate General Braxton Bragg in Uniform

Staff of Union General Andrew Porter

Union Soldiers with Cannon

Wounded Resting At Field Hospital

Fugitive Slaves Ford Rappahannock River

Abraham Lincoln at Antietam During Civil War

Lincoln Visits Civil War Headquarters

African American Soldier Shooting Corner

The Capture Of Arkansas Post; Ar

Drummer Boys of the 61st New York Infantry During the Civil War

Army Factions At Gettysburg Battlefield

19th-Century Print of Rioters Attacking Brownstones

The Wounded Soldiers By Matthew Brady

Photographers at Signal Tower

Filling water barrels from a well

Union Army Arsenal at City Point

William T. Sherman in Uniform

Company E in Formation

Children Posing by Column

Rear Admiral John Dahlgren

Robert E. Lee

General Robert E. Lee on Porch

General Ulysses S. Grant

Abraham Lincoln's Body on Display at New York City Hall

General William Tecumseh Sherman

Freed Slaves In The South

General George Custer

Actress and Union Army Spy Pauline Cushman

Before And After Civil War

Grant Writing Memoirs

Captain Dodge's Troops to the Rescue

Political Cartoon of Jefferson Davis As a Donkey

Portrait Of Confederate Officer

General Stonewall Jackson's Cook

Union Cavalry Private Holding Gun

Portrait of Jefferson Davis

Portrait of Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth

Painting of a Docked Confederate Torpedo Boat

Confederate Army Recruiting

Political Cartoon of Jefferson Davis Carrying a Lighthouse and Fort Sumpter



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