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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Battery C, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman, shown here after the battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain.... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Nine men arrive at Fort William by canoe. Fort William, also called Kaministiguia, was the Hudson's Bay fur trading post. Men are standing along the opposi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832. |
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| Description: | Diorama in the Milwaukee Public Museum depicting Black Hawk's surrender on August 27, 1832 at Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien. |
| Date: | 09 10 1875 |
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| Description: | View looking west across the area once occupied by Camp Randall during the Civil War and towards the Breese Stevens farm property. The Madison Centennial ... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | View of five soldiers rowing in a boat, beside a dock, with another soldier standing on the dock. The fort is in the background, complete with the fortifie... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford ruins. This image may be even earlier than 1875; by the 1880's almost nothing was left of the actual fort compound buildings. Men are sitting... |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers at Fort Leavenworth learn about trench work, an important skill for World War I combat. |
| Date: | 07 17 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, in training for trench construction. Victor Morris of Milwaukee, in whose wartime album this photograph appears,... |
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| Description: | Barbed wire training under Lt. Johnson. An unusual nighttime photograph from the Victor Morris album, at Camp Custer. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man drives an International Harvester Scout past military vehicles on display near the entrance to Fort Stewart. |
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| Description: | A view of Dorchester Fort, overrun with plants and trees. There is a man in the front seat of a carriage visible through a break in the wall. |
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| Description: | An illustrated view of Fort Union (on the North Dakota-Montana boundary), with an Indian encampment. |
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| Description: | A photograph of a scene from the panoramic painting "Grant's Assault on Vicksburg..." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | "McPherson's Corps in the Afternoon's Assault." A scene from a panoramic painting of Grant's assault on Vicksburg. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A scene from a panoramic painting of Grant's assault on Vicksburg. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Historic re-creation painting of two Pilgrims approaching an old fort converted into their first meeting house. Painted by W.L. Williams. |
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