United States. Army--History; Federal aid to law enforcement agencies--United States; Riots--United States
The function of the army of the United States is to protect the country against all enemies foreign and domestic. Everyone is cognizant of the accomplishments of the American forces against its foreign enemies; but there is another work, of equal...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of Orlando M. Poe, a United States Army officer (brevet brigadier general) and engineer in the United States Civil War. After helping General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea, he was responsible for much of the early lighthouse...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Confederate; Generals--Confederate States of America; Generals; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Portrait of Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807-1891). When Johnston's native state of Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, Johnston resigned his commission as a brigadier general in the regular army, the highest-ranking U.S. Army officer to do so....
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Portrait of James Harrison Wilson (1837-1925), a railroad executive, an author, a United States Army topographic engineer, and a Union Army major general in the United States Civil War.
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of Horatio Gouverneur Wright (1820-1899), an engineer and major general in the Union Army during the United States Civil War. After the war, he was involved in a number of engineering projects, including the Brooklyn Bridge and the...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of Major General George B. McClellan (1826-1885), who organized the Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army in the United States Civil War. He utilized his experience as chief engineer and vice...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of Union Army Major General George G. Meade (1815-1872), a career United States Army officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction, including several lighthouses. He is best known for defeating Confederate General Robert E....
Maps; Forts & fortifications; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Two-page spread, featuring three maps. Published by the United States Department of War in 1895 as Plate 102 of Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies 1861-1865. Map 1 is "Defenses of Munfordville, Ky....
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of John Gross Barnard (1815-1882), a Union brigadier general and career engineering officer in the United States Civil War. He became Chief Engineer of the Army of the Potomac, 1861 to 1862, Chief Engineer of the Department of Washington...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of Joseph King Fenno Mansfield (1803-1862), a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, and a Union major general in the United States Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of John Gross Barnard (1815-1882), a Union brigadier general and career engineering officer in the United States Civil War. He became Chief Engineer of the Army of the Potomac, 1861 to 1862, Chief Engineer of the Department of Washington...
United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America. Army; Soldiers--Kentucky--Psychology--History--19th century; Soldiers--Kentucky--Attitudes--History--19th century
Beginning with Bell Irvin Wiley's 1943 The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy, historians have produced many works describing the motivations for soldiers to enlist and serve during the Civil War. However, because they often...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
88 images and four manuscripts relating to the U.S. military, with a particular focus on the Civil War era, collected by West Point alumnus, engineer, and Civil War veteran Orlando Metcalfe Poe (1832-1895).
Immigrants--Kentucky--Louisville; Louisville--History; Italians--United States--History--20th century; St. James Catholic School (Louisville, Ky.); St. Xavier High School (Louisville, Ky.); Catholics; Catholics--Education; University of Notre Dame;...
Congressman Romano L. (Ron) Mazzoli, interviewed by Kevin Collins on May 14, 2010 as part of the Romano L. Mazzoli oral history project. This is the first of 17 interviews conducted with the Congressman, who represented the Third District of...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Full-length portrait of John Charles Frémont (1813-1890), an explorer, politician, and Major General in the Civil War. He was the third Military Governor of California and a senator for California before the Civil War and the fifth Territorial...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Profile portrait of John Charles Frémont (1813-1890), an explorer, politician, and Major General in the Civil War. He was the third Military Governor of California and a senator for California before the Civil War and the fifth Territorial...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of George Webb Morell (1815-1883), a civil engineer, lawyer, farmer, and a Union general in the United States Civil War. At the start of the war he was appointed colonel and then promoted to brigadier general. His support of his corps...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of John Newton (1823-1895), a career engineer officer in the United States Army, a Union brigadier general in the United States Civil War, and Chief of the Corps of Engineers.
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of Henry Washington Benham (1813-1884), a Union general in the United States Civil War. He was appointed engineer of the Department of the Ohio in 1861 and later that same year he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers.
Battlefields; Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Stereograph view of Orville Elias Babcock (1835-1884) sitting on a stump and Orlando M. Poe (1832-1895) standing. The men are facing each other. In the background are rolling hills, apparently ravaged and covered with tree stumps. Inscribed on...
