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Antietam, Dunker Church

Date: 1890
Description: Site of the Battle to Antietam, The Dunker Church. A group of men stand among trees on the left. Horse-drawn carriages are under trees on the right.
Print

McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1894
Description: Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows an American Revolutionary War battle scene. Also...
Photograph

Ojibwa-Pillager Battle Barge

Date: 1898
Description: Cavalry on a barge are going from or returning to Bear Island at the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle at Sugar Point on Bear Island. There are buildings along the fa...
Drawing

Hospital Sketch

Date: 
Description: "Hospital and (indecipherable) during the last days battle at Fort Donelson on the Tennessee." Building with people and several trees.
Photograph

Battle of Gettysburg Miniature

Date: 03 12 1972
Description: Display in miniature of the Battle of Gettysburg, which was on exhibit in the Wisconsin State Capitol's Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall.
Photograph

Fort Sumter after Bombardment

Date: 04 15 1861
Description: Fort Sumter after bombardment by the Confederates.
Print

Gettysburg

Date: 
Description: Engraving excerpted from John S.C. Abbott's History of the Civil War in America.
Photograph

Ruins of a Home

Date: 1870
Description: Men clear the ruins of a home after the Battle Above the Clouds.
Map or Atlas

Map Illustrating the Siege of Atlanta, Georgia, by the United States Forces Under Command of Maj. Genl. W.T. Sherman

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Description: This detailed map shows fortifications, headquarters, location and dates of battles, street outline of Atlanta, roads, railroads, vegetation, drainage, rel...
Photograph

Customs Building in Sabac

Date: 1914
Description: Slightly elevated view of soldiers and civilians near the damaged Customs Building. Broken furniture and rubble is piled in front of the building. There ar...
Photograph

Austrian Soldiers Shoot at an Airplane

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers shooting at an airplane somewhere in Galicia.
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Austrian Artillerymen

Date: 1915
Description: Distributing gifts to Austrian artillerymen in Galicia during a fire mission. Several soldiers are wearing snow shirts over the uniforms for camouflage.
Drawing

Third Fight with the Iroquois

Date: 1615
Description: Illustration of the Huron Indians and French explorers attacking an Iroquois fort near present day Fenner, New York. A wooden platform was constructed to f...
Photograph

Building Model Trenches

Date: 1914
Description: A view of model trenches, built in Berlin by convalescing German soldiers. These were used both for training and for exhibition.
Photograph

Austrian Soldiers in Skirmish Trench

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers in Dunajec, Poland.
Photograph

Battlefield in Galicia

Date: 
Description: Austrian infantry on the battlefield in Galicia.
Photograph

In a Skirmish Trench on the Nida River

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian troops in a trench line on the Nida River in Poland.
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Skirmish Trench on the Nida River

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian troops in a trench line on the Nida River in Poland.
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Fighting on the Dunajec River

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Description: Soldiers fighting on the Dunajec River. The order for the attack has been given.
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Trench Warfare Against the Russians

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Description: In battle with the Russians.

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