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| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States, 1849-1850. Born in Virginia on November 24, 1784, Taylor died in office on July 9, 185... |
| Date: | 10 03 1862 |
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| Description: | "Combined Confederate attack upon [Batteries] Robinette and Davis the attack on Battery Robinette being defeated and that on Davis resulting in the defeat ... |
| Date: | 07 28 1862 |
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| Description: | The alarm at Humboldt, Tennessee, July 28th, 1862. A watercolor by John Gaddis of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers Company E. |
| Date: | 11 12 1862 |
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| Description: | Watercolor of a skirmish between the 7th Kansas Cavalry, Company A of the 12th Wisconsin Infantry, & Jackson's Rebel Cavalry near Lamar, Mississippi. |
| Date: | 01 07 1855 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the defeat of General Braddock during an ambush in the French and Indian War. Caption reads: "Defeat of General Braddock, in the French and India... |
| Date: | 08 01 1866 |
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| Description: | Army commission for William H. Upham in the Fifth Wisconsin Artillery dated June 18, 1866, and signed by Andrew Johnson and Edwin M. Stanton on August 1, 1... |
| Date: | 1814 |
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| Description: | Scale: about 43 miles to 1 in. Boundaries colored. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Map reads "Our Country" which is accompanied by a sailor with a flag to the left and workers rejoicing under the Constitution and Laws to the right. Across... |
| Date: | 07 16 1864 |
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| Description: | Illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper depicting Admiral Porter's fleet passing through Colonel Bailey's dam during the War on Red R... |
| Date: | 08 22 1862 |
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| Description: | A call to arms issued by Confederate colonel John H. Morgan, asserting that the Confederacy is winning the war. He mentions George B. McClellan, Thomas J. ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | An old woman, stooped over and holding a cane, has Union soldiers ("NORTH" on the left) and Confederate soldiers ("SOUTH" on the right) climbing ladders to... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Title page of "The Soldier Bird!" — History of "Old Abe" the live war eagle. |
| Date: | 04 1884 |
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| Description: | An engraving depicting the impressment of American seamen by the British Navy during the period before the War of 1812. The image shows a group of American... |
| Date: | 07 02 1813 |
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| Description: | A handbill circulated by Governor Meigs and General McArthur of Ohio in an effort to recruit men into the local militia. Men were needed to serve against t... |
| Date: | 02 13 1815 |
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| Description: | Newspaper article declaring peace between the United States and Great Britain at the end of the War of 1812. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of a painting of General Josiah Harmar. General Harmar fought for the United States against Native Americans in the 1780's and ... |
| Leader and warrior of the Sauk Indians |
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| Biography of Black Hawk |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Pocket knife found on the corpse of Wisconsin Governor Louis P. Harvey after he drowned in the Tennessee River on April 19, 1862. (Museum object #1969.4) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Fragment of six-pound cannonball fired in battle between American and British forces on July 1814 at Prairie du Chien, Illinois Territory (now Wisconsin). |
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