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| Description: | A seated waist-up studio portrait of Ole K. Hanson, a sergeant in Company A, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform. The following information was obtained fr... |
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| Description: | A seated, waist-up studio portrait of Ole Steensland, a private in Company K, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform. The following information was obtained ... |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of Osmund Johnson as an older man, wearing his hat askew. He served in Company K of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. According to the... |
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| Description: | Tintype (ferrotype) portrait of Sergeant John O. Wraalstad, Company I of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Wisconsin's so-called Scandinavian Regiment... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Samuel Davis Sturgis, father of Nina Dousman. Born July 11, 1822 and died July 28, 1889. Samuel Sturgis graduated from West Point in the class of 1846 and... |
| Date: | 11 08 1906 |
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| Description: | Two Civil War watercolor drawings by John Gaddis, Company E, 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, showing the regiment in bivouac, and later their headquarte... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Kittle Jordee of Company H, 27th Wisconsin Infantry, holding a revolver. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the steamboat Golden Era, which did service during the Civil War, docked near buildings. It was sold to Michael Purcell of New Orle... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Group portrait made from a composite of 2 photoprints of Company I, first Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry. Standing in back: M.P. Stone, Hiram Gee. Next row: ... |
| 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Libby Prison at the Columbian Exposition. Several carts, horses in front of the building. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Old Abe, Wisconsin War Eagle, perched on a stars and stripe shield near a cannon at the Wisconsin State Capitol. There is a flag in the background. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Old Abe, Wisconsin War Eagle, perched on a stars and stripes shield next to a cannon at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Old Abe has his back turned towards t... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Old Abe, the eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry, posed on a cannon with the third Wisconsin State Capitol in the background. From 1864 until his de... |
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| Description: | Friedrich Holdmann of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War, astride his horse. Buildings are in the background. |
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