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Painting

Battle of Chickamauga, 1863

Date: 1925
Description: "Battle of Chickamauga," an oil painting depicting a dramatic moment in the Battle of Chickamauga, painted by Alfred Thorsen after the lithograph. "Charge ...
Photograph

The Union House Tavern

Date: 1900
Description: The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi...
Drawing

Gaddis Sketches

Date: 11 08 1906
Description: Two Civil War watercolor drawings by John Gaddis, Company E, 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, showing the regiment in bivouac, and later their headquarte...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

1st Wisconsin Cavalry Veterans

Date: 1902
Description: Newspaper page with a composite of portraits of the First Wisconsin Cavalry veterans from the Civil War who enlisted at Ripon, Wisconsin.
Print

Racine Civil War Veterans

Date: 1900
Description: "Racine County War Veterans Living and Dead." Composite of small oval head and shoulders portraits, consisting of about 100 Union soldiers, all identified....
Photograph

(First) Wisconsin Territorial Capitol

Date: 1931
Description: View of men standing on the lawn in front of the Wisconsin Territorial Capitol. They are standing near the monument of a shell of the Civil War period, rec...
Photograph

Civil War Shell

Date: 1931
Description: A shell of the Civil War period, recovered from the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and presented to the First Capitol State Park by the GAR...
Photograph

Memorial Day Parade

Date: 1902
Description: Grand Army of the Republic in Memorial Day Parade, on the north side of Main Street, between First and Water Streets. Iver Erickson's shoemaker shop is at ...
Photograph

Lansing Wilcox

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: Lansing Wilcox, 102-years of age, the last surviving Wisconsin veteran of the Grand Army of the Republic, is seated in a crowd of people attending a Wiscon...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Veteran Homer Snake

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing next to a chair, identified as Homer Snake, who is wearing a hat with a GAR emblem, signifyin...
Photograph

Elderly Ho-Chunk Man James Bird

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk man posing sitting. He is wearing a suit jacket, vest with watch fob, trousers, and a hat with a United ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Group in Regalia

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk women sitting in front of two Ho-Chunk men and a Ho-Chunk woman posing standing, all wearing regalia. The group is in front...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of John Hazen Hill

Date: 1910
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man with a beard posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. He is smoking a pipe and holding a cane in his left ...
Photograph

John Greencloud Standing in Field

Date: 1906
Description: Ho-Chunk man posing standing in a open field holding a flintlock gun. He is wearing garters, moccasins, a breech cloth, necklace, and feathers in his hair....
Photograph

James B. Pond

Date: 1903
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a bearded James B. Pond wearing eyeglasses and his Medal of Honor rosette.
Photograph

Armistice Day Ceremony at Capitol Square

Date: 11 11 1950
Description: Mrs. Minnie Wiese of 317 West Washington Avenue, representing the Grand Army of the Republic, places a wreath at the base of the cenotaph at the Armistice ...
Photograph

Shirley House

Date: 1900
Description: The famous "Shirley House" or "White House," stands near the Jackson Road, which was between the Union and Confederate entrenchments during the siege of Vi...
Photograph

Cave Entrance in Vicksburg

Date: 1902
Description: Cave in a hillside occupied by the Lewis family from May 18 to July 4, 1863, during the Civil War siege of Vicksburg. Hundreds of other caves in the vicin...
Photograph

Surrender Monument

Date: 1910
Description: Surrender Monument, where Generals Grant and Pemberton met to arrange terms for the surrender of Vicksburg, July 3, 1863. General Pemberton surrendered 31,...
Photograph

Edwin O. Kimberly

Date: 1900
Description: Photographic calling card of Colonel Edwin O. Kimberly. During the Civil War he was in the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry. It is noted on the card that he was the ...

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