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April 1861–April 1862
Fort Sumter Falls
George T. Perry. Part of Charleston Harbor, Embracing Forts Moultrie, Sumter, Johnson, and Castle Pinckney, also Sullivan, James & Morris Islands. . . . Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son, ca. 1861. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0374000]
Alma Pelot, photographer. Confederate flag Flying [Interior view of Fort Sumter after the evacuation of Major Anderson], April 16, 1861. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (016.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32284]
And the War Came…
James Chesnut (1815–1885) and Stephen D. Lee (1833–1908) to Robert Anderson (1805–1871), April 12, 1861. Robert Anderson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0014]
To Secede or Not to Secede
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) to Roger Jones, April 20, 1861. Custis-Lee Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0017, cw0017p1]
Call to Arms
Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. . . . Concord, New Hampshire: Fogg, Hadley & Co., 1861. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0018]
Unatrributed. [Unidentified young soldier in 5th New Hampshire Infantry uniform.] Sixth-plate ambrotype, between 1861–1865. Promised gift of the Liljenquist Family, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-31304]
An Armchair Tactician
George Douglas Brewerton (1820–1901). The Automaton Regiment, or, Infantry Soldier’s Practical Instructor. New York: D. Van Nostrand, [1863]. Marian S. Carson Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0021]
Tedium of Camp Life
Orders No. 4, Headquarters 11th Regiment. . . . Broadside, 1861. Marian S. Carson Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0020]
Defense of Hearth and Home
Freemen! Of Tennessee! Morristown, Tennessee: Neal & Roberts, 1861. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0022]
60th Tennessee Infantryman
Unattributed. Sergeant James Bishop White of Company B, 60th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. Sixth-plate ambrotype, between 1861 and 1865. Promised gift of the Liljenquist Family, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (023.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32092]
Identifying Union and Confederate Supporters
F. F. Mead, Lt. Co. I, 16th New York Volunteers. [Map of part of Fairfax County, Virginia, south of the city of Alexandria and the Orange and Alexandria Railroad], August 30, 1861. Colored manuscript map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (216.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0536400]
The Anaconda Plan
J.B. Elliott. Scott’s Great Snake. Cincinnati: 1861. Printed color map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (025.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0011000]
“When I wish to catch rats, I first stop their holes— Gen’l Scott.” Wood engraving on gold wove paper envelope, ca. 1861. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (026.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33123]
Fortress Monroe
“Stampede among the Negroes in Virginia—Their Arrival at Fortress Monroe from Sketches by Our Special Artist in Fortress Monroe,” in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, June 8, 1861. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (028.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33130]
Contraband of War
Simon Cameron (1799–1889) to Benjamin F. Butler (1818–1893), May 30, 1861. Benjamin F. Butler Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (027.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0027, cw0027p1]
Brother against Brother
Henry P. Moore, photographer (1833–1911). Slaves of the Rebel Genl. Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C., [May 1862]. Albumen silver photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (034.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-04324]
War Changes Everything
Mr. Gregory (?), Beaufort County, Prince William Parrish, South Carolina. Diary entry, November 22, 1861. Greenwood Plantation Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (033.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0033]
Postal Patriotism
Civil War illustrated envelopes. [Baltimore: 1861]. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00, 030.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0029, cw0030]
Battle of Springfield
Die Schlacht bei Springfield in Nord-Amerika. Neuruppin: Oehmigke & Riemschneider, [ca. 1861]. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (035.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33124]
"A People's Contest"
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). July 4, 1861, Message to Congress [drafted May–June 1861]. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (031.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0031]
George B. McClellan
Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917), photographer. George Brinton McClellan, ca. 1862. Hand-colored salted paper print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (060.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33064]
Fort Donelson
“The Fort Donelson Fortifications.” Newspaper map, n.d. George Brinton McClellan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (038.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0038]
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