Band Music from the Civil War Era

Civil War Band Photo Gallery

Most of the photographs presented here are selected from the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Some also appear in the online collection Selected Civil War Photographs. In those cases a link to the bibliographic record in that collection has been provided.
Portraits In Formation Drum Corps

Portraits
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Band of the 8th New York State Militia. Arlington, Va., June, 1861. The two over-the-shoulder brasses fully visible are: an E-flat tenor (left) and a four-valve E-flat bass tuba (right).
Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-B8184-4545
Call Number: LOT 4190E
Band of the 10th Veteran Reserve Corps. Washington, D.C. April, 1865. Detail, At center, fully visible, is a B-flat baritone. Partially visible: B-flat cornet (left), and E-flat tenor (right).
Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-B8184-7865
Call Number: LOT 4190G
Company H, 36th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-B8184-4534
Call Number: LOT 4173

17th Maine Inf. Vols. (taken May 3, 1864)
Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-B8184-10602
Call Number: LOT 4190F
8th U.S. Infantry At Head Quarters, Army of Potomac near Fairfax, Court House, Va., June, 1863
Prints and Photographs Division.
Reproduction Number: --
Call Number: LOT 4190F
Seminary Building, Lookout Mountain
Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-B8184-B1310
Call Number: LOT 4165F
Band group seated behind their instruments
Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-BH822-44
Call Number: LOT 4190F
U.S. Army Band standing on steps
Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-BH822-46
Call Number: LOT 4190F
Band of 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery on James River, Va.
Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ63-41498
Call Number: LOT 4188

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Portraits In Formation Drum Corps

Band Music from the Civil War Era