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Book or Pamphlet

Iowa Regiment at Fort Donelson

Date: 03 15 1862
Description: Engraved Illustration for the story titled: "The Fight at Fort Donelson". The illustration shows the Second Iowa Volunteers regiment attacking Confederate ...
Painting

Wounded Civil War Soldier

Date: 1886
Description: Oil on linen study of a wounded Union Civil War soldier partially reclining on the ground created by one of the German panorama painters active in Milwauke...
Photograph

Scene of Gen. McPherson's Death

Date: 1866
Description: A clearing in some trees with an animal skull where Union General McPherson died.
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Photograph

Erik Larsen

Date: 1862
Description: Waist-up seated studio portrait of Erick Larsen [as written on Regimental and Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20 “Red Books” and in the Roster of Wisconsin Volun...
Drawing

A Battle as Seen by the Reserve

Date: 12 17 1862
Description: Illustration depicting a battle. In the foreground injured soldiers are gathered on and around the porch and yard of a house. In the background are columns...
Photograph

Where General Reynolds Was Killed

Date: 07 1863
Description: Stereograph of McPherson's Woods, where General John Reynolds, commanding the First Corps of which Wisconsin's 2nd, 6th, and 7th regiments were a part, was...
Manuscript

Fairchild Parole Document

Date: 07 02 1863
Description: Parole document issued to Colonel Lucius Fairchild of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg after being wounded on the first day...
Photograph

Lieutenant Albert T. Lamson

Date: 1863
Description: Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Lieutenant Albert Lamson, taken at Falmouth, Virginia. Lamson is posed, in military uniform, seated and holding a sword ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Spain's Victory of Peace" Article

Date: 02 17 1898
Description: An editorial article in the "New York Journal" written by William Randolph Hearst in the wake of the sinking of the "Maine."
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...
Print

Company C, 27th Regiment Roster

Date: 1862
Description: A commemorative roster of the Wisconsin Volunteers of Company C, 27th Regiment.
Book or Pamphlet

Rufus Dawes Diary Entry

Date: 07 01 1863
Description: A two page diary entry written at the Gettysburg battlefield by Rufus R. Dawes.
Manuscript

Gettysburg Casualty Tabulation

Date: 1863
Description: A Gettysburg battle casualty tabulation in Rufus Dawes' diary noting how many people were killed, wounded, and missing.

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