Carte de visite copy of a lost daguerreotype portrait of Colonel Robert E. Lee while serving with the US Army in Washington, D.C., c. 1850. By Mathew Brady.
Time-lapse two photograph portrait of Union soldier Francis E. Brownell, 1862. Brownell killed secessionist James W. Jackson shortly after Jackson shot Union Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth in the Marshall House in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1861. Brownell is possibly standing on the large Confederate flag captured in the incident for which he was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.
"Col. Hamtramck, Virginia Volunteers." Daguerreotype portrait of an American colonel from Virginia who fought in the Mexican-American War, c. 1847.
Two studio portraits of three Union officers planning the capture of John Wilkes Booth, c. 1865. Almost certainly made after Booth's death 12 days after his assassination of President Abraham Lincoln as a simplified recreation of the effort involved in capturing Booth. Union intelligence chief Colonel Lafayette Baker is sitting at center, Lieutenant Everton Conger is at left, and Lieutenant Luther Baker is at right.
Comparison between the two photographs of Confederate dead that lay gathered at the bottom of the parapet of Battery Robinett on the day after the Battle of Corinth, 1862. Colonel William P. Rogers of the 2nd Texas (far left) was holding the colors of his unit when he was killed by canister shot.