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11th History: Civil War Historical Fiction: People

Enslaved People

William Jackson: May 1862 (Fredericksburg, VA)

 

Gordon: April 2, 1863 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

"Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer. The very words of poor [Gordon], taken as he sat for his picture." 

 

Research Martha Ann Dixon: June 1863 (Beaufort, North Carolina)

Northern Teacher

 

 

Fanny M. Jackson: September 1863 (Oberlin, OH)

Confederate Surgeon

Research John Marshall Alexander, Confederate Surgeon (33rd Tennessee Infantry): December 1862 (Murfreesboro TN, Field Hospital)

 

Confederate Soldier

William H. S. Burgwyn, age 16 (confederate soldier in the 35th North Carolina Regiment): September 1862 (Sharpsburg, MD)

Union Photographer

George N. Barnard:  September, 1864 (Atlanta, Georgia)

Barnard's photographic equipment, southeast of Atlanta Photographed by George N. Barnard.

Northern Artist

Alfred R. Waud: July, 1863 (Gettysburg, Pa.)

Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper's Weekly, sketching on battlefield.

Union Naval Officer

 

Rear Admiral David D. Porter: Research April 1862 (Hampton Roads, VA)

Union Officer

Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt (3rd from left): September 1864 (Winchester, VA)

Major General Philip Sheridan and his generals in front of Sheridan's tent

Northern Factory Worker

Research Annie Bache, Washington Arsenal worker: May, 1864 (Washington D.C.)

"WOMEN WORKED IN A WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, ARSENAL ASSEMBLING CARTIDGES. THE MUNITIONS INDUSTRY COULD AND DID PROVE DANGEROUS TO THOSE WORKERS CAUGHT IN INFREQUENT BUT DEADLY FACTORY EXPLOSIONS. (HARPER'S WEEKLY)"

Union Surgeon

Charles K. Irwin, brigade surgeon of the Third Regiment, Excelsior Brigade, 72nd New York Volunteers: May 1864 (Spotsylvania, VA)

Irwin sitting outside his tent with his hospital steward.

Steamboat Worker

Alfred Gradine (wearing hat) May 1862 (Charleston SC)

Southern Woman

Janie Smith: April, 1865 (Fayetteville, North Carolina)

 

Native American Sharpshooter

Sergeant Thomas “Ne-o-de-geshik” Ke Chittigo (Chippewa) [Standing, to the right of the tree]: May 1864 (Spotsylvania, VA)

 

Northern Nurse

Research Adelaide Smith: August 1864 (City Point, VA)

Nurses and officers of the U.S. Sanitary Commission

Union Soldiers

John C. Babcock (2nd from left): February 1864 (Brandy Station, VA)

Col. George H. Sharpe, John C. Babcock, unidentified, and Lt. Col. John McEntee, Secret Service officers at Army of the Potomac Headquarters

 

Hubbard Pryor, 44th U.S. Colored Infantry: October 1864 (Dalton, GA)

 

Union Captain Almon Schellenger, 95th Illinois Volunteers, June 1863 (Warren County, Mississippi)

Union Reporters

 

 Research Nathaniel Paige: September, 1862 (Antietam, MD)

 A New York Herald Tribune wagon and reporters in the field

Union African American Army Cook

Edward: Research November, 1864 (City Point, VA)

African American army cook at work. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

 

Confederate Female Spy

Research Mary Jane Green: May 1862 (Weston, Lewis County, VA (later West VA)) 

Freedwoman

Research Mary Ann Addison: October 1862 (Washington, D.C.)