New Digital Collection: Civil War Photographs

The Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs
The Liljenquist family donated this collection of ambrotype and tintype photographs to the Library of Congress in 2010. Although there is an emphasis on enlisted men, the images below provide only a sample of the photographs retrieved using such search terms as mourning, families, women, and girls. 

[Unidentified girl in mourning dress holding framed photograph
 of her father as a cavalryman with sword and Hardee hat] 

[Unidentified woman wearing mourning brooch and
displaying framed image of unidentified soldier]

[Unidentified young women in dresses in front of American flag]]

[Unidentified African American soldier in Union
uniform with wife and two daughters]