Library of Congress
Virginia Civil War Photographs
2,588 photographs in this state - page 2 of 44
![[Hampton, Va. Brick chimneys, etc., of burned houses]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/00400/00442_150px.jpg#h=62&w=150)
![[Harper's Ferry, W. Va. View of town; railroad bridge in ruins]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/04100/04106_150px.jpg#h=121&w=150)
![[Portrait of Maj. Edmonds (of Virginia), C.S.A.]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwp/4a40000/4a40800/4a40863_150px.jpg#h=150&w=93)
![[Hampton, Va. Chesapeake Hospital and grounds]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/00300/00386_150px.jpg#h=76&w=150)
![[Portrait of Pvt. William Jackson Eskew, 13th Virginia Infantry, C.S.A.]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwp/4a40000/4a40800/4a40879_150px.jpg#h=150&w=125)
![[James River, Va. U.S.S. monitor Canonicus taking on coal from a schooner]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01700/01771_150px.jpg#h=150&w=150)
![[Dutch Gap, Va., vicinity. Sling for transporting big guns]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01300/01361_150px.jpg#h=150&w=147)
![[Cold Harbor, Va. Photographer's wagon and tent]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01700/01729_150px.jpg#h=150&w=149)
![[Fort Davis, Petersburg, Virginia]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpbh/03300/03344_150px.jpg#h=122&w=150)
![[Alexandria, Va. Magazine in Battery Rodgers]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01300/01346_150px.jpg#h=150&w=140)
![[James River, Va. Sunken Confederate ships Virginia (ram) and Jamestown]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/02800/02870_150px.jpg#h=150&w=149)
![[James River, Va. Point where Army of the Potomac crossed in June 1864 (Wyanoke Wharf?)]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/00400/00475_150px.jpg#h=64&w=150)
![[White House Landing, Va., vicinity. St. Peter's Church, with Federal soldiers]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01400/01478_150px.jpg#h=149&w=150)
![[Rocketts, Richmond, VA. Confederate brass mountain howitzers]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/02400/02494_150px.jpg#h=150&w=145)
![[James River, Va. Butler's dredge-boat, sunk by a Confederate shell on Thanksgiving Day, 1864]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01900/01923_150px.jpg#h=150&w=150)
![[Alexandria, Va. Soldiers' Cemetery]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/03900/03928_150px.jpg#h=123&w=150)
![[Portrait of Pvt. Hite Bird, Virginia Regiment, C.S.A.]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwp/4a40000/4a40800/4a40881_150px.jpg#h=150&w=126)
![[Appomattox River, Va. U.S.S. transport Washington Irving]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/02000/02063_150px.jpg#h=150&w=150)
![[Yorktown, Va. Thomas Nelson house (right), used as a hospital; in 1781 used as a headquarters by Lord Cornwallis]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01500/01542_150px.jpg#h=148&w=150)
![[Bull Run, Va. View of the battlefield]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01300/01314_150px.jpg#h=129&w=150)
![[Rocketts, Richmond, VA. Battered smokestack from C.S.S. ironclad ram Virginia No. 2]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/02400/02491_150px.jpg#h=147&w=150)
![[Fort Burnham, Va. Encampment and earthworks]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01800/01824_150px.jpg#h=149&w=150)
![[James River, Va. Work party and mortars at "Butler's Crow's Nest"]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01800/01816_150px.jpg#h=150&w=150)
![[City Point, Va. Another locomotive at the same point]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01800/01853_150px.jpg#h=150&w=149)
![Gen. W.H. French. Bealton [i.e., Bealeton], Va. Oct. 1863](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/04400/04403_150px.jpg#h=150&w=121)
![[Yorktown, Va. Augustine Moore house, in which Lord Cornwallis signed the capitulation of 1781]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/01000/01040_150px.jpg#h=121&w=150)
![[Harper's Ferry, W. Va. View of the town and railroad bridge]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/03700/03739_150px.jpg#h=121&w=150)
![[Fredericksburg, Va. View of town from Tyler's Battery]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/00300/00308_150px.jpg#h=64&w=150)
![[Alexandria, Va. Steam frigate Pensacola]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cwpb/00700/00715_150px.jpg#h=150&w=134)
![[Brigadier General John A. Rawlins, left, Lieutenant General U.S. Grant, center, and Lieutenant Colonel Theodore S. Bowers at City Point, Virginia]](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/ppmsca/34000/34091_150px.jpg#h=102&w=150)
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