Italian navigator and cartographer. Sebastian Cabot (c. 1474 – c. December 1557) was an Italian explorer,…
The vicuna is the smallest member of the camel family. It lives in elevated locations in South America.
This south American ostrich can not fly, the wings being small; but it is a swift runner, equaling a…
Tapirs are found in South America. They have four toes in front and three behind. The snout is prolonged.
Armadillos are native to South America and are classed with the edentata or toothless animals.
(1783-1830) Simon Bolivar was a patriot for South American Independence. He fought against the Spanish…
(1813-1890) Fremont was an explorer and general. He was promoted to major-general during the Civil War.…
Thousands of patriotic citizens filled every available space in the big railroad station in Jersey City…
Captain Bailey, bearing a flag of truce, put off in a boat, accompanied by Lieutenant George H. Perkins,…
When General McClellan reached Locst Hill, on april 2nd, 1862, he found fifty-eight thousand men and…
The influx of Northern regiments of troops into Washington during the early days of the war rendered…
Recapture of artillery by the First Ohio and other regiments under General Rousseau, April 7, 1862.…
In 1861, he was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers and assigned to the command of General Lander's…
Upon his joining the forces under General Grant the command of a brigade under General Prentiss was…
He took part in the battles of Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain and Atlanta. For his services at the…
Fort Beauregard, at Bay Point, on the point opposite Fort Walker, was built of sand and palmetto logs…
The activity of the Confederates on the Potomac and the confluent rivers was almost incredible. In one…
Scouting party of the ninth Indian volunteers, or, as they were called, "The tigers of the bloody ninth."
View of the camp of the twentieth Indiana Regiment; also of Fort Hatteras and the anchorage at Hatteras…
Evacuation of Corinth, Mississippi- Confederate fortifications, from the northern angle, looking south-…
Our special artist, who accompanied General McClellan's command, sketched the gallant Eleventh Indiana…
Evacuation of Corinth, Mississippi- burning of stations, warehouses and supplies- entry of Federal Troops.…
First day's bombardment, Federal Schooners off Forts Jackson and St. Philip, commanding the passage…
April 5, 1862. The General is arriving to take personal command of the Federal Army in its advance on…
Was in command of the First Corps of the Army at the Potomac and was engaged at Fredericksburg and at…
At the assault on Fort Wagner, July 18, he was mortally wounded. He was at once removed to New York…
He joined the Western Louisiana campaign, and from May till September, 1864, was chief engineer of the…
While directing the placing of some pieces of artillery in position in front of Spottslyvania Courthouse…
Fort Pulaski, on Cockspur Island at the entrance to the Savannah River, Georgia, was built by the United…
The kitchen of the Fremont Dragoons at Tipton, Missouri. Tipton, which is 38 miles from Jefferson City,…
Headquarters of General Freemont, Jefferson City, Missouri, October 1, 1861. Jefferson City is on the…
At the time this picture was drawn the handsome arsenal of the government of Charleston, South Carolina,…
Bolivian fabric pattern sketched in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
"Successful charge of Company H, first Massachusetts regiment (Captain Carruth), on a Confederate redan…
"The city of Fredericksburg, VA., from the North side of the Rappahannock- from a sketch by our special…
"Advance of General Rosecrans's division through the forests of Laurel Hill to attack the Confederate…
"Gallant charge of the Sixth Regiment, United States Regular Cavalry, upon the Confederate Stuart's…
"General Rosecrans, commanding the Department of Western Virginia, surrounded by his staff, at their…
"Manassasas Junction, showing the evacuated Confederate fortifications, abondoned camps and wagons,…
"The Battle of Cross Keys- opening of the fight- the federal troops, under General Fremont, advancing…
"The army of General Fremont on its march up the Shenandoah Valley- wounded and ragged soldiers. Fremont…
"[African American] drivers of the baggage train attached to General Pleasonton's Cavalry brigade watering…
"Traveling in state"- General Burnside on the road from New Berne to Beaufort, N. C.
"Burning of the American merchantman "Harvey Birch," of New York, Captain Nelson, in the British Channel,…
"Desperate engagement, april 24th, 1862, between the United States gunboat "Varuna," Commander Boggs,…
"Infernal machine designed by the Confederates to destroy the Federal Flotilla in the Potomac discovered…
"General Averill, born in Cameron, Steuben County, N. Y., November 5th, 1832, was graduated at the United…
"General Granger, born in New York, in 1821, died in Santa Fe, N. M., January 10th, 1876, was graduated…
"General Kilpatrick, born near Deckertown, N. J., January 14th, 1836, died in Valparaiso, Chili, December…
"Colonel Cross, born in Lancaster, N. H., April 22nd, 1832, died near Gettysburg, Pa., July 22nd, 1863.…