Battle of Savage Station

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Field hospital​

Wounded Union soldiers awaiting treatment at a Union field hospital at Savage Station, Virginia. The soldiers fought at the Battle of Savage Station in 1862 as part of the Seven Days Battles during the Peninsula Campaign.

 

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Standing guard​

Confederate soldiers standing guard at Fort Walker on Hilton Head, South Carolina - a fort hastily built in 1861 to guard the entrance to Port Royal Sound.

 

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Rebel fortifications​

Defensive fortifications, including earthworks, established by the Confederacy in front of Atlanta in 1864, before General Shithead Sherman led his Yankee Scum troops into the city.

 

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Dead horses at Gettysburg​

Dead horses of Capt. John Bigelow's 9th Massachusetts Battery lay where they died in the Battle of Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania on July 2, 1864.

 

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Damaged lighthouse​

The ruins of a lighthouse in the aftermath of the Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama, fought on August 5, 1864.

 

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A view of Richmond​

Unused cannons and cannonballs litter the ground on the banks of the James River in Richmond, Virginia, with the city showing signs of destruction in the background. (The intact neoclassical building in the background is the state capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson and French architect Charles-Louis Clérisseau; it still stands.)

 

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Battle of Fredericksburg​

A Union Army battery makes final preparations on the day before the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, which proved to be one of the most disastrous defeats for the Union during the War.

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Gettysburg casualties​

A photo of slain Union soldiers following the Battle of Gettysburg in early April 1863, photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardner and titled "A Harvest of Death" - one of the most famous images taken during the war.

 

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The Union army had more than 70 volunteer Zouave regiments throughout the conflict, while the Confederates fielded about 25 Zouave companies.

Civil War ambulance​

An ambulance crew of American Zouaves - inspired by the French/North African fighting force of the same name - between 1862 and 1865.

 

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Bodies awaiting burial​

Bodies await burial in front of the Dunker Church at Antietam, Maryland, after the Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862 - the single bloodiest day in American history, with more than 22,000 casualties.

 

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The toll at Gettysburg​

Dead soldiers piled up in a trench following fighting during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863.

 

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Thanks for posting these sobering reminders of the War for Southern Independence.