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| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | One of the Confederate defenses around the city, with several cannons behind earthworks. A Union soldier stands near one of the cannons. Plate 40 |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View looking out from one of the Confederate defenses around the outside of the city. Wooden palisades surround the earthworks. Houses and other buildings ... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | An empty battlefield with posts sticking out from an earthworks in the foreground. Plate 37 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | The south bank of the Chattahoochie River with a bridge spanning it. In the foreground are some battlements. Plate 33 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | A fence or battlement, with battered trees overlooking a valley. Kenesaw Mountain is in the distance. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Earthworks in a field in foreground. In the middle distance is a small house with a fence. The Kenesaw Mountain is in the background. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Two men stand on either side of an opening in the earthworks at Allatoona Pass. Mountains are in the distance. Plate 28 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | View towards the Allatoona Pass from behind earthworks overlooking the Etawah River. A railroad bridge crosses the river on the right. Plate 24 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | View along earthworks overlooking the Etawah River and a railroad bridge. A tree stripped of branches and bark is on the left. Plate 23 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | View of earthworks at the battlefield at Resacca. Dirt roads cross the field in the distance, leading to a farm and what appears to be a river. Plate 22... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View down to valley of Union soldiers posing on the roof of a log building. A log bridge crosses a stream, and many trees are on the hillsides. Plate 05... |
| Date: | 1820 |
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| Description: | This map displays the plan for claiming various settlement zones in the Prairie des Chiens area in 1820. It shows Fort Crawford and 87 confirmed and unconf... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Landscape view of Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory from a nearby hill showing the Fort, the Mississippi river, the countryside, farm buildings and tipis.... |
| Date: | 1806 |
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| Description: | Prehistoric Indian fortification on Hurricane Creek. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of Wisconsin shows the counties in the state south and east of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers and the locations of Indian lands to the nor... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | A map of the Wisconsin and Iowa territories, with the surveyed counties of southern Wisconsin and eastern Iowa identified. The map shows the sectioning of ... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Map of Wisconsin and a portion of Minnesota showing the township surveys in progress in portions of the Saint Croix River region and in central Wisconsin a... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map showing portions of present-day Iron and Vilas counties north of the Manitowish River as part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Wi... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map showing portions of present-day Iron and Vilas counties north of the Manitowish River as part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Wi... |
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