Civil War Drawings Collection. During the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman maneuvered Johnston's Confederate army out of several successive defensive positions in Cobb County. Sherman first found Johnston's army entrenched in the Marietta area on June 9. The Confederate's had established defensive lines along Brushy, Pine, and Lost Mountains but Sherman extended his forces beyond the Confederate lines, causing a partial Rebel withdrawal. After further pressure and skirmishing from Union forces, Johnston withdrew to an arc-shaped position centered on Kennesaw Mountain on June 18 and 19. Repulsed several times, Sherman eventually extended the line on his right and forced Johnston to withdraw from the Marietta area on July 2-3.

Civil War Drawings Collection. The Battle of New Market ,13-15 May 1864, followed Sigel's army's march from Martinsburg, West Virginia to Winchester, Viriginia.

Civil War Drawings Collection. The Battle of Philippi was fought on 3 June 1861 as part of a two-prong attack against the Confederate forces in Philippi, [West] Virginia. Federal forces under McClellan, planning to deceive the enemy into believing their objective was Harper's Ferry, departed by train to the east. They de-trained at the small village of Thornton and marched south on a back road. Meanwhile, the 7th Indiana combined with the 6th Indiana near Webster, with a total of 1,400 men, and marched directly south from Webster to execute a double envelopment of the Confederates. Before dawn on June 3, the two Union columns converged on Philippi, after an overnight march in rainy weather. Union forces began firing their artillery, which awakened the sleeping Confederates. After firing a few shots at the advancing Union troops, the Southerners broke lines and began running frantically to the south, some still in their bed clothes, which caused journalists to refer to the battle as the "Races at Philippi". The Union victory propelled the young General McClellan into the national spotlight, and he was soon in command of all Union armies. The battle also inspired protests in the western part of Virginia against secession. A few days later in Wheeling, the Wheeling Convention nullified the Virginia ordinance of secession, split the state, and named Francis H. Pierpont governor of West Virginia.

Civil War Drawings Collection. On February 18, 1865, Harper's Weekly described the fire in Savannah, Georgia: "On the night of the 27th of January an extensive conflagration broke out in Savannah, in the western part of the city. The fire broke out in a stable, and is supposed to have been caused by rebel incendiaries. Owing to the inactivity of the Fire Department the flames spread rapidly, and at midnight had reached the Arsenal on Granite Hill. A large quantity of shells was stored in the buildings just as it had been left by the rebels. There was a series of explosions during the next two hours. Several squares were destroyed by the fire, and hundreds of unfortunate women and children were driven front their homes into the streets. Nearly all the houses consumed were private residences." [ pg. 99.]

Civil War Drawings Collection, see also 1945.580.3. In September 1864, Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant executed simultaneous attacks against both flanks of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army. One assault occurred on the end of Lee's line to relieve pressure on Fort Harrison, which federal forces had captured and were holding against counterattacks. The second attack was designed to exploit the opening created by Lee's counterattack on Fort Harrison. The Union and Confederate forces met while marching toward battle line in the area of Peebles' Farm and Poplar Springs Church. Confederate defenders lost works on both sides of their lines as a result, while the Union army extended the siege lines past the Peebles' Farm area, bringing them all the more closer to their ultimate goal of capturing the Boydton Plank Road.

Civil War Drawings Collection. An event of December 1863, in which an early sub-marine diver, cleaning oysters off an ironclad 'Monitor' class steam ship at Station Creek, near Port Royal, South Carolina, surfaces near a boat of black watermelon sellers, startling them. The diver humorously absconds with one of the melons, as the frightened vendors flee the scene. The ironclad under repair was likely the USS 'Lehigh' or 'Nahant'.

Civil War Drawings Collection. View with City Hall and the Medical College marked.

Civil War Drawings Collection. CSS Ellis (later USS Ellis) was a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy and the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Confederate Service The Ellis, with Commander W. T. Muse, played an important part in the defense of Fort Hatteras and Fort Clark in Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina on August 28-29, 1861, of Roanoke Island on February 7-8, 1862, and of Elizabeth City, North Carolina on February 10, 1862; that day she was captured by the Union Army after a desperate struggle in which her commander, Lieutenant James W. Cooke, CSN, was badly wounded. United States Service Ellis was taken into the U.S. Navy, under the command of Lieutenant C. L. Franklin, USN, and spent her entire U.S. Navy service in the sounds and rivers of North Carolina. Ellis took part in a combined expedition which captured Fort Macon, near Beaufort, North Carolina, on April 25, 1862 and from August 15 to 19 she made an expedition to Swansboro, North Carolina to destroy salt works and a battery. On October 14, she was detailed to the blockade of Bogue Inlet, and a week later, captured and burned the schooner Adelaide with a valuable cargo of turpentine, cotton, and tobacco. Final Action In November 1862, Ellis, under command of Lieutenant William B. Cushing, sailed up New River Inlet to capture Jacksonville, North Carolina. The steamer captured two schooners, some arms and mail. On her way down river, Ellis ran aground on November 24 and could not be refloated. After dark her commanding officer moved all the crew except six and all her equipment and supplies except her pivot gun, some ammunition to one of the captured schooners. While the schooners slipped down the river, Cushing and five of his men remained to fight it out. Early on the morning of November 25, the Confederates opened fire on Ellis. Cushing chose not to surrender and before leaving his ship, set fire to her in five places. Cushing and his men reached the schooner just in time to escape several companies of cavalry trying to cut off the schooner at the mouth of the inlet. Ellis was blown to pieces by the explosion of her magazine on the morning of November 25, 1862.

Civil War Drawings Collection. Engraved for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 2 March 1861(275:XI):237, as "Clinch Rifles Review on the Parade Ground of the Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia." A rare Confederate view of a dress review of the 5th Gerogia infantry, also called the Clinch Rifles, after General Duncan L. Clinch, the commander during the Seminole Wars (1835-1836). The unit was organized on May 11th, 1861, with further companies joining the unit during the following year, .

Civil War Drawings Collection. Engraved for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 11 January 1862 (XIII:320):117-8, as the two-page spread "Battle of Dranesville, Va., December 20th 1861 Between the Federal Forces Commanded by Generals McCall and Ord. and the Confederate General Stewart." Though the battle was small, of no tactical importance and resulted in only light casualties, it marked the first time in the east that a Union force had bested their Confederate enemy, inflicting 230 casualties while suffering only 71, and were able to drive them from the field.