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Brother Artists: Civil War Photographers and Sketch Artists in 1862

'Two railroad construction workers hammer track as third construction worker watches' by Andrew J. Russell; Library of Congress, LOT 9209, no. 66 [P&P] 'Ruins at Manassas Junction' by Alexander Gardner; Illustration in Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War; Library of Congress, E468.7 .G2, v. 1, no. 9 (Case Y) [P&P] 'Bodies of Confederate dead gathered for burial' by Alexander Gardner; Library of Congress, LC-B811- 557 [P&P] LOT 4168 (corresponding print) 'Harpers Ferry and Maryland Heights' Mathew Brady Collection; Historic Photo Collection, Harpers Ferry NHP 'Fredericksburg from the river. Showing Confederate troops and bridge. (taken at a distance of one mile.)' National Archives; ARC Identifier 524858 Item from Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985 'The ruse of the whistles - the guarded track, Corinth, Mississippi, 1862' Published in The Photographic history of the Civil War, New York:Review of Reviews Co., 1911, v. 2. Two years of grim war, p. [138-39]; Library of Congress, E468.7 .M64 1911 [P&P] 'Eastern view of round house and depot, Orange & Alexandria Railroad' by Andrew J. Russell; Library of Congress, LOT 11486-C, no. 4 [P&P]
'Report of Services Rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army, in North Carolina in the Spring of 1862 After the Battle of New Bern' by Vincent Colyer; published 1864 'Intersection of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad with the Manassas Gap Railroad' Harper's Weekly, March 29, 1862 'Scenes on the Battlefield of Antietam - From Photographs by Mr. M. B. Brady' Harper's Weekly, October 18,1862 'General View of Harper's Ferry and the Maryland Heights - Photographed by Brady' Harper's Weekly, October 4,1862 'Exchanging Salutations with the Enemy' Harper's Weekly, December 13,1862 'Railroad Junction near Corinth' Harper's Weekly, June 21,1862 'The Army of the Potomac - The Great Depot of Supplies on the Railroad' Harper's Weekly, December 12, 1863 click map Railroads and the Making of Modern America

African American Labor

Ruins at Manassas Junction

Dead at Antietam

Harpers Ferry and Maryland Heights

Bridge and troops at Fredericksburg

Corinth Depot

Alexandria Roundhouse