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7th Wisconsin Officers

Date: 1862
Description: Officers of Company I, 7th Wisconsin Infantry: (left to right) Lt. Joseph N.P. Bird, Captain George H. Walther, and Lt. Christopher Lefler. Their Black ser...
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Camp of the 7th Wisconsin

Date: 06 1862
Description: The 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment camp outside of Fredericksburg on the east side of the Rappahannock. Fredericksburg and a pontoon bridge lea...
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Lieutenant J.N.P. Bird and Troops

Date: 07 1862
Description: Lieutenant J.N.P. Bird, with newspaper, and Lieutenant Lefler, in front of Lieutenant Bird, with troops of the 7th Wisconsin Company I of the 7th Wisconsin...
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Monument to New Jersey's Fifteenth Regiment

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Description: View of a monument to New Jersey's Fifteenth Regiment on the site of a battlefield. The memorial was erected by the State of New Jersey and is surrounded b...
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Monument to Stonewall Jackson

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Description: View of a monument to Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863), American Civil War Confederate General. The memorial, erected in 1888, stands in a wooded area, surrou...
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Monument to Major General John Sedgwick

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Description: View of a monument on a battlefield to Major General John Sedgwick, killed in action on May 9, 1864. The memorial, erected in 1887 by veterans of Segdwick'...
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Cemetery

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Description: A view of monuments in a cemetery that stand on the ground of a once bloody battlefield. The monument of the left commemorates New York's 49th Infantry, an...
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Shiloh Baptist Church

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Description: Elevated view of the interior. The seating area contains curved pews that face the raised altar area. This is divided into two sections: the front area co...
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Sunken Road

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Description: A man steers a horse-drawn carriage down a sunken dirt road in a rural setting. Dwellings stand at right.
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Main Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia

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Description: View down Main Street. Men stand outside stores on either side of the street.
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President Monroe's Law Office

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Description: Exterior view of President Monroe's Law Office. Sign near entrance reads, "President of the United States and Author of the Monroe Doctrine Feb. 6, 1786 -...
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Statue of General Hugh Mercer

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Description: Bronze statue of Hugh Mercer (1726-1777), Physician and Brigadier General of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Mercer died of wound he rec...
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Apothecary Shop of General Hugh Mercer

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Description: Apothecary Shop of Hugh Mercer (1726-1777), soldier and physician during the Revolutionary War. Erected around 1760, the building was restored to provide m...
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Residence of Mary Washington

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Description: View of the modest home of Mary Washington (1708-1789), purchased by George Washington in 1772. The two-story residence features a front porch and is situ...
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Lucy House

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Description: Exterior view of Chatham, known as 'Lucy House' during war times. The imposing residence was built in 1730.
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Brompton

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Description: Exterior view of Brompton, built in 1836 by John Lawrence Marye. The house features a colonnaded porch and central stairway.
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Brompton at Marye's Heights

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Description: View of Brompton, built in 1836 by John Lawrence Marye. The house, found on wooded grounds, features a colonnaded porch.

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