University of Virginia Library

Descriptive List of Illustrations

• THE UNION SOLDIER . . . . . . .Frontispiece
  Memorial statue at Newburyport, Massachusetts.
• SLAVE QUARTERS 4
  A log house, with log chimney; from a photograph.
• A SOUTHERN HOME 9
  House of Mr. Robertson, Columbia, South Carolina.
• IN THE COTTON FIELDS 40
  From a recent photograph.
• A FIELD HAND 48
  Woman going to work; from a recent photograph.
• A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD . . . . 53
  House of Squire Ambrose Hart, Brookfield, Ohio.
• AN UNDERGROUND CONDUCTOR . . . . . . . 59
  Portrait of Harriet Tubman, who led three hundred slaves to freedom.
• JOHN BROWN 70
  From a portrait now in Kansas.
• THE CONTRABAND'S HOME . . . . . . . . . .77
  One of the better Negro cabins, occupied at one time by Booker T. Washington.
• A SLAVE MOTHER . . . . . . .85
  From a photograph.
• A SOUTHERN SCHOOLHOUSE . . . . . . 94
  Schoolhouse of the Jeffersons and Randolphs at Tuckahoe, Virginia.
• PICKANINNIES 98
  Negro children; from a recent photograph.
• CONTRABANDS 107
  From a contemporary picture.
• LINCOLN VISITING THE ARMY . . . . . . . . . u6
  At Falmouth, Virginia; April, 1865.
• CAMP SCENE . . . . . . . 122
  From a war-time photograph.
• A BAGGAGE WAGON . . . . . . . . 137
  From the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts.
• THE SCOUT . . . . . . . . . 148
  From the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts.
• A MULE TEAM . . . . . . . . . . . 164
  Usual vehicle for carrying supplies for the Army; from the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts.
• A PRIVATE . . . . . . .176
  William McKinley, 23d Ohio Volunteers, then eighteen years old ; later President of the United States.
• BIRTHPLACE OF GENERAL GRANT . . . . . . . . . 180
  At Dayton, Ohio; from a photograph.
• A MIDDY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
  F. E. Chadwick, later Admiral of the United States Navy; taken about 1860.
• TAD LINCOLN . . . . . . . . .193
  Youngest son of the President; died during the Civil War.
• BOY SOLDIERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
  Boys as young as sixteen sometimes enlisted in the Army.
• A Boy's DRUM . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
  .Used by a drummer boy in the service.
• GENERAL CUSTER 212
  Gallant cavalry officer; killed by Indians, 1876.
• WAR ENVELOPES 222
  Confederate envelopes; from the Lenox collection.
• A BREAD OVEN . . . . . . . . 228
  Used for making soft bread, much preferred by the soldiers to hard tack."
• REBEL ARMY CROSSING THE POTOMAC . 235
  For the invasion of Maryland, 1862. Forbes' etchings.
• UNION PICKET LINE . . . . . . . . . . 250
  From the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts.
• SURRENDER OF GENERAL LEE 259
  From the painting by Chappel.
• FORAGING IN LOUISIANA 262
  From Harper's Monthly, April, 1865
• AN ARMY POST OFFICE . . . . . . . . . 268
  Communication was constantly kept up through moving post offices.
• THE ENCAMPMENT AT NIGHT . . . . . . . . . . 274
  From Harper's Monthly, December, 1864.
• GENERAL SHERMAN . . . . . . . . . . . 288
  Portrait of General William T. Sherman; taken after the Civil War.
• A PONTOON BRIDGE . . . . . . . . . . .295
  Much used in Virginia campaigns; from Forbes' etchings.
• A MILITARY BRIDGE. . . . . . . . . 305
  Famous bridge across the Chickahominy River, used in the Peninsular Campaign of 1862.
• DESTROYING A RAILROAD . . . . . . . 313
  Scenes on Sherman's March to the Sea; from a drawing by Darley.
• OLD ABE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
  War eagle, member of a Wisconsin regiment.
• THE FIRST UNITED STATES IRONCLAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
  A river steamer, cut down and iron-plated ; October, 1861.
• MONITOR AND MERRIMAC . . . . . . . . . . 353
  From a painting by Chappel.
• ARRIVAL OF MAIL ON THE PASSAIC . . . . . 359
  Showing the Contracted quarters on a United States Monitor.
• DAVID FARRAGUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
  In the shrouds—at the battle of Mobile, in 1864—from the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts.
• A BIG SHIP GUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
  On board U. S. S. Miami; from the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts.
• A QUARTERMASTER'S STEAMER . . . . . . . . . 379
  Steamer Missionary, used to supply the Army of the Cumberland.
• AN ARMY NURSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
  Miss Anna Lowell, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• CONFEDERATE MONEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
  State and Confederate Notes.
• A NORTHERN BELLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
  Helen Marcia Hart, of Hartford, Ohio.
• IN THE HOSPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
  From Harper's Magazine, August, 1864.
• A CONFEDERATE SPY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
  A portrait of Belle Boyd, a famous woman scout.