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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Lucius Fairchild during his tenure as Secretary of State of Wisconsin. Fairchild's arm was amputated after he was injured at the Battl... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Civil War handbill that reads: "Charleston Mercury Extra...The Union Is Dissolved!" |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Hiram H. Herrick of the 36th Wisconsin Regiment in the Civil War. He enlisted from Middleton, Wisconsin, and was the father ... |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of an African American Civil War soldier from Hughes and Meltzer, "A pictorial History of the Negro in America." |
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| Description: | Two Black Civil War soldiers from Hughes and Metzer "Pictorial History of the Negro in America." |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Civil War portrait of Ulysses S. Grant seated wearing a military uniform. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Engraving of portraits of Generals in the Union Army during the Civil War. U.S. Grant is in the center, with H.W. Halleck on his left, and clockwise from t... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Union army officers. From left are: General U.S. Grant, General Rawlins, General Webster, Colonel Lagow, and Colonel Killyer take a break. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | The men in this tintype image were among 500 soldiers taken prisoner at Brentwood on March 25, 1863 and sent to Richmond. They were exchanged for Confedera... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for volunteers for the Civil War, claiming "Highest Bounty And Pay!". |
| Date: | 04 23 1861 |
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| Description: | Recruiting poster for the "Patriots of St. Croix" to "take up arms". |
| Date: | 07 24 1862 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for the recruitment of volunteers from Grant County for the Union Army during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Company C, Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Among the officers were Captain Gibson, Lieutenant Boothe, and Lieutenant Kellogg. |
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| Description: | Hand-lettered Civil War commemorative roster of Company D, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, known as the Stoughton Light Guard. The background is decor... |
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| Description: | The Civil War Room of the Historical Society Museum photographed sometime after 1900 when the society moved from third Wisconsin State Capitol to its new b... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Camp Randall Memorial Arch and Civil War cannons honor the Wisconsin Civil War soldiers on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The memorial was nam... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Camp Randall Memorial Arch and Civil War cannons. The memorial was built to honor Wisconsin Civil War soldiers and is located on the University of Wisconsi... |
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