Mathew B. Brady
American Photographer · 1823–1896
122 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture
> The correspondents of the rebel newspapers are sheer falsifiers, the correspondents of the Northern Journals are not to be depended upon . . . but Brady never misrepresents. > > Though known first as a portraitist, Mathew Brady became the most famous American photographer of the 1800s because of his studio's many Civil War images. Like other enterprising photographers in the mid-1850s, he opened
Works

69th Reg. N.Y.V. Pioneer Party
Getty Museum · about 1862

Abraham Lincoln
Getty Museum · February 1860
![[Abraham] Lincoln [in profile]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/50a00899-8f3b-443b-8b0f-10fb15ae9bef/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Abraham] Lincoln [in profile]
Getty Museum · 1862–1864
![Admiral [David Glasgow] Farragut](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f2d19510-3a37-4ad7-acf5-20343370f1a9/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Admiral [David Glasgow] Farragut
Getty Museum · about 1865

Aiken House
Getty Museum · 1864
![[American Civil War compilation album: mostly group portraits of generals and their staffs plus some camp scenes]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/b39e2366-35b9-4729-a6b4-2fbb8066d2a9/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[American Civil War compilation album: mostly group portraits of generals and their staffs plus some camp scenes]
Getty Museum · 1864

Baldy Smith and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864

Bejamin Hoid(?)
Getty Museum · 1861–1865
![Belle Plain [illeg.] Landing](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/6a0d8d9e-9ea0-474e-b652-fae5e0540723/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Belle Plain [illeg.] Landing
Getty Museum · 1864

Bermuda Hundred
Getty Museum · 1864

Birney and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Brevet Major-]Gen. [John Henry] Martindale (1815 - 1881)](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1f80cab2-f9c7-48ee-97be-670eada68a64/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Brevet Major-]Gen. [John Henry] Martindale (1815 - 1881)
Getty Museum · about 1862
![[Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry and Staff]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ffe315f7-3520-416d-bfa3-30c79014760e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry and Staff]
Getty Museum · 1864

Broadway Landing. Appomattox River
Getty Museum · 1864

Burnside and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864

Butler and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Cages Where Enslaved People Were Held]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/87bf1789-4a41-4f9e-94bd-1d0a898d603c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Cages Where Enslaved People Were Held]
Getty Museum · 1862
![Captain Coopers [sic] Battery - 1 Pennsylvania B. [sic] in front of P.](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/6709938d-5733-468c-ad5c-21d296afaf92/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Captain Coopers [sic] Battery - 1 Pennsylvania B. [sic] in front of P.
Getty Museum · 1864
![Captain Coopers [sic] Battery - 1 Pennsylvania B. [sic] in front of P.](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e8287bcb-f975-448c-9198-0931fbc71834/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Captain Coopers [sic] Battery - 1 Pennsylvania B. [sic] in front of P.
Getty Museum · 1864
![Captain [illeg.] Battery](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ffab66bd-51d7-4fae-92fa-7123055f6e92/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Captain [illeg.] Battery
Getty Museum · 1864

City Point
Getty Museum · 1864

Cornwallis' Cave. Converted into a Magazine by the Confederates.
Getty Museum · 1862

Crawford and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864

Departure of the Mayflower
Getty Museum · 1859
![[Double turreted monitor "Onondaga", James River, Virginia]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/19fec7dd-2bb2-4327-98fb-b824565243d3/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Double turreted monitor "Onondaga", James River, Virginia]
Getty Museum · 1864

Dutch Gap Canal
Getty Museum · 1864

Edward Everett
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1858
![[Edwin F. Hatfield, D.D.]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e5c6ff57-1b12-4932-b947-053693d62d38/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Edwin F. Hatfield, D.D.]
Getty Museum · 1862–1865

Fort Brady 1st Connecticut Artillery. Building Winter Quarters
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Fort Totten defenses of Washington]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/299e6c54-b3f1-48f1-9bd7-1e711ef773de/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Fort Totten defenses of Washington]
Getty Museum · about 1862
![[Ft. Runyon Settlers]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5c5a387b-8c94-4acf-9308-6084cf88e486/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Ft. Runyon Settlers]
Getty Museum · about 1862
![G.B. Fosters Naval Brigade. Captain [illeg.] C.M. 13 [illeg.]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7d1048f8-608e-42aa-a1a1-dd9906f90fec/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
G.B. Fosters Naval Brigade. Captain [illeg.] C.M. 13 [illeg.]
Getty Museum · 1864

General Ames and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864

General Foster and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
![[General George Thomas]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/2024db98-14b9-43e6-b347-5c6f9aba6472/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[General George Thomas]
Getty Museum · about 1865

General Grant
Getty Museum · 1864

General Ledlie and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
![General Neil [sic] and Staff](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5dcf029a-6e25-4d57-9d46-37bd938f6213/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
General Neil [sic] and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
![[General Sherman & Staff Before Atlanta July 19, 1864]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/8823e40f-53a3-4b24-9716-6535a0d78ce2/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[General Sherman & Staff Before Atlanta July 19, 1864]
Getty Museum · July 19, 1864

Generals Torbert, Sheridan, Wilson, Davies, Merritt, Gregg
Getty Museum · 1864

General Terry's Headquarters
Getty Museum · 1864
![[General Ulysses S. Grant and Staff]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/10b0a7d2-7ee8-4e8a-adff-150e24d5d57a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[General Ulysses S. Grant and Staff]
Getty Museum · 1864
![Gen. [Romeyn B.] Ayers](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d79bb201-592f-4494-990e-0c1437f84b34/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Gen. [Romeyn B.] Ayers
Getty Museum · about 1862
![[Gen. Ulysses S. Grant]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/8c43ecbe-30e9-4c7d-913f-008df4043281/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Gen. Ulysses S. Grant]
Getty Museum · 1864–1866
![[Georgetown Aqueduct looking towards Georgetown]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/b319e8ba-9f57-4aa4-94a3-35e9312ddd2a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Georgetown Aqueduct looking towards Georgetown]
Getty Museum · about 1862

Gibbon, Birney, Barlow, and Hancock
Getty Museum · 1864

Griffin and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864

Griffin and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Group of seven soldiers, one being seated]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/45702fde-27db-45df-9510-8f82fde2fb89/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Group of seven soldiers, one being seated]
Getty Museum · about 1862
![[Group portrait of fourteen men standing].](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a5e6e81b-13c6-41d8-876b-8577611dee98/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Group portrait of fourteen men standing].
Getty Museum · 1862

Gun Boat Agawam
Getty Museum · 1864

Gun Boat Stepping Stone
Getty Museum · 1864

Hancock and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
![[illeg.] Knight (Rebel) Taken 15 June 1864](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/50a10f57-d52c-4045-a407-a26aa3190656/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[illeg.] Knight (Rebel) Taken 15 June 1864
Getty Museum · June 15, 1864

Interior Fort Brady
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Jefferson Davis]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7387d3ea-05bc-4cbd-b022-0b88e438b696/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Jefferson Davis]
Getty Museum · about 1860
![[Joseph Camp Griffith Kennedy]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/4c1d26d1-fd98-4459-bf86-968412644093/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Joseph Camp Griffith Kennedy]
Getty Museum · daguerreotype about 1850; print about 1860
![Libbey [sic] Prison](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/9f0dca08-6ae4-431e-a03c-cdef509b9218/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Libbey [sic] Prison
Getty Museum · 1864
![Maj. Gen. [Andrew Atkinson] Humphreys. Chief of Gen. Meade's Staff.](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/fe113031-ecf2-4a5e-bf4c-2be2928d1389/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Maj. Gen. [Andrew Atkinson] Humphreys. Chief of Gen. Meade's Staff.
Getty Museum · about 1862

Major General A.E. Burnside
Getty Museum · about 1861
![[Major-]General [Benjamin Franklin] Butler (1818 - 1893)](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/14136341-9ebe-4b0e-a6d6-b5255ba10a01/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Major-]General [Benjamin Franklin] Butler (1818 - 1893)
Getty Museum · about 1864
![[Major-General Daniel Edgar] Sickles (1825 - 1914)](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/179eb158-279a-46e3-af46-4e25a78b3958/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Major-General Daniel Edgar] Sickles (1825 - 1914)
Getty Museum · about 1862
![Major[-General Hiram G.] Berry (died May 3, 1863)](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f11cbf39-41f9-407d-b1c0-6f1e1bff5da4/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Major[-General Hiram G.] Berry (died May 3, 1863)
Getty Museum · about 1862
![[Major-General Philip Henry Sheridan]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/45ff0aa9-ef31-4586-9cdc-eb23624b800c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Major-General Philip Henry Sheridan]
Getty Museum · 1865
![Martindale and Russell and Neil [sic]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/6d14f89b-4213-4adb-8195-6812b73bcd36/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Martindale and Russell and Neil [sic]
Getty Museum · 1864

Mendota
Getty Museum · 1864

Merritt and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Micihigan(?) Camp nr. Washington 1861]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/9bd1ee06-ea9f-437d-a423-acf4687571aa/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Micihigan(?) Camp nr. Washington 1861]
Getty Museum · 1861

Miles Standish and John Alden
Getty Museum · 1859
![Monitor Canonicus Taking on Coal at Frenchis [illeg.]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/6a722e2a-117f-4943-bb90-4808df37ea95/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Monitor Canonicus Taking on Coal at Frenchis [illeg.]
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Montgomery] Blair [postmaster-general]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/2a71f731-b365-447f-a24e-a8998a6f8323/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Montgomery] Blair [postmaster-general]
Getty Museum · 1862–1864

Mr. Archibald/British Consul/N.Y.
Getty Museum · about 1862

Nathaniel Parker Willis
Getty Museum · 1857

Officers, 71st Regiment, New York Infantry
Getty Museum · 1861
![Onondega [sic]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c60bb946-41e8-433a-b4db-6407562b514b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Onondega [sic]
Getty Museum · 1864

Perry
Getty Museum · 1864

Pontoon Bridge
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Portrait of an unidentified middle-aged man with muttonchop whiskers, wearing wire-rimmed glasses]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/82113c69-e544-413d-867e-8b6dfd95b887/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of an unidentified middle-aged man with muttonchop whiskers, wearing wire-rimmed glasses]
Getty Museum · about 1856
![[Portrait of a woman and child]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/228dcad3-3be9-4d25-8469-8ada5f85e14a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of a woman and child]
Getty Museum · about 1851
![[Portrait of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/dbacc704-8063-4082-9897-e979e5964e30/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy]
Getty Museum · about 1861
![[Portrait of Lt.-Col. Camille Ferri-Pisani, aide-de-camp to Prince Louis Napoleon, cousin of Napoleon III]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/609b867a-8f87-4db1-8111-2b9880d8bd98/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of Lt.-Col. Camille Ferri-Pisani, aide-de-camp to Prince Louis Napoleon, cousin of Napoleon III]
Getty Museum · 1861

Port Royal, Virginia, May 3rd 1864
Getty Museum · May 3, 1864

Potter and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864

Priscilla and John Alden
Getty Museum · 1859

Professor Lowe Inflating Balloon Intrepid
Getty Museum · 1862

Professor Lowe inflating Balloon Intrepid to Reconnoiter Battle of Fair Oaks.
Getty Museum · 1862

Putnam
Getty Museum · 1864

Rebel Prisoners
Getty Museum · 1864

Rebel Prisoners, Gettysburgh.
Getty Museum · about 1862

Reverdy Johnson
Getty Museum · 1862–1865
![[Robert E. Lee]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/2df4a080-8147-4a1c-b885-6e29c4c04c8f/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Robert E. Lee]
Getty Museum · April 16, 1865

Ruins at City Point - After the Explosion
Getty Museum · 1864

Sheridan
Getty Museum · 1864

Sheridan and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864

Signal Tower
Getty Museum · 1864

Smith O'Brien
Getty Museum · about 1860
![[Teresa Carreño]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/b91dd4e0-a905-4b67-a387-7e5c3fddb357/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Teresa Carreño]
Getty Museum · about 1862

The Ambassador
Getty Museum · 1859

The Apparition
Getty Museum · 1859

The Council
Getty Museum · 1859
![[The Prince of Wales and Suite]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ee27d74b-5d31-42c0-8549-009b7edd9a81/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[The Prince of Wales and Suite]
Getty Museum · 1860

The War Path
Getty Museum · 1859

The Wedding Procession
Getty Museum · 1859
![Third Connecticut Regiment, Infantry, Camp Douglas, 1861/[Union Troops and Camp Followers]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d4dad693-0373-4100-9120-4f9523daa6e1/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Third Connecticut Regiment, Infantry, Camp Douglas, 1861/[Union Troops and Camp Followers]
Getty Museum · May 1861

Tomb of the Mother of Washington. Fredericksburg
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Unidentified bearded man]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/38ac8aac-f990-4b74-a865-3bf1c19859a5/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unidentified bearded man]
Getty Museum · 1861–1865
![[Unidentified long bearded man in profile]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5f553fff-dc79-4f8e-b9a1-ea639023d084/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unidentified long bearded man in profile]
Getty Museum · 1861–1865
![[Unidentified man in profile, printed in vignette-style]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/8d659edf-c98f-44c1-8906-814bedd0be47/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unidentified man in profile, printed in vignette-style]
Getty Museum · 1864–1866
![[Unidentified man, printed in vignette-style]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a6d79b1e-7f32-4998-bca8-ce02b28590ee/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unidentified man, printed in vignette-style]
Getty Museum · 1864–1866
![[Unidentified man with graying beard, no moustache, in profile, printed in vignette-style]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/359c6b7b-6d93-4018-875a-42200fe4bd52/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unidentified man with graying beard, no moustache, in profile, printed in vignette-style]
Getty Museum · 1864–1866
![[Unidentified Union Civil War general]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ff5d4d36-26af-4345-a127-0c1b378bcd4d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unidentified Union Civil War general]
Getty Museum · 1864–1866
![[Unidentified Union soldier, standing]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/48696e7f-c0af-4c40-9117-4f30f1323932/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Unidentified Union soldier, standing]
Getty Museum · 1861–1864
![[Walt Whitman]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/117976cf-03de-439e-b4be-9905411b4984/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Walt Whitman]
Getty Museum · about 1870

Warren and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864

White House Landing
Getty Museum · 1864
![Wilcox [sic] and Staff](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3027b0fa-acc2-45e1-a2ac-e82b434b224e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Wilcox [sic] and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
![Wilcox [sic] Landing](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/4de59a71-0fac-4395-b31b-21718096804c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Wilcox [sic] Landing
Getty Museum · 1864
![[William Tecumseh] Sherman (1820 - 1891)](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/6c39b9b1-b309-42b9-bc42-f32ea7f6f4ef/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[William Tecumseh] Sherman (1820 - 1891)
Getty Museum · about 1862

Wounded at Fredericksburg
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Wounded soldiers under trees, Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg. After the battle of Spotsylvania]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/211f5463-c63c-4d35-a719-930556efd412/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Wounded soldiers under trees, Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg. After the battle of Spotsylvania]
Getty Museum · 1864

Wright and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
![[Young girl standing with hand on table]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a85d7651-86da-49c0-931b-27f096eb9732/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Young girl standing with hand on table]
Getty Museum · about 1865