Photograph taken during the viewing in New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral for John Hughes, who was the first Archbishop for the Archdiocese of New York, January 1864.
Tintype post-mortem portrait of an unidentified Union officer in his coffin.
Post-mortem portrait of an unidentified nurse who probably died from disease while working in a military hospital in Annapolis, Maryland, c. 1863. By Hopkins.
Photograph believed to be a post-mortem portrait of an unidentified Union officer standing with the help of hidden framework. The "MS" on his hat identifies him as Medical Staff.
Three post-mortem portraits of notorious pro-Confederate guerrilla leader William T. Anderson, better known as Bloody Bill, being posed for the camera in Richmond, Missouri, a few hours after being killed in a shootout with Union soldiers, 1864. A Union soldier just off camera to the left can be seen propping him up.
Confederate general Turner Ashby's hand-tinted pink cheeks belie the fact that this ambrotype was made after he died in 1862. Photographing loved ones after death was a common practice in the nineteenth century. (The Museum of the Confederacy)