List of Plates

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Section One

  1. Lord Lyons, British Ambassador in Washington (U.S. National Archives)

  2. The British legation (Washington, D.C., Public Library)

  3. The partially completed Capitol, Washington (U.S. National Archives)

  4. President Lincoln’s inauguration (Library of Congress)

  5. The U.S. Senate (U.S. Senate Collection)

  6. President Abraham Lincoln (Library of Congress)

  7. William Seward (U.S. National Archives)

  8. The Royal Exchange, London (Science and Society Picture Library)

  9. Cambridge House, home of Lord Palmerston (English Heritage)

10. The chamber of the House of Commons, 1870 (Hulton Getty)

11. Lord John Russell (National Portrait Gallery, London)

12. Lord Palmerston (The Broadlands Archive, Hartley Library, University of Southampton)

13. Charles Sumner (Library of Congress)

14. Frederick Douglass (Collection of the New-York Historical Society)

15. Gideon Welles (U.S. National Archives)

16. Salmon P. Chase (Library of Congress)

17. General George McClellan (U.S. National Archives)

18. The 69th New York Irish Regiment (Library of Congress)

19. General William Sherman (U.S. National Archives)

20. William Howard Russell (Hulton Getty)

21. Edward Dicey (picturehistory.com)

22. Francis Lawley (British Library)

23. Frank Vizetelly (Library of Congress)

24. President Jefferson Davis (U.S. National Archives)

25. President Davis’s inauguration (Boston Athenaeum)

26. The Confederate White House, Richmond (Library of Congress)

27. Richmond in 1862 (U.S. National Archives)

28. General Robert E. Lee (Library of Congress)

29. General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson (U.S. National Archives)

30. Lee’s home at Arlington, Virginia (U.S. National Archives)

31. General Josiah Gorgas (Smithsonian Institute)

32. Judah P. Benjamin (U.S. National Archives)

33. Stephen Mallory (U.S. National Archives)

34. James and Irvine Bulloch (Mr. Henry Skinner)

35. Henry Hotze (courtesy of the Museum of Mobile)

36. James M. Mason (U.S. National Archives)

37. John Slidell (Library of Congress)

38. The shipyard of the Laird brothers, Liverpool (Moorfields Photographic, Liverpool)

39. Federal troops marching through New Orleans (Leonard V. Huber, New Orleans: A Pictorial History, Penguin, 1991)

40. Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (Library of Congress)

41. Henry Adams (Massachusetts Historical Society)

42. Charles Francis Adams (Boston Athenaeum)

43. Henry Fielden (Collection of the South Carolina Historical Society)

44. Francis Dawson (Francis Warrington Dawson papers, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library)

Section Two

45. A colored regiment (Library of Congress)

46. “Contraband of war” (Library of Congress)

47. A slave auction house in Atlanta, Georgia (Library of Congress)

48. The Rohrbach Bridge, Antietam (U.S. National Archives)

49. The dead after Antietam (Library of Congress)

50. Lincoln and McClellan after Antietam (Library of Congress)

51. General Ambrose Burnside (Library of Congress)

52. Fredericksburg (Library of Congress)

53. Marye’s Heights, Fredericksburg (U.S. National Archives)

54. Admiral Raphael Semmes aboard CSS Alabama (U.S. Naval Historical Center)

55. Commander Matthew Maury (Library of Congress)

56. Lieutenant James Morgan (James Morris Morgan, Recollections of a Rebel Reefer, Houghton Mifflin, 1917)

57. Colonel John F. De Courcy (descendants of Maj. Milton Mills, 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry)

58. Colonel Sir Percy Wyndham (Library of Congress)

59. Dr. Charles Culverwell (from the private collection of Sir George Newnes)

60. Battle of Gettysburg (Library of Congress)

61. Little Round Top, Gettysburg (Library of Congress)

62. Diplomatic expedition to Trenton Falls (U.S. National Archives)

63. Rose Greenhow and her daughter (Library of Congress)

64. Belle Boyd (Library of Congress)

65. General Braxton Bragg (Library of Congress)

66. Civilians hunting for souvenirs after Chattanooga (Dubose Collection)

67. Jacob Thompson (Library of Congress)

68. Clement C. Clay (Library of Congress)

69. Confederate plotters at Niagara Falls (William A. Tidwell, Come Retribution, Barnes & Noble / University Press of Mississippi, 1988)

70. Mounted cannon (U.S. National Archives)

71. Field artillery (Library of Congress)

72. A Federal observation balloon (Library of Congress)

73. General Ulysses S. Grant and his staff (Library of Congress)

74. The aftermath of Cold Harbor (Library of Congress)

75. CSS Alabama (U.S. National Archives)

76. CSS Stonewall (Library of Congress)

77. USS Kearsarge (U.S. National Archives)

78. Fort Sedgwick (Library of Congress)

79. The trenches at Petersburg (U.S. National Archives)

80. Charleston at the end of the war (U.S. National Archives)

81. Richmond after its fall (U.S. National Archives)

82. The victory parade of the Union Army, May 24, 1865 (Library of Congress)

83. The Capitol on May 24, 1865 (Library of Congress)

84. The Lincoln Memorial, Edinburgh (copyright © The Scotsman Publications Ltd. Licensor: www.scram.ac.uk)

85. The British Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Richmond (Library of Congress)