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Painting

Confederate Civil War Soldier

Date: 1886
Description: Oil on linen study of a Confederate Civil War sharpshooter aiming his rifle, created as a preliminary study for a Civil War cyclorama. Although unsigned t...
Photograph

Unidentified Civil War Soldier

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Description: Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified Civil War soldier standing and holding a rifle.
Poster

For Your Boy

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting a man in military uniform pouring coffee for a younger soldier, who is sitting with a rifle across his lap. There is a YMCA sign behind th...
Photograph

John Crossman

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Description: Seated carte-de-visite portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Crossman, Company C, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, sitting with a musket across his...
Photograph

Glass Bayou — Logan's Division Coming Into Action

Date: 1880
Description: A scene from a panoramic painting of Grant's assault on Vicksburg.
Photograph

Martin Shenk and Ryndert Van Loon

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite of Martin Shenk, holding a flag, and Ryndert Van Loon, holding a musket with bayonet attached. They are posed shaking hands in ...
Postcard

Battle of Atlanta — Cyclorama Building, Atlanta, Ga.

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Description: Color postcard of a section of the cyclorama painting "Battle of Atlanta" executed by painters under Wilhem Wehner in the 1880s. This scene shows the fight...
Print

Sheridan's Ride, an incident of the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia

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Description: "Sheridan's Ride, an incident of the Battle of Cedar Creek, Va." Lithograph after a painting by Thulstrup, printed by L. Prang & Company, Boston, 1886.
Photograph

Thomas Forbush

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Description: Three-quarter-length portrait of Thomas (Tom) Forbush, Company E, 61st Illinois Infantry, holding his musket. He was better known as a river pilot on the S...
Photograph

John Hodges

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Description: Tintype and hand-colored portrait of John Hodges (who lived in La Fayette), Company I, 28th Wisconsin Infantry, holding his musket. He enlisted on August 2...
Photograph

Old Abe and His Regiment Color Guard

Date: 07 1863
Description: Photograph of a monochrome painting of "Old Abe" the bald eagle mascot of the Eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and his regiment color guard. ...
Photograph

Torger Larson

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Description: Full-length cabinet card portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Torger Larson, a private in Company H, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform holding a mus...
Photograph

Russian Soldiers Group Portrait

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Description: Russian soldiers posing for a group portrait in front of a painted backdrop at a studio in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi).

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