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Jefferson Davis Mansion

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Description: View across street toward the Jefferson Davis mansion. Caption reads: "Jefferson Davis Mansion, now Confederate Museum."
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Marshall House

Date: 1864
Description: Marshall House, in which Col. E.E. Ellsworth was shot on May 24, 1861.
Print

The Fall of Richmond, Virginia

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Description: Currier & Ives lithograph of the fall of Richmond, April 2, 1865.
Poster

The Evacuation of Richmond, Virginia

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Description: "The Evacuation of Richmond Virginia. By the Government of the Southern Confederacy on the Night of April 2nd 1865." Before evacuating, the Confederates se...
Photograph

Libby Prison

Date: 1864
Description: Exterior view of Libby Prison, a Confederate Prison. The view includes tents and three tenement (loft style) buildings. A group of men stand in the foregro...
Print

Libby Prison

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Description: Woodcut of "Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.--Place of Confinement for U.S. Soldiers Captured by the Rebels.--From a Photograph." This view includes tents and t...
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Libby Prison

Date: 1863
Description: A heavily retouched photographic view of Libby Prison. This view shows tents and three tenement (loft style) buildings.
Photograph

General Lee's Residence

Date: 1864
Description: A stereograph of exterior of General Lee's residence.
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Richmond Central School

Date: 1871
Description: Stereograph of exterior of a building used as the Confederate government's Executive Mansion. This was where Jefferson Davis and his family stayed during t...
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Strasburg Hospital

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Description: Exterior of Strasburg Hospital. The four-story structure on the right was attached to the large house on the left around 1902. Caption reads: "Strasburg, V...
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Residences on Mountainside

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Description: Elevated view of a colony of residences in a mountain setting.
Photograph

Country Road Intersection

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Description: View of an intersection of two dirt roads, East Market Street and Lafayette Street. A man, horseback, can be seen on the left, while two people walk past ...
Photograph

View of Town

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Description: Elevated view of town as seen from a hilly landscape. Published by The City Book Store.
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World War Monument and County Clerk's Office

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Description: View of a World War I Monument outside of the County Clerk's Office. To the left of the colonnaded Clerk's Office, the Old Courthouse, built in 1895, can ...
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Washington's Headquarters

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Description: View of Washington's Headquarters, a small colonial home located on Loudon Street.
Photograph

Stuart Hall

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Description: View of Stuart Hall, a residential mansion used as the Virginia Female Institute. Chartered on January 13, 1744, the school is the state's oldest college p...
Photograph

Mason Street

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Description: View down Mason Street featuring Trinity Methodist Church at the Cedar Street intersection. The Gothic structure was built in 1898. Published by Parish &...
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Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street, lined with residences.
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Statue of General Hugh Mercer

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Description: Bronze statue of Hugh Mercer (1726-1777), Physician and Brigadier General of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Mercer died of wound he rec...
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Map of Culpeper County with Parts of Madison, Rappahannock, and Fauquier Counties, Virginia

Date: 1863
Description: This map shows roads, railroads, settlements, farms with owners' names, vegetation, streams, and fords in Culpeper County region during the Civil War. A ma...

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