Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture
Instructions
The layout design for these subpages is at Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/Layout.
- Add a new Selected picture to the next available subpage.
- The caption for all selected pictures should be approximately 2 lines, for appropriate formatting in the portal main page.
- This portal uses a dynamic queue, and this Selected picture section is rotated weekly. After display, the selection is archived here.
Selected picture list
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Thure de Thulstrup's Battle of Gettysburg, showing Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg
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
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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George Armstrong Custer, a Union major general (brevet) and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars
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An illustration for Harper's Weekly of the burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina during the Carolinas Campaign
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Thure de Thulstrup's Battle of Spottsylvania, depicting the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture/7
George Atzerodt, one of the conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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
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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The 1864 ticket of the National Union Party, a renaming of the Republican Party designed to attract support from pro-war Northern Democrats
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
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
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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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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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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David Dixon Porter, who served as an admiral for the Union and later as Superintendent of the US Naval Academy
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A photograph of damage done to Richmond, Virginia during the Confederate Army's retreat from the city in 1865
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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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A battery of 13-inch mortars employed by the Union army during the Siege of Yorktown in 1862
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Members of the United States Colored Troops at Dutch Gap, Virginia
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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.
