Thursday, August 18, 2011

Timothy H. O'Sullivan: A Harvest of Death (Civil War, 1862-1865)



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Large group of slaves standing in front of buildings on J. J. Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862 (Library of Congress)

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Five generations on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862
(Library of Congress)

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Plantation, Port Royal Island, South Carolina. Slaves quarters, April 1862 (Library of Congress)

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Fort Pulaski, Georgia. The breach, 1862 (Library of Congress)

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View from across the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg, Virginia, February 1863
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Capt. George A. Custer and Gen. Alfred Pleasonton on horseback, Falmouth, Virginia, April 1863 (Library of Congress)

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Confederate prisoners at Fairfax Court House, June 1863
(National Archives and Records Administration)



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Trossell's House, Battle-Field of Gettysburg, July 1863:
published in Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Washington, D.C., 1865 (Library of Congress)

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Battle-field of Gettysburg -- Dead Confederate sharpshooter [identified in attached clipping as Andrew Johnston Hoge] at foot of Little Round Top [i.e., Devil's Den], July 1863: published in Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Washington, D.C., 1865 (Library of Congress)

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. "Slaughter pen" on left wing, at foot of [Little] Round Top, July 1863
: published in Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Washington, D.C., 1865 (Library of Congress)



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A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, July 1863:
published in Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Washington, D.C.,1865 (Library of Congress)



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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Bodies of Confederate soldiers killed on 1 July 1863, near the McPherson woods
(Library of Congress)



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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Confederate dead gathered for burial at the southwestern edge of the Rose woods, 5 July 1863
(Library of Congress)

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American Civil War. The "Pulpit" after capture, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, January 1865 (U.S. Army)

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Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Interior view. English 8-inch Armstrong gun, 1865
(Library of Congress)

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Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Federal soldiers at the courthouse, April 1865
(Library of Congress)



Photos by Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840-1882)