Back to Collections

Collection: Civil War Buildings

94 photos

Perspective view of Union Arch, Washington Aqueduct, built by Gen. M.C. Meigs. Span of 220 feet

View down the Potomac from Union Arch

Medical supply ships "Connecticut" and "Planter" docked at a wharf on the Appomattox River

Lower wharf, Belle Plain, built by U.S.M.R.R. Construction Corps

Sailors on Russian frigate "Osliaba," harbor of Alexandria, Va.

U.S. Military Academy cadets

Barracks of Ft. Carroll, Wash., D.C.

Fort Carroll, Wash., D.C.

Ft. Carroll, Wash., D.C.

Rebel gun in front of "Fort Hell," April 1865

Ft. Brady, Interior

Magazine wharf, City Point; January 1865

Dock on the south side of the James River, opposite Richmond, Va.

Potomac Creek Bridge, Aquia Creek & Fredericksburgh Railroad, perspective view, April 12, 1863

Bridge built by Engineer Corps, James River

Hospitals, Army of the Potomac, January 1865

Confederate hospital near Richmond, Va., April 1865

Bird's-eye view of Sickel Hospital, Alexandria, Va.

Monitor off Akin's Landing, November 1864

Landing where they exchange prisoners, James River, April 1865

Looking down James River from Dutch Gap, February 1865

Double turreted ironclad monitor "Onandaga," James River

African American workers standing on railroad tracks in front of a storage facility, possibly at Giesboro cavalry depot

Union soldiers in front of a house