A great outdoor CDV of Fort McAlistar in Savannah, Georgia. A 32 pound cannon is pointing out to sea. A man stands behind the cannon. The CDV has a Sam Cooley, 10th Army Corp, Beaufort, S.C. backmark. Savannah, Georgia CDVs are getting very hard to find.

A wonderful albumen of a naval gun in a fort surrounding Norfolk, Virginia. This photo was taken by a Southern photographer. The backmark says "Photographed by Kimberly Bros., Norfolk, Va.". It is very hard to find large photographs taken by Southern photographers. The card is approximately 10 inches by 8 inches. The actual photgraph is approximately 7 3/8 inches by 5 3/16 inches.

A wonderful image of the state capitol in Baton Rouge after the Union soldiers burned it. Written on the front is "State House, Baton Rouge, La". The backmark is "Photographed By A.D. Lytle, Main Street, Baton Rouge, LA.".

A great CDV of a Civil War post office with four mail men standing in front. The mail men look like they are wearing Union Civil War uniforms. On the top of the building is "Post Office". On the back of the CDV in period ink is "Post office and four postman".

An early photograph of the Hartford, Connecticut state capitol. The photo measures approximately 4 1/2 inches by 3 3/16 inches. Great early state capitol photograph.

A nice CDV of General Benjamin Butler after the war. He made so much money taking silver when he was military governor of New Orleans, he became the governor of Massachusetts after the war and then went on to Washington. The photographer was C.D. Fredericks, New York, Habana, Paris.

A wonderful CDV of the Beacon House on Morris Island, South Carolina. The Beacon House was used as Confederate Headquarters and a light house. It was later held by Federal sharp shooters and was shelled by Confederates at Fort Wagner. There is no backmark on this CDV but the photo was probably taken by Sam Cooley. There are several soldiers standing inside the ruins of the house and a wagon outside the front of the house.

A nice photograph of the bluffs at Chickasaw Bayou outside of Vicksburg, Mississippi. These bluffs streched northeast from Vicksburg. Walnut Hill forms a perfect natural fortress overlooking the bottom lands toward the Yazoo River, rising to a height of two hundred feet, as seen in the photo. The Confederate positions were on the bluff and repulsed Sherman's men during the December, 1862 attack on Vicksburg. Sherman lost 2,000 men trying to take the bluffs and he decided the bluffs were impregnable. The photograph is approximately 4 1/16 inches by 3 7/8 inches. A great Civil War period photograph.

A wonderful photograph of General Hunter's headquarters on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. This photograph is attributed to Sam Cooley, photographer. The photo is approximately 3 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches.

A very nice photograph of Blandford Church. I believe this is in from around Petersburg, VA. A man is sitting in the front of the church. The size of the photograph is approximately 4 3/8 inches by 4 1/8 inches. This is an unusual size period Civil War photograph. Written on the front is "Beaufort Church" and is a misidentification. I found this information on the web. · "Old Blandford Church," of which a view is here presented, is a great object of interest to all visitors; the cemetery surrounding it having monuments erected one hundred and fifty years ago. The walls of the main body of the building are of English brick, imported from the mother country. The services of the Episcopal Church were first performed in 1735, and continued to be read until 1825, nearly a century. Since that time, owing to the movement of the inhabitants of Blandford to the present site of Petersburg, the church has not been used, although the cemetery, now much enlarged, still continues to be the general depository of the dead. The ivy-covered walls now stand as a historic monument of what was formerly the aristocratic portion of the city. In the cemetery the stranger is not only shown the almost obliterated slab beneath which rests the remains of General Phillips, who died May, 1781, during the war of independence, but also the monument, erected to the memory of the brave volunteers from the "Cockade City," who left houses and friends in the war of 1812. The greater space, however, has been allotted during the last four years to the graves of "Our Soldiers," these words being cut on a simple wooden cross, to mark the resting place of the Confederate dead. A somewhat eccentric sexton, whose father before him performed the same duties, is generally on the spot to enlighten visitors in regard to the history of the church, and is apparently much pleased to do so from the manner in which he enters upon his oft-repeated narrative. During the siege the edifice and its surroundings suffered but little damage from shot or shell, although the position was in front of the point of attack at the time of the explosion of the mine on the 30th July, 1864."

A nice stereoview of Fort Sumter taken in March, 1865 by George Barnard. Fort Sumter was evacuated by the Confederates in February, 1865. You can see Barnard's rowboat and crew on the sandbar and the damage done to the fort by Union land and naval batteries. More than 46,000 shells had been fired by Union batteries in 280 days of shelling from 1863 to 1865.

A really neat CDV of the bridge over Bull Run. Across this little stream that was destined to mark the center of the first, and in many respects the most desperate, battle of the Civil War, we see what was left of the bridge after the day had ended in a Federal route. During the route, the little bridge groaned with the weight of the men struggling to get across it. Finally, in frantic haste, it was destroyed by the Federals to delay the dreaded pursuit. Here Federal engineers are rebuilding the bridge to supply the Union army thirty miles south of Washington. Great CDV!

A neat photo of a Civil War period man on a horse with his dog. A nice outdoor CDV. there is no backmark.

A really nice photograph of an Illinois soldier in the Civil War. Unfortunately this great CDV is not identified but the photographer's back mark is "Dawson & Freeman Photographers - Elgin, Ill.". The soldier is seated and you can see from the knees up. He is wearing a single breasted coat with his kepi on a table next to him.

A nice seated photograph of an Union officer. You can see his rank straps but I can't tell what is on them. He is wearing a single row of buttons which would normally mean he was a Captain or less rank. Majors and up usually wore double breasted coats but as you know the higher officers wore what they wanted. There is no back mark on this CDV.