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Indiana Civil War Visual Collection, 1861–1913, N.D Collection # P 0455 INDIANA CIVIL WAR VISUAL COLLECTION, 1861–1913, N.D. Collection Information 1 Historical Sketch 2 Scope and Content Note 3 Series Contents 4 Processed by Dorothy A. Nicholson 6 March 2006 Revised July 2010, July 2017 Manuscript and Visual Collections Department William Henry Smith Memorial Library Indiana Historical Society 450 West Ohio Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269 www.indianahistory.org COLLECTION INFORMATION VOLUME OF 1 postcard box, 2 stereograph boxes, 1 photograph box, COLLECTION: 1 OVA photograph box, 2 OVB photograph boxes, 7 OVA graphic boxes, 1 OVB graphic box, 3 OVC graphic boxes, 9 oversize folders, 2 framed items 3 Panoramic photographs COLLECTION 1861–1913 DATES: PROVENANCE: Various accessions RESTRICTIONS: None COPYRIGHT: The Indiana Historical Society does not own copyright on the Adolph G. Metzner prints. REPRODUCTION Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection RIGHTS: must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society. ALTERNATE Indiana Historical Society Digital Images FORMATS: RELATED Civil War Generals (P0132), HOLDINGS: Civil War Cartes de Visite (P0310), Civil War Cased Images (P0311) ACCESSION 0000.0103, .0436, .0455, .0495, .0496, .0497, .0498, .0499, NUMBER: .0501, .0502, .0503, .0504, .0507, .0508, .0509, .0510, .0523, .0524, .0526, .0527, .0528, .0540, .0541, .1083; 1940.1012, 1941.1110, 1942.0507, 1949.0208, 1949.0715, 1950.0625, 1951.0512, 1952.0122, 1952.1219, 1955.1105, 1957.0509, 1961.0001, 1961.0506, 1962.0409, 1962.0514, 1963.1107, 1965.0024, 1965.0319, 1965.0709, 1966.0038, 1966.0039, 1966.0040, 1973.0712, 1974.0412, 1976.0312, 1979.0433v0023, 1982.1016, 1984.1014, 1985.0332, 1986.0206, 1991.0236, 1991.0280, 1992.0026, 1996.0942X, 1998.1127, 1999.0680, 2000.1262X, 2001.0071, 2002.0105, 2002.0349, 2003.0294, 2005.0026, 2005.0027, 2005.0120, 2006.0045, 2006.0358, 2006.0359, 2006.0369, 2006.0379, 2007.0128, 2007.0285, 2008.0215, 2008.0336, 2010.0085, 2012.0339, 2013.0348v0001, 2015.0108, 2015.0109, 2016.0201 NOTES: This is an artificial collection. Additions are expected. Indiana Historical Society Indiana Civil War Visual Collection Page 1 HISTORICAL SKETCH The Civil War began on 12 April 1861 when Confederate forces fired on the Union garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. President Lincoln called for volunteers on the 15th of April and the next day Indiana’s Governor Morton responded when he issued his call for Indiana volunteers to defend the nation. In all, over 208,000 men from Indiana served during the war. They made up 141 regiments of infantry, 16 regiments of cavalry, and 26 batteries of artillery. The Indiana troops fought in seventeen states with most of the troops serving in the western theater of operations. By the end of the war in April 1865 more than 24,000 Indiana soldiers had been killed or were dead from disease. Sources: Bodenhamer, David G. Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Reference Room Collection: F534.I55 E4 1994 Indiana Civil War Centennial Commission. A chronology of Indiana in the Civil War, 1861-1865. Reference Room Collection: E506 .I394 1965 Indiana Historical Society Indiana Civil War Visual Collection Page 2 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE Series 1: Newspaper Illustrations, is arranged chronologically with the captions in quotation marks “ ” and the name of each publication in italics. It contains illustrations and some accompanying articles concerning Indiana regiments from the following weekly newspapers, Harper’s Weekly, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, and The National Review. One illustration from another publication entitled, Pictorial History of the War of 1861, is also included as it is in newspaper format. Some publications are not identified. Series 2: Stereographs are arranged by subject and the descriptive titles from the stereographs are listed. Series 3: Postcards were produced during the 20th century and show historic Civil War sites and people, these are arranged by state. Series 4: Political Ephemera has one political cartoon, printed material on Grant, and some printed 1864 and 1868 election ephemera. Series 5: Land Battles and Engagements contains mostly illustrations from unidentified books, some are dated, these are arranged by date and those lacking dates are alphabetical by the title on the print. Series 6: Naval Battles and Engagements are mostly illustrations from unidentified books, some are dated, they are arranged by date and those lacking dates are alphabetical by the title. Series 7: Illustrations and Scenic Views contain views of the Cumberland Gap, Shenandoah Valley, and Fredericksburg, Va. at the time of the Civil War. Series 8: Maps from Books illustrations, mostly battlefields taken from books. Series 9: African Americans a recruitment poster and illustrations from books. Series 10: Union Political Leaders, the political leaders from the northern states. Series 11: Union Military Leaders Army and Navy officers from the northern states. Series 12: Confederate Leaders both political and military leaders from the southern states. Series 13: Indiana Regiments and Companies is made up of individual and group photographs, drawings, and printed materials, organized regiment or company numbers. Series 14: G.A.R. and Anniversaries is comprised of veterans, and post war activities. Indiana Historical Society Indiana Civil War Visual Collection Page 3 SERIES CONTENTS Series 1: Newspaper Illustrations: 1861–1876, n.d. CONTENTS CONTAINER “The Eleventh Indiana Volunteers swearing to OVC Graphics: remember Buena Vista, at Indianapolis, May, 1861,” Box 1, Folder 1 Harper’s Weekly, 22 June 1861. [2 color lithographs] “The Eleventh Indiana Volunteers swearing to OVC Graphics: remember Buena Vista, at Indianapolis, May, 1861,” Box 1, Folder 2 Harper’s Weekly, 22 June 1861. “The Day After the Battle of Romney–The Eleventh OVB Graphics: Indiana Zouaves, ...” “The Indiana Zouaves” Box 1, Folder 10 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, June 29, 1861, pages 101–102 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 6 July 1861, OVC Graphics: pages 113-122, 127-128 Box 1, Folder 3 “Bivouac of the Eleventh Indiana Volunteer Regiment OVC Graphics: (Zouaves), Colonel Lewis Wallace Commanding, at Box 1, Folder 4 Cumberland, Md.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 6 July 1861, p. 124 “The Eleventh Indiana Volunteer Regiment (Zouaves), OVC Graphics: Colonel Lewis Wallace commanding, under arms, at Box 1, Folder 5 night, awaiting the enemy, at Cumberland, MD.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 6 July 1861, p. 125 “The Eleventh Indiana Regiment of Zouaves, Colonel OVC Graphics: L. Wallace,” Box 1, Folder 6 Harper’s Weekly, 20 July 1861, p. 452 [3 copies] Box 1, Folder 7 Indiana Historical Society Indiana Civil War Visual Collection Page 4 “Battle of Rich Mountain, … The Thirteenth Indiana OVC Graphics: Regiment Charging down the pike in the face of a Box 1, Folder 8 large body of Rebel troops… ,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 27 July 1861, p. 161 “The graves of the Indiana Volunteers who fell at the OVC Graphics: Battle of Rich Mountain, Western Virginia,” n.d. Box 1, Folder 9 “Scouting Party of the Ninth Indiana Volunteers, ... OVB Graphics: “The Tigers of the Bloody Ninth.” Box 1, Folder 11 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, August 3, 1861, p. 186 “Colonel Lewis Wallace, of the Eleventh Indiana OVC Graphics: Volunteers, Zouave Regiment, and his staff…,” Box 1, Folder 10 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 10 August 1861, p. 201; The Civil War in the United States, p. 414 [2 versions of the same illustration, color & b&w] “Arrival of the Twenty-Second Indiana Volunteers, OVC Graphics: Colonel J.C. Davis, at St. Louis, Missouri,” Box 1, Folder 11 Harper’s Weekly, 14 Sept. 1861, p. 582 “The U.S. Steamer Monticello shelling the Rebel OVC Graphics: troops … on their return from an unsuccessful attempt Box 1, Folder 12 to cut off the retreat of the 20th Indiana Regiment,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 2 Nov. 1861, pp. 376–377 “The loyal inhabitants of Hatteras Island, … overtaken OVC Graphics: by the 20th Indiana Regiment, while retreating to Fort Box 1, Folder 13 Hatteras for protection, October 4,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 2 Nov. 1861, p. 380 Indiana Historical Society Indiana Civil War Visual Collection Page 5 “Camp Morton, near Indianapolis, Indiana.” OVC Graphics: Harper’s Weekly, 13 Sept. 1862, p. 588 Box 1, Folder 14 [3 copies, 2 in color] Box 1, Folder 15 Harper’s Weekly, Saturday, October 12, 1861, OVB Graphics: pages 641–656. Various illustrations including railway Box 1, Folder 12 accident of Sept. 17 near Huron, Indiana “Reception of the Ninth Indiana Volunteers at OVC Graphics: Danville, Kentucky, after driving out the Rebels.” Box 1, Folder 16 Harper’s Weekly, 8 Nov. 1862, p. 710 “Battle of Stone River, Tenn. The decisive charge of OVC Graphics: General Negley’s division across the river… January Box 1, Folder 17 2d, 1863…,” pp. 312–313 “Attack of the Federal forces on the Confederate OVC Graphics: works during the siege of Vicksburg, May 22d, 1863,” Box 1, Folder 18 [pp. 66–67] “Morgan’s raid into Indiana–the Confederate guerillas OVC Graphics: destroying and pillaging the depot and stores at Salem, Box 1, Folder 19 Indiana, July 10.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 8 Aug. 1863, p. 321 “Morgan’s raid into Indiana–the Confederate guerillas OVA Graphics: destroying and pillaging the depot and stores at Salem, Box 7, Folder 11 Indiana, July 10.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 8 Aug. 1863, p. 321, [color] "The Army of the Cumberland–Charge of the First OVB Graphics: Wisconsin and Second Indiana Cavalry on the Rebels, Box 1, Folder 13 October 2, 1863" Harper's Weekly, October 31, 1863, p. 692 [color] Indiana Historical Society Indiana Civil War Visual Collection Page 6 “Bounty Jumpers’ Parade, at Indianapolis, Indiana; OVA Graphics: Superintended by Col. Warner.” Box 7, Folder 9 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Dec. 24, 1864, p. 213 “Battle at Corrack’s Ford,” “p.
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