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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Civil War handbill that reads: "Charleston Mercury Extra...The Union Is Dissolved!" |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Aerial view, probably from a lithograph, of the prison for Confederate soldiers at Rock Island. |
| Date: | 08 02 1862 |
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| Description: | Civil War Union Army recruitment poster. |
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| Description: | The text of the famous speech by Abraham Lincoln with an oval portrait. The oval around the portrait is embossed. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A Zouave fireman spraying a person in bed clothes in the face with a fire hose. Smoke is billowing in the background. Caption below reads, "A Fireman Zouav... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Four Union soldiers chasing four Confederate soldiers. The Union soldiers have a Union flag, a cannon and rifles with bayonets. The four Confederate soldie... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Michael Corcoran. Caption below reads, "SONS OF ERIN!-Let the watchword be CORCORAN! RESCUED IF LIVING, AVENGED IF DEAD!" Black ink on beige en... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a red shirt and a blue blouse with seven white stars, presumably Virginia, is shooting herself with a cannon that is marked "SECESSION." Ca... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia, holding a Union flag with a liberty cap on the pole is leaning on the California state seal, with a Confederate flag under her foot. The tex... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Two hands shaking with the Constitution, Union flag, battle ax and stars in the background. Caption below reads, "Our Union Forever." Red and blue ink on b... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | George Washington on the left holds the American Revolutionary flag with the date "1776" on it, and a Union Zouave soldier on the right holds a Union flag ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | An American Eagle holding a banner that says "PLURIBUS UNUM" hovers over a globe of the Earth showing the United States. The bottom half of the globe is hi... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A soldier in an eastern style Zouave uniform holds a Union flag in his right hand and a rifle in his left hand. Above reads "TO RICHMOND" and below "REMEMB... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A donkey (ass) labeled "SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY," with a Confederate flag tied to his tail, is pulling against the post to which it is tied. The post is label... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | The Confederate flag. Pro-Confederate envelopes were not as common as pro-Union envelopes. Black ink on beige envelope, image covers entire front. Image p... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Union envelope. At the top two flags face each other with a shield in the center on a blue background with white stars. A blue border with white stars fram... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A rare "risque" (for the time) design. A row of soldiers look away from their officer at a young lady as she lifts her skirts to step over a puddle, exposi... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Envelope compares a young man of the North, on the left, to a young man of the South, on the right. The young Northern man is working with an older man on ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia stands on the left, she holds the Wisconsin state seal in her left hand and a Union flag in her right. A liberty cap on a pole leans on the s... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Martha Washington appears inside an oval frame, the American flag wraps around the frame on the left side. Over her head in white it reads, "... |
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