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Jeremiah Rusk

Date: 1862
Description: Engraved portrait of Jeremiah Rusk, governor of Wisconsin and the first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
Photograph

Russell? Automatic Corn Reaper

Date: 1862
Description: Automatic Corn Reaper, most likely on display at the London Exhibition of 1862. A sign above the reaper suggests that the reaper may be "Russell's."
Drawing

Pencil Drawing of 104th Reg., New York Volunteers

Date: 1862
Description: A small amateur drawing of the camp, with surrounding terrain, occupied by the 104th Regiment, New York State Volunteers near Belle Plains, Virginia, durin...
Photograph

"Fort Hindman"

Date: 1862
Description: Union gunboat "Fort Hindman," a small side-wheel steamship.
Poster

War, War, War!!

Date: 1862
Description: Civil War Union Army recruitment poster.
Print

Notice. The Drafting Will Be Continued...

Date: 1862
Description: Civil War Union Army recruitment handbill.
Photograph

Miller Badger Boys, Company G. Second Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry

Date: 1862
Description: Lithographed poster listing officers and men, most notably Colonel Cadwallader C. Washburn.
Photograph

Erik Larsen

Date: 1862
Description: Waist-up seated studio portrait of Erick Larsen [as written on Regimental and Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20 “Red Books” and in the Roster of Wisconsin Volun...
Photograph

The Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 1862
Description: Composite photograph of the members of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Photograph

Governor Louis Harvey

Date: 1862
Description: Quarter plate ambrotype. Waist-up seated studio portrait of Governor Louis P. Harvey (1820-1862), facing front with torso turned slightly left.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Yazoo River

Date: 1862
Description: A hand-drawn map of the Yazoo River and vicinity.
Photograph

William Cowper Noyes

Date: 1862
Description: Ninth plate ferrotype/tintype of William Cowper Noyes as an infant. Son of William B. Noyes and Julia (Page) Noyes of Janesville. William died at the age o...
Photograph

Franklin Hoyt

Date: 1862
Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of Franklin Hoyt (1846-?). Waist-up portrait facing front, with left hand on his lapel. He is wearing a suit, small bow tie, and cap ...
Photograph

Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord

Date: 1862
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord, a soldier, mathematician, and botanist. Alvord fought in the Seminole Wars with the 4th U.S. ...

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