Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (137 page)

Sherman's soldiers tearing up the railroad in Atlanta before setting forth on their march to the sea

Library of Congress

Confederate soldiers captured at Gettysburg

U.S. Army Military History Institute

Andersonville prison, with Confederate guards along the fence in the background and the prisoners' sinks (latrines) in the foreground

Library of Congress

Ulysses S. Grant

Library of Congress

David G. Farragut

Library of Congress

William Tecumseh Sherman

Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum

Joseph E. Johnston

Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum

On deck of the
U.S.S. Hartford
, Admiral Farragut's flagship, with the wheel manned by John McFarland, who won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his helmsmanship in the battle of Mobile Bay

U.S. Naval Historical Center

Battery A, 2nd U.S. Colored Artillery, which fought at the battle of Nashville

Chicago Historical Society

Union trenches at Petersburg

Library of Congress

Confederate trenches at Petersburg, with chcvaux-de-frise (pointed stakes) and dead soldier, after the successful Union assault on April 2, 1865

U.S. Army Military History Institute

Confederate soldier killed in the Petersburg trenches

Library of Congress

An end of fighting: Confederate trenches at Petersburg after the Union assault on April 2, 1865

Minnesota Historical Society