Description: Unidentified soldier posing on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b02_15
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs;
Places: Ohio; Lookout Mountain (Tennessee)
 

Description: Soldiers from the 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry holding a flag on Lookout Mountain, Tennesee. 2nd Lt. Benjamin Bragg, who served in Companies A & B, is holding the flag. Also in the photo, though their position is uncertain, is "Let Stavy, of Raindow, Washington County," and "Good Smith of Beveryly, OH." Picture is a copy of a tintype. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f28_01
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 63rd (1862-1865) Company G; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 36th (1861-1865) Company A
Places: Beverly (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio); Lookout Mountain (Tennessee)
 

Description: Reproduction of a photograph of Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant (in the foreground on the left) at Lookout Mountain, with General Rawlings and General Webster, December 1863. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04545
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: Dated ca. April 1862, this lithograph titled "Shiloh Spring" shows the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment around the time of the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. Soldiers on horseback can be seen against a backdrop of cut trees on a hillside. A soldier appears to fill his canteen at a spring near the center of the image. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08607
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862; Battlefields; Soldiers; Military life
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: Lithograph illustration by Alfred E. Mathews titled "Battle of Shiloh." The image's caption or subtitle is "The Gunboats Tylor and Lexington Supporting the National troops, by firing up the ravine back of Pittsburg Landing." Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08610
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862; Battlefields; Steamboats;
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: Lithograph illustration by Alfred E. Mathews showing the Female Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, which served as the barracks of the 51st Regiment Ohio Volunteers and as Headquarters of the Provost Marshall, Colonel Stanley Matthews, March 1862. Below the illustration and its caption is an excerpt from the Circular of the Female Academy, in which the institution's president, C. D. Elliott, emphasizes support for the Confederate cause during the Civil War. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08612
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Union Army; Artists--Ohio; School buildings; Confederate States of America;
Places: Nashville (Tennessee)
 

Description: Lithograph titled "The Battle of Stone River or Murfreesboro," January 2-4, 1863, drawn by Alfred Edward Mathews. The Battle of Stones River (also called the Second Battle of Murfreesboro) took place between December 31, 1862, and January 2, 1863. It was considered a Union victory, but had a very high percentage of casualties on both sides. Noted on the lithograph are numbers representing troops of the 19th Ohio, 9th Kentucky, 79th Indiana, and 11th Kentucky, as well as General Sam Beatty and staff. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV117_F2_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; Battlefields; Military Ohio; Soldiers
Places: Murfreesboro (Tennessee);
 

Description: Lithograph illustration of Pittsburg Landing, the scene of the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee on January 19, 1862. The battle was named for the nearby Shiloh Methodist Church. This lithograph was created from an original sketch by Alfred E. Mathews of the 31st Regiment O.V.I., May 1862. Numerous steamboats can be seen along the shore, including the Silver Moon and the Glendale, and military tents can be seen in the distance. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08611
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862; Battlefields; Steamboats; Military encampments
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: Sketch of the Shiloh Methodist Church done by Alfred E. Mathews of the 31st O.V.I. The Battle of Shiloh, which took place on June 6-7, 1862, was named after this log church near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08604
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862; Soldiers -- Ohio; Churches
Places: Tennessee