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Embalming building near Fredericksburg, where some bodies were prepared for sending home

Publisher: Taylor, John C.
Subjects: Business Enterprises, Virginia, Fredericksburg, Barns, Albumen Prints
Collection: United States Library of Congress: Stereoviews
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Rebel artillery soldiers, killed in the trenches of "Fort Hell," at the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865 The one in the foreground has U.S. belts on, probably taken from a Union soldier prisoner, his uniform is grey cloth trimmed with red. This view was taken the morning after the fight.

Publisher: Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries
Subjects: Confederate States Of America, Army, People, Virginia, Petersburg, African Americans, Soldiers, Confederate, Dead People, United States, History, Civil War, Casualties, Staged Photographs
Collection: United States Library of Congress: Stereoviews
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These died, that our Nation might live. We were driven from this field (Wilderness) before we could gather our wounded or bury our dead. This is the way we found the field covered when we returned some months later

Publisher: Reekie, John
Subjects: Skeletons, Battlefields, Virginia, Cold Harbor, War Casualties, Gaines' Mill, Battle Of, Va., United States, History, Civil War, Casualties, Albumen Prints
Collection: United States Library of Congress: Stereoviews
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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

Publisher: Taylor, John C.
Subjects: War Casualties, Virginia, Fredericksburg, Soldiers, United States, History, Civil War, Casualties, Union, Military Personnel, Albumen Prints
Collection: United States Library of Congress: Stereoviews