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![]() | Battle of Antietam 1887 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]() One of the bloodiest battles in American history. The battle fought in Maryland between September 16-18, 1862 produced over 23,000 casualties, more than the War of 1812, Mexican and Spanish-American War combined. | Unrated | igrkio |
![]() | Battle of Chattanooga c. 1880 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | ![]() The Chattanooga Campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in October and November 1863, during the American Civil War. Following the defeat of Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans's Union Army of the Cumberland at the Battle of Chickamauga in September, the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg besieged Rosecrans and his men by... | Unrated | igrkio |
![]() | Battle of Shiloh c. 1888 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | ![]() The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union army under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had moved via the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and was encamped principally at Pittsburg Landing on the west... | Unrated | igrkio |
![]() | Battle of Spottsylvania 1887 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | ![]() The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania (or the 19th century spelling Spottsylvania), was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the bloody but inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, Grant's army disengaged from... | Unrated | igrkio |
![]() | Building pontoons c. 1887 May 16 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | ![]() The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. The Union army's futile frontal assaults on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on... | Unrated | igrkio |
![]() | Carrying off the ivory 1888 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | ![]() The fictional adventurer Allan Quatermain (center) follows his men carrying a large quantity of ivory, in the H. Rider Haggard novel Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand (1888). | Unrated | igrkio |
![]() | Deer Hunt on Belle Mead Farm, Near Nashville, Tennessee. A 1887 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Unrated | igrkio | |
![]() | General William Tecumseh Sherman 1888 | ![]() William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched... | Unrated | igrkio |
![]() | Grant from West Point to Appomattox 1885 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | ![]() Ulysses Grant, half-length portrait, facing left; surrounded by nine scenes of his career from West Point graduation in 1843 to Lee's surrender in 1865, including artillery crew in the Tower of Chapultepec, Mexico, 1847; drilling Volunteers, 1861; Fort Donelson, 1862; Shiloh, 1862; Siege of Vicksburg, 1863; Chattanooga, 1863; appointment by Lincoln... | Unrated | igrkio |
![]() | Hancock at Pickett's Charge c. 1887 May 16 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous |
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