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| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | View from a distance of Fort McPherson, built under the direction of Samuel Glyde Swain. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Three men standing at entrance of residence used as headquarters when S.G. Swain, (on left), was in charge of fortifications at Fort McPherson. All three m... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | View from distance of residence used as headquarters when S.G. Swain was in charge of fortifications at Fort McPherson. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Union gunboat "Prairie Bird," a small rear-wheel steamship. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Union gunboat "Fort Hindman," a small side-wheel steamship. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the side-wheel steamship "Thomas Powell," probably in southern waters. Industrial buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Libby Prison, a Confederate Prison. The view includes tents and three tenement (loft style) buildings. A group of men stand in the foregro... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A heavily retouched photographic view of Libby Prison. This view shows tents and three tenement (loft style) buildings. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the main building, a tenement (loft style) building, at Libby Prison. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of the Confederate prison Castle Thunder. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Fragment of the Andersonville Prison Stockade among overgrowth of trees. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of exterior of General Lee's residence. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of exterior of a building used as the Confederate government's Executive Mansion. This was where Jefferson Davis and his family stayed during t... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Union troops at Lawler Hall which was used as a U.S. military hospital during the Civil War. Originally built as the Brisbois Hotel in 1857, it was given f... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | The locomotives "Christopher Adams" and "Liverpool," taken over and operated by the U.S. military during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster listing officers and men, most notably Colonel Cadwallader C. Washburn. |
| 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: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of officials and employees of the Wisconsin state administration, who made up Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk's "one-armed and one-legged" staff o... |
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