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LBJ Meets the Wounded

Date: 05 23 1966
Description: On a surprise visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital, President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with John R. Kington, a Marine wounded in Vietnam. In the next bed is...
Manuscript

Petition to President Lincoln

Date: 1864
Description: Petition to President Abraham Lincoln for the establishment of soldiers homes and hospitals in Wisconsin. The petition is signed by 18 women.
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Fresh Casualty

Date: 1945
Description: Marine corporal with his arm in a sling after being shot in the upper arm at Iwo Jima. Another wounded soldier sits beside him with a bandage on his head.
Manuscript

List of Sick and Wounded Soldiers

Date: 10 24 1862
Description: First page of a list of sick and wounded Wisconsin soldiers from the First Wisconsin Cavalry found at the Fifth St. Hospital in St. Louis by Cordelia Harve...
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Lt. Harry Humphreys Entertaining Soldiers

Date: 10 08 1918
Description: Lieutenant Harry Humphreys, A.R.C. entertaining wounded men in Ward K of American Evacuation Hospital #114, Fleury-sur-Aire, France. Miss Grace Van Wormer,...

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