Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: showing three male members of the Choctaw, Ojibbeway and Sioux tribes playing sports with Lacrosse-like nets and rackets; one player has a ceremonial tail-like ornament hanging from his back

Illustration with Inscription: "Its Last Stage was made right to Heaven where St. Peter, horrified, let it in."

Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: two males, one with a rifle or musket and one wearing a bear-skin shawl with visible claws and a woman with an infant

Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: 2 males, one with a rifle or musket, a female and a child

Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: Two male warriors with spears

Portrait. Studies of Native Americans: Warrior Chief Mah-to-toh-pa, his wife and a young boy

Civil War Drawings Collection. Probably a scene from General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, the Battle of Ezra Church, 28 July 1864. Sherman's army stretched around the northern defenses of Atlanta. He decided to cut off the railroad supply lines from Macon, thus forcing the defending army to withdraw without a direct assault. Sherman sent his easternmost army, under Maj. Gen. Howard to the far western side of Atlanta where the railroad entered the city. Defending General Hood, anticipating Sherman's maneuver, moved his troops out to oppose the Union army. Hood planned to catch them completely by surprise. Although Hood's Confederate troops were outnumbered by the main Union army, he calculated that a surprise attack against an isolated portion of the enemy could succeed. The armies met on the afternoon of 28 July at a chapel called Ezra Church. Unfortunately for Hood, there was no surprise for Howard, who had predicted such a maneuver based on his knowledge of Hood from their cadet days at West Point. Howard's troops were already waiting in their trenches when Hood reached them. The Confederate army attacked, but was repulsed by the Union Army's improvised breastwork of logs and rails. The rebels were defeated, although they managed to stop Howard from reaching the railroad line.

Illustration: A large battleship with four smokestacks and two towers.

Civil War Drawings Collection. One of several earthwork fortifications constructed during the occupation of Hilton Head, the largest and most permanent called Fort Howell, in 1864. Fort Howell was constructed by Union Forces occupying Hilton Head Island and was one of the final fortifications to be built during the war. The men of the 32nd U.S. Colored Infantry Volunteers labored to complete the fort in the fall of 1864, to protect nearby Mitchelville, a freedman's town of newly emancipated slaves. The "Traverse" was an earthwork that protected troops inside from enemy assaults on the fort's entrance. Pentagonal in shape, the earthwork measured approximately 525 by 400 feet and reached a height of 23 feet. Four magazines, protected by earth mounds, housed powder and shot for up to 27 guns. The exterior of the fort featured a moat and wooden palisades. The area was directly adjacent to the fort walls, further protected by guns mounted in bastions.

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