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| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Civil War fortification Fort Harrison showing embrasures and parapets of casemates. |
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| Description: | A granite stone behind a low fence commemorating the Black Hawk War. Text on front of card reads: "Black Hawk War Monument Erected by Fort Atkinson D.A.R.,... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon illustration of six long lines of men marching into a factory. Poster text reads: "Success in War — depends on co-operation and ... |
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| Description: | The plateau of Lavarone was located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | This map created during the Civil War indicates Confederate fortifications, houses, names of residents, towns, roads, railroads, relief by hachures, draina... |
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| Description: | Exterior of Fort Donelson with landscape including sparse buildings and trees. |
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| Description: | Drawing of a soldier holding a cup, standing next to his bunk at Fort Holt. Civil War firearms are in the closet on the right. Another man is in the backgr... |
| Date: | 04 1862 |
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| Description: | Stationery depicting the fortifications around Washington, D.C., during the second year of the Civil War: Arlington Heights, directly across the Potomac Ri... |
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| Description: | Cavern built into the mountain on the Lavarone plateau. The plateau of Lavarone was located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy. |
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| Description: | Drawing of a section of a completed part of Fort Cairo facing the confluen [sic] of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. |
| Date: | 04 1862 |
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| Description: | Notes include: Sketch of Battle of Island #10. Sketch of Fort Pillow Tennessee. Gen. Pope had command of the land troops. |
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| Description: | A magazine (storage, usually for ammunition) at Farmington near Grand Junction (Tennessee). Soldiers are working around a storage area dug into the raised ... |
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| Description: | "Hospital and (indecipherable) during the last days battle at Fort Donelson on the Tennessee." Building with people and several trees. |
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| Description: | Preliminary sketch for "Fort Pillow upon the Eve of the Evacuation by the Rebels". |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers at Fort Leavenworth learn about trench work, an important skill for World War I combat. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A view of model trenches, built in Berlin by convalescing German soldiers. These were used both for training and for exhibition. |
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