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 Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the general's tent; another view Petersburg, Virginia. Cock fighting at Gen. Orlando B. Willcox's headquarters This Confederate image invokes the spirit of liberty. Antietam, Maryland (vicinity). Maj. Allan Pinkerton, Secret Service Department and friends The cavalry was a specialized branch of the service that required skills in horsemanship. This poster eagerly recruits persons with such skills by promising them ready equipment and immediate payment.  Atlanta, Georgia. Sherman's men destroying railroad  Beaufort, South Carolina. Shooting party on J.J. Smith's plantation Mrs. Abraham Lincoln In inaugural gown  Washington, D.C. The four condemned conspirators (Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Herold, Atzerodt), with officers and others on the scaffold; guards on the wall