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| Description: | An advertisement by the Smith Granite Company showing illustrations of various Gettysburg Battleground Memorials. |
| Date: | 05 1887 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin commission to locate monuments gather on the battlefield at Little Round Top. |
| Date: | 05 1916 |
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| Description: | A view looking down on the Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill, showing dancers around four different Maypoles. In the foreground is the Lincoln M... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill. Just visible at the top of the photograph is the new Wisconsin State Capitol, completed except for the north ... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Governor Lucius Fairchild of Wisconsin and an unidentified group visiting the still uncompleted national monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1869. Fair... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Surrender Monument, where Generals Grant and Pemberton met to arrange terms for the surrender of Vicksburg, July 3, 1863. General Pemberton surrendered 31,... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A small boy holding binoculars is sitting on the edge of Umbrella Rock, with a river far below. Below him is a plaque commemorating the Battle of Wauhatchi... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865. |
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| Description: | Postcard commemorating those who fought in the Civil War. "While above them floats 'Old Glory', Boon to all the world oppressed." |
| Date: | 04 20 1861 |
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| Description: | Elevated stereograph view of the Great Union Meeting at the New York City Union Square. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | The remains of President Lincoln lying in state in Monument Square and Pavilion. Lincoln's body was on its way from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illino... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cutler Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. The buildings shown behind the group, as well as the monument, are at the old Marathon County Jail and Sheri... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of Union veterans standing near a war memorial in a square downtown. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Washington and Lee University chapel showing tomb of Robert E. Lee. Portraits hang on the wall around an arch leading to the tomb. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Colored postcard view of crowd in front of the stand. Caption reads: "Human Confederate Flag." Text at top right reads: "And 'twill live in song and story.... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a monument in the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg. A man is standing at the base of the monument on the left. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | "Commands Honored" monument in the form of a large bronze book opened to pages reading "High Water Mark on the Rebellion" and "Repulse of Longstreet's Assa... |
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| Description: | Information about eight photographs detailing the seven Wisconsin monuments erected at the Gettysburg battlefield and the commission that placed them there... |
| Date: | 09 07 1917 |
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| Description: | Reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic at Camp Randall, members of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (the mostly Scandinavian unit commanded by Colo... |
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