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Indians Fighting at Fort Mackenzie

Date: 08 28 1833
Description: Indians fighting at Fort Mackenzie (Montana).
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Spanish and French Battle

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1567.
Drawing

Fort Howard Drawing

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Description: View of a fort with fortified walls and a flag flying from the fort. A river runs on the right of the image. A boat with sails floats on the river. Sold...
Drawing

General Rosecranz / Battle at Corinth

Date: 10 03 1862
Description: "General Rosecranz and staff huredly [sic] erecting earthworks during the Battle at Corinth. The enemy driving in our lines." Men are on horses on a...
Drawing

Battle of Fort Donelson

Date: 02 15 1862
Description: "The 2nd and 7th Iowa and the 52nd Indiana headed by General Smith storming up the rebel works at Fort Donelson causing its surrender to General Grant the ...
Drawing

Magazine at Farmington

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Description: A magazine (storage, usually for ammunition) at Farmington near Grand Junction (Tennessee). Soldiers are working around a storage area dug into the raised ...
Painting

Fort Lincoln

Date: 1862
Description: Fort Lincoln, Kansas, when the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers arrived on their march from Fort Scott to Lawrence. A watercolor by John Gaddis of Company E.
Painting

Fort Shelby/Fort McKay

Date: 1823
Description: British evacuation of their fort at Prairie du Chien after the end of the War of 1812. Fort Shelby, the first fort at Prairie du Chien, was built in 1814 b...
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Siege of Vicksburg

Date: 1864
Description: "Siege of Vicksburg." An etching published by Johnson, Fry & Company from a painting by Chappel of the Union lines during the battle.
Photograph

Grant's Assault on Vicksburg, McPherson's Corp in the Afternoon's Assault

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Description: A photograph of a scene from the panoramic painting "Grant's Assault on Vicksburg..."
Photograph

McPherson's Corps in the Afternoon's Assault

Date: 1880
Description: "McPherson's Corps in the Afternoon's Assault." A scene from a panoramic painting of Grant's assault on Vicksburg.
Photograph

Large Guns and Men of a Military Installation

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men standing by large guns.
Photograph

Fort Jay

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Description: A view of artillery and guns at Fort Jay, built in 1794 to defend Upper New York Bay. The New York cityscape is across the bay.
Photograph

Camp Lewis

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Description: A man demonstrating trench shooting in a fortified ditch at Camp Lewis, built in 1917.
Poster

Sherman's Portable Fortification and Breast Work

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Description: An article discussing a new device to protect Union infantry from the enemy while they are advancing.
Book or Pamphlet

Iowa Regiment at Fort Donelson

Date: 03 15 1862
Description: Engraved Illustration for the story titled: "The Fight at Fort Donelson". The illustration shows the Second Iowa Volunteers regiment attacking Confederate ...
Photograph

Exterior View of Fort Sumpter

Date: 1866
Description: Exterior of Fort Sumter. A cannon has fallen on the steep shoreline and waves are hitting the rocks.
Plate 58
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Valentine Greetings

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Description: Valentine's Day card featuring a girl wearing a red uniform and a sword, standing on the roof of a fort. A boy in a tan uniform with a sword, is looking at...
Map or Atlas

Map of Rebel Batteries at Island No. 10

Date: 1862
Description: This map lists and depicts the positions of "the batteries on Kentucky shore" and the "batteries on Island No. 10." The 8th Wisconsin Infantry and 15th Wis...
Photograph

Soldiers and Officers in Gun Pit

Date: 01 22 1944
Description: Artillerymen of Battalion A are ready for an enemy attack in a gun pit, at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A knife is standing point dow...

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