Preparing the mess

Christian Commission, at White House, Va.

Contraband foreground

Picket station near Atlanta, Ga.

Comrades will all remember how we made a rush for the old well to fill our canteens, when on the march. This is the way it was

Troops drawn up in Hollow Square to witness an execution

A battery of "Quaker Guns"

"Hard Tack"

"Hard Tack"

Non-commissioned Officers' Mess, Co. "D", 93d New York Infantry

Army Blacksmith and Forge, Antietam, Sept., 1862

Soldiers' winter quarters, Army of the Potomac. Inside the first line of fortifications, near City Point, Va.

A battery of "Quaker Guns"

Camp life, Army of the Potomac Taking it easy.

Camp life

[Union stragglers at makeshift postwar camp]

Headquarters 10th Army Corps, Hatchies Run, Va.

Federal Camp at Johnsonville, Tenn.

Camp in Monument Garden, Chattanooga

Encampment at Cumberland Landing, Va.

Encampment at Cumberland Landing, Va.

Execution of a deserter, Alexandria, Va.

Burial of the Union dead at Fredericksburg, December 15, 1862 (i.e. May 19 or 20, 1864. Working within the Confederate lines under a flag of truce. Our army had retreated, leaving our dead on the field

Soldiers and part of a battery, on the battlefield of Bull Run

Bomb-proof quarters of Major Strong, at Dutch Gap, Va., July, 1864

Rebel fortifications, Atlanta, Ga.

Fort McAllister, on the Ogechee (i.e. Ogeechee) River, Ga.

Interior of the Union Fort Sedgwick, called by the rebel soldiers "Fort Hell," showing Union soldiers on the breastworks

Making coffee. On the lines before Petersburg, Va., 1864

The Thirteen-Inch Mortar "Dictator"