Portal:American Civil War/Selected Picture - Civil War Pictures

Instructions

The layout design for these subpages is at Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/Layout.

1. Add a new Selected picture to the next available subpage.
2. The caption for all selected pictures should be approximately 2 lines, for appropriate formatting in the portal main page.
3. This portal uses a dynamic queue, and this Selected picture section is rotated weekly. After display, the selection is archived here.

Selected picture list

Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/1

Thure de Thulstrup's Battle of Gettysburg, showing Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/2

Kurz and Allison's Assault on Fort Sanders, which depicts the Battle of Fort Sanders, a decisive engagement of the Knoxville Campaign

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/3

Ambrose Burnside, a Union Army general who would go on to serve as Governor of Rhode Island and as a United States Senator representing the state

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/4

George Armstrong Custer, a Union major general (brevet) and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/5

An illustration for Harper's Weekly of the burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina during the Carolinas Campaign

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/6

Thure de Thulstrup's Battle of Spottsylvania, depicting the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/7

George Atzerodt, one of the conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/8

A photograph of Union general Charles Pomeroy Stone, reportedly the first volunteer to enter the Union Army, and his daughter

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/9

An illustration of Andersonville Prison, a Civil War prisoner-of-war camp, and is now the Andersonville National Historic Site

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/10

The 1864 ticket of the National Union Party, a renaming of the Republican Party designed to attract support from pro-war Northern Democrats

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/11

An illustration of the death of Union general John F. Reynolds while overseeing the deployment of the Iron Brigade during the Battle of Gettysburg

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/12

A portrait of Abner Doubleday, a Union general that at one time was incorrectly credited as the inventor of baseball

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/13

An illustration of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, a battle in the Atlanta Campaign

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/14

A Harper's Weekly illustration of the capture and burning of Columbia, South Carolina, an important political and supply center for the Confederate States Army

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/15

A photograph of Confederate soldiers killed in the Second Battle of Fredericksburg, which was in the eastern portion of the Battle of Chancellorsville

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/16

David Dixon Porter, who served as an admiral for the Union and later as Superintendent of the US Naval Academy

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/17

A photograph of damage done to Richmond, Virginia during the Confederate Army's retreat from the city in 1865

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/18

Grant from West Point to Appomattox, an 1885 engraving presumably intended to commemorate Union general Ulysses S. Grant's achievements after his death

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/19

A battery of 13-inch mortars employed by the Union army during the Siege of Yorktown in 1862

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/20

Members of the United States Colored Troops at Dutch Gap, Virginia

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/21

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/22

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/23

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Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/24

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Nominations

Adding pictures

• Feel free to add American Civil War pictures to the above list.
• You can also ask for help at Portal talk:American Civil War.

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