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| 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: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Map of portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota between Lake Superior and Mississippi River, showing railroads and military road. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | These detailed topographical maps of the Battle of Gettysburg show drainage, vegetation, roads, railroads, fences, houses with names of residents, and a de... |
| Date: | 10 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers pose on a wrecked French locomotive in Folligny, France. Names, (left to right) are Switchman Private First Class Kenneth Walters of St. Paul,... |
| Date: | 12 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu from the Christmas program at the headquarters of the Military Railway Service at Fort Snelling, with a three-quarter view of the buil... |
| Date: | 03 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu listing from the Villa Ferrovieri in Italy with the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific (CMSP&P) logo printed in red ink on the cover... |
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| Description: | The hospital train of Count Karolyi being inspected by Freiherr Scheffer-Boyadel while being accompanied by Count Anton Karolyi. |
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| Description: | Skiernewize (Skierniewice). Arrival of Russian deserters. |
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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: | German train shipping hay to the front in East Prussia. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Necessary work in enemy territory. Austrian engineers laying rails for a roadbed to make the transport of provisions easier. |
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