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Knudt Johnson

Date: 1865
Description: Tintype/ferrotype waist-up portrait of Knudt Johnson of the Dodgeville Guards, later known as Company C, 12th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Gold ...
Photograph

Arthur MacArthur, Jr.

Date: 1865
Description: Studio portrait of young Lieutenant Colonel Arthur MacArthur Jr., F & S, 24th Wisconsin Infantry, posing in a Civil War uniform next to a chair.
Photograph

Group Portrait of Company I, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry

Date: 1865
Description: Group portrait made from a composite of 2 photoprints of Company I, first Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry. Standing in back: M.P. Stone, Hiram Gee. Next row: ...
Photograph

Horace Greeley with the Union Army

Date: 1865
Description: Horace Greeley, wearing top hat, with soldiers at the Union Army Winter Quarters.
Photograph

Cooks in a Civil War Army Camp

Date: 1865
Description: Two men cook at griddles while another leans on an open door to one of many tents at a Civil War army camp.
Poster

Camp Asylum

Date: 1865
Description: Detail (central image) of "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers" showing Camp Asylum in South Carolina.
Photograph

Jane Jennings

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Jennings, a Civil War nurse. She was raised in rural Green County, Wisconsin, and when her brother Guilford Jen...
Photograph

Officers of the 43rd Wisconsin Infantry

Date: 1865
Description: Officers of the 43rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with Colonel Amasa Cobb seated at the center. It is likely this picture was taken when the field and sta...
Drawing

Plan for Camp Randall Post Hospital

Date: 1865
Description: Plan and elevation of the post hospital at Camp Randall.
Drawing

Plan of Camp Randall

Date: 1865
Description: Plan of Camp Randall.
Photograph

Brisbois Hotel

Date: 1865
Description: View across open grounds towards the Brisbois Hotel, built in the early 1860's, and used as a hospital during the Civil War. It was later part of Campion H...
Photograph

Dr. John Maynard Woodworth, Physician

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. John Maynard Woodworth (1837-1879), American physician and naturalist. In 1871, Woodworth became the first Surgeo...
Photograph

Manning Ferguson Force, Army Commander

Date: 1865
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Manning Ferguson Force (1824-1899), U.S. Army Commander. Force led the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Un...
Print

Governor James T. Lewis

Date: 1865
Description: Engraved portrait of Wisconsin Governor James Lewis. Lewis' signature is below the engraving, and underneath the signature is printed: "Governor of Wiscons...
Photograph

Interior of Fort Sumter

Date: 1865
Description: Interior of Fort Sumter.
Photograph

Cassius Fairchild

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Cassius Fairchild, F & S, 16th Wisconsin Infantry.
Photograph

Cassius Fairchild

Date: 1865
Description: Three-quarter length carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Cassius Fairchild, F & S, 16th Wisconsin Infantry, wearing his full uniform.
Photograph

Cassius Fairchild

Date: 1865
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Cassius Fairchild, F & S, 16th Wisconsin Infantry.
Drawing

The Siege of Petersburg

Date: 1865
Description: The siege of Petersburg, VA, April 2-9, 1965. From a sketch by James Kiness.
Photograph

Fort McPherson

Date: 1865
Description: View from a distance of Fort McPherson, built under the direction of Samuel Glyde Swain.

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