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Old Abe and the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 07 1863
Description: "Old Abe" and "Color Guard" of the Eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, posed in uniform, outside with Old Abe on a shield perch. Likely Edward H...
Photograph

Clearing Trenches

Date: 06 1917
Description: British troops clear German trenches that were destroyed in battle in the Messine Ridge, Flanders.
Print

General Grant

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Description: A portrait of General Grant surrounded with scenes of his life.
Photograph

Battle of Chattanooga, Storming of Missionary Ridge

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Description: The Battle of Chattanooga from the Milwaukee-based American Panoramic Company's cyclorama "The Storming of Missionary Ridge."
Photograph

Civil War "First Battle of Bull Run"

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Description: Steel engraving of the first major battle of the Civil War, fought in Virginia, near the Manassas, Virginia, railway junction, after which the battle is ca...
Photograph

Battle of Jarama

Date: 03 1937
Description: Men in a trench holding rifles.
Book or Pamphlet

Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg

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Description: A map of the second version of the Gettysburg cyclorama created by French artist Paul Philippoteaux, as taken from the souvenir booklet which sold for five...
Print

The Battle of Antietam

Date: 08 1862
Description: Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle.
Photograph

Grant's Assault on Vicksburg, McPherson's Corp in the Afternoon's Assault

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Description: A photograph of a scene from the panoramic painting "Grant's Assault on Vicksburg..."
Photograph

Glass Bayou — Logan's Division Coming Into Action

Date: 1880
Description: A scene from a panoramic painting of Grant's assault on Vicksburg.
Print

The Death of Colonel Heg at Chickamauga

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Description: A lithograph titled "Charge of the 15th Wisconsin Regiment at Chickamauga; death of Colonel Heg," showing the death of Hans Christian Heg.
Postcard

Battle of Atlanta — Cyclorama Building, Atlanta, Ga.

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Description: Color postcard of a section of the cyclorama painting "Battle of Atlanta" executed by painters under Wilhem Wehner in the 1880s. This scene shows the fight...
Print

The Final Charge at Winchester

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Description: Color lithograph of the final charge at Winchester.
Painting

Painting of 'The Charge of the New Market Cadets'

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Description: A painting of 'The Charge of the New Market Cadets' by West Clinedinst (Clinedienst). The work commemorates the Battle of New Market that took place on May...
Print

When Thus Our Hosts Go Proudly Forth, Let Foes Beware the Spirit of the North!

Date: 1860
Description: A youthful looking Zouave soldier has a knife in his right hand and the Union flag in his left. A battlefield with explosions is behind him. The verse bel...
Photograph

Old Abe and His Regiment Color Guard

Date: 07 1863
Description: Photograph of a monochrome painting of "Old Abe" the bald eagle mascot of the Eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and his regiment color guard. ...
Photograph

Robert Doyle in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two...
Poster

Za Naši Samostatnost!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a Czechoslovak soldier throttling a German soldier at night. They are illuminated by a flare, or perhaps a tracer round...
Poster

Boh do Krivdy Hromom

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a man with a musket and a handaxe charging at three fleeing soldiers, while red lightning flashes from dark storm cloud...
Poster

Women! Help America's Sons Win the War

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman reaching her hands towards the viewer. Behind her is an American flag, and behind it are various battle scenes....

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