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| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Two men cook at griddles while another leans on an open door to one of many tents at a Civil War army camp. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | "The Soldier's Home, the Vision," a Currier and Ives lithograph, handcolored. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers: Scenes from life as a prisoner of war, with explanations--sketched by Lieut. & Top Eng'r O.R. Dahl, 15th Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Handbill issued by E.B. McCagg, President of the N.W. Sanitary Commission, urging citizens to plant potatoes and onions to be divided, and to put up dried ... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of the banquet hall for the 28th National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. A man stands on the far right. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A cat, labeled "MISSOURI," is tasting soup from a steaming kettle over a wood fire. The kettle is labeled: "SECESSION SOUP." The cat is wearing a vest, apr... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A crop of hemp on the left is feeding through a spinning wheel with the words: "HEMP FOR TRAITORS NORTH OR SOUTH" on it, and then to a gallows with a noose... |
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| Description: | View of a room filled with portraits and relics from the Civil War. A piano is placed below a window across the room, and the walls are lined with framed p... |
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| Description: | Display containing china and silver owned by Barbara Fritchie (1766-1862), a heroine who defied General Stonewall Jackson and the invading troops. Sign at ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A woman is washing clothes in a washtub. The caption below reads "My only support—both boys gone to the war. I wonder if they would take me?" Red ink on be... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of the banquet hall for the 28th National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. A man is standing on the far right. |
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| Description: | Old Abe covered glass bowl made by the Crystal Glass Company of Bridgeport, Ohio. Exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 where the ... |
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| Description: | Old Abe covered glass compote made by the Crystal Glass Company of Bridgeport, Ohio. Exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 where ... |
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| Description: | Wood engraving advertisement of a souvenir teaspoon bearing the likeness of Old Abe, the Wisconsin Civil War eagle, on the handle. Text reads "For sale by... |
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