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CP Sweel

Description: Photograph of Union Captain CP Sweel, Fourth Ohio Volunteers. He was the Father of Dorwin A, Robert B, and Ralph Sweel, c. 1861-1865.
Date: 1861~/1865~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0359]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There were days of respite from warfare, when officers' wives were permitted to visit them. In the background is a glimpse of the battlefield of Gettysburg."
Date: 1934
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0346]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE RIDERLESS HORSE of Chickamauga. A memorial to the First Wisconsin cavalry which preserves the tradition of a cavalry horse which continued to charge after its master had been shot in the saddle. A fence now keeps visitors to the park from riding in the saddle."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0336]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE SCENE OF AN ENCOUNTER between Lee and Grant. The reconstructed courthouse at Spotsyivania, which stands on the site of the original building. Here the armies of the two commanders met on May 12, 1864."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0369]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SHILOH General Grant's headquarters when the battle of Shiloh began. "Cherry Mansion" at Savannah on the Tennessee river, where Grant, who had emerged from obscurity to cover himself with glory at the attack of Fort Donelson the preceding February, was at breakfast when the Confederates attacked at daybreak."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0376]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the finest pictures taken by Matthew B. Brady, the famous Civil war photographer, shows the Union preparations for the peninsular campaign of 1862."
Date: 1934
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0339]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE SITE OF A BLOODY BUT INDECISIVE battle. A view from the Confederate earthworks on the battlefield of the Wilderness, fought at the start of Grant's campaign Richmond, May 6, 1864."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0350]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Confederate soldiers lie dead behind stone wall at Frederickburg, Va., at the foot of Marye's Heights after Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's troops finally out flanked the southerners and swept them from Sunken."
Date: 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0356]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "WHERE THE FEDERAL TROOPS encamped before the battle of Shiloh. Pittsburgh Landing on the Tennessee river where five divisions of Greant's men were in camp."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0320]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Gen Irvin McDowell didn't really want to fight) . (Gen. Joseph E. Johnston arrived in the of time) . (Gen. Thomas J. Jackson stood like a stonewall) . (Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard was spoiling for battle) . HORRORS OF WAR: All the excitement and suffering experienced by first-time soldiers are depicted starkly in this old print of the First Battle of Bull Run. Soldiers comfort their wounded comrades in the for… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0340]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A MONUMENT TO MARK the end of the war. A memorial near Durham, N. C., where, on April 26, 1865, General Johnston, Confederate commander of the armies of North Carolina and Georgia, surrendered to General Sherman, in the closing act of the war."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0364]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A MEMORIAL ON the battlefield at Mufreesborough. A monument which stands on a hill on the Tennessee battlefield, to amrk the site where 58 Union cannon were stationed during the second day's fighting. Over 1,800 Confederate soldiers were killed here."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0347]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter --- and this map indicates the reason why. As the only major fort in the deep South remaining in Union hands as war approached, sumter controlled Charleston HARBOR, ONE OF THE FEW DEEP SEA PORTS OF THE CONFEDARCY."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0322]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A Union screw sloop, U.S. Navy's San Jacinto, stops the British Royal Mail packet Trent in the Bahama Channel on Nov. 8, 1861. in this engraving depicting andincident which threatened war between the United State and England for a while."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0315]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These two charming couples are men and women of the sixties who faced the horrors of Civil war; who wondered whether the mad project for a railroad across the Rock mountains would ever be completed; and who linked themselves to today with the child shown in their arms, who is over 70 now."
Date: 1934
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0341]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE RANKS OF THE DEAD AT APPOMATTOX. The Soldiers' cemetery near the house where Lee' surrendered to Grant. Eighteen Confederate soldiers and one Union soldier are buried here."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0367]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE SCENE OF A BLOODY VICTORY for the soth marye's Heights, a strong Confederate position in the battle of Fredericksburg, now a United State national cemetary where lie buried many of the 12,653 Union troops killed in the fighting between Lee's army and Burnside."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0327]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The "place of peace," the little log Methodist chapel, Shiloh chapel in Tennessee, which gave its name to the bloody Battle of Shiloh, is seen in a reproduction of an old painting."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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