The American Civil War was one of the greatest conflicts in American history. It began on April 12, 1861, with the Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, and lasted for five years. Before and during the Civil War, the North and South differed greatly on economic issues. The war was about slavery, but primarily about its economic consequences. Here below is a collection of spectacular original and colorized photos of the civil war. It features portraits of famous leaders and ordinary soldiers and vignettes of American life during the conflict: scenes from urban and plantation life, destroyed cities, and contested battlefields.
#1 John L. Burns, the “old hero of Gettysburg,” with gun and crutches in Gettysburg, Penn., July, 1863.
#2 Rooster fighting at Gen. Orlando B. Willcox’s headquarters in Petersburg, Va., 1864.
#3 Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand; at the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, Sept.-Oct., 1862.
#4 Washington, District of Columbia. Tent life of the 31st Penn. Inf. at Queen’s farm, vicinity of Fort Slocum in Washington, DC, 1861.
#5 Allan Pinkerton (“E. J. Allen”) of the Secret Service on horseback in Antietam, Md., Oct. 1862.
#6 Camp of Captain [John J.] Hoff., in Gettysburg, Penn., July, 1865.
![Camp of Captain [John J.] Hoff., in Gettysburg, Penn., July, 1865.](https://www.bygonely.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/American_civil_war_colorized_photos_7.jpg)
#7 African American legislator Robert Smalls of South Carolina.
#8 Portrait of Rear Adm. David D. Porter, officer of the Federal Navy, 1860.
#9 Portrait of Maj. Gen. George A. Custer, officer of the Federal Army, 1865.
#10 Portrait of President Abraham Lincoln, 1863.
#11 President Lincoln on the battlefield.
#12 President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the general’s tent, Antietam, Md., Sept. – Oct. 1862.
#13 Capt. Custer of the 5th Cavalry is seen with Lt. Washington, a prisoner and former classmate.
#14 Officer’s mess, Company E, 93rd New York Volunteers, in Bealeton, Va., Aug., 1863.
#15 Three Confederate prisoners in Gettysburg, Penn., June-July, 1863.
#16 Remembering the dead at Sudley Church near Bull Run, Va. March 1862.
#17 Powder boy by gun of U.S.S. New Hampshire off the coast of Charleston, S.C., 1860.
#18 Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters, 1863-1865.
#19 Lewis Payne, a conspirator in the assassination of President Lincoln, in the Washington Navy Yard, April-July 1865.
#20 David E. Herold, a conspirator in the assassination of President Lincoln, in the Washington Navy Yard, April-July 1865.
#21 Frederick Douglass
#22 Portrait of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, officer of the Federal Army, 1860-1865.
Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME; Original image: Mathew Brady—Library of Congress
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Isn’t this the guy where they get the term sideburns from?
