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| Date: | 05 1864 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of Camp Randall, where the majority of Wisconsin's soldiers were trained and mustered into the Union Army. This view, which was taken from Basc... |
| Date: | 07 16 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the departure of the drafted soldiers at the Menomonie railroad station, with a crowd present to see them off. |
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| Description: | Color postcard view of the railroad locomotive used in a famous Civil War incident, which was later retold in Buster Keaton's motion picture The General... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | The locomotives "Christopher Adams" and "Liverpool," taken over and operated by the U.S. military during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | General Hood ordered a train full of gunpowder set on fire so that the Union Army couldn't use it, resulting in a series of explosions Plate 44 |
| Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
| Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
| Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Five railroad soldiers pose on a locomotive near the roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. From Wisconsin are, (top) Se... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A Serbian freight train with provisions that had been bombarded by the Austrians and later burned completely. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers repairing railroad tracks in Serbia during World War I. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian Soldiers detraining in the City of Ruma, located in the Province of Syrmien. These soldiers are massing for the invasion of Serbia in 1915. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people gathered on a road. There are railroad tracks alongside the road on the left. Our Bavarians in the Vosges. The welcome sutler wagon... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people gathered on a road. There are railroad tracks alongside the road on the left. Our Bavarians in the Vosges. The welcome sutler wagon... |
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| Description: | Captured Russian artillery limbers and ammunition carts. Aftermath of the Battle of Tannenberg. |
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| Description: | Captured Russian artillery limbers and ammunition carts. Aftermath of the Battle of Tannenberg. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | The first neutral train carrying returning refugees is pulling into the Merxen station in Antwerp. Soldiers are posing in front of the engine. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of the neutral train entering Merxen (Merskem), near Antwerp, bringing refugees from Holland. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Dutch officials and German soldiers in front of the locomotive pulling the train returning Belgian refugees from Holland. |
| Date: | 06 03 1918 |
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| Description: | A truck frame for army use is set up on blocks in the yard at McCormick Works. The frame would be covered with a tarp. In the background are railroad track... |
| Date: | 06 03 1918 |
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| Description: | A truck frame for army use is set up on blocks in the yard at McCormick Works. The frame would be covered with a tarp. Railroad tracks and stacks of lumber... |
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