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| Description: | "Ferry 'New Era' being transformed into a gunboat at St. Louis." Drawing includes workers building with lumber. |
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| Description: | "Building rafts, or pontoons, upon which to mount huge mortars — for use on the river. Scene at St. Louis." Men are building on a pontoon with lumber. Ther... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | The USS "Benton" was an "ironclad" ship which served as Capt. Andrew Hull Foote's flagship during the March 1862 assault on Island No. 10. |
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| Description: | Hand-colored, vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Reverend Samuel Fellows, 49th Wisconsin Infantry. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Morgan L. Martin, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of a stuffed bald eagle, purportedly, Old Abe. There is a flag at the left and at the bottom is written "The Eagel [sic] o... |
| Date: | 10 24 1862 |
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| Description: | First page of a list of sick and wounded Wisconsin soldiers from the First Wisconsin Cavalry found at the Fifth St. Hospital in St. Louis by Cordelia Harve... |
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