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| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | "Andersonville Prison, Camp Sumter, Ga., as it appeared August 1st 1864 when it contained 35,000 prisoners of war." |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | An overview of the national cemetery in Andersonville. |
| Date: | 12 1864 |
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| Description: | Andrew Gallup's commission in the 6th Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War. A certificate printed in black ink with a red seal of Wisconsin attached, ha... |
| Date: | 05 23 1863 |
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| Description: | Cartoon appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Page 144. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored th... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | "The Soldier's Dream of Home," a Currier and Ives lithograph, handcolored. |
| Date: | 02 26 1864 |
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| Description: | Engraved waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of General Robert E. Lee. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A freed slave with a hoe in his left hand and his right hand on his hip. Caption at the top reads, "Massa can't have dis chile, dat's what's de matter." Ca... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | The first national flag of the Confederacy (Stars and Bars) and the slogan: "We are in the field, and the bars are up!" Red and blue ink on cream envelope,... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Group of men engaged in a war dance. They hold spears, axes, and bows. (Plate 29) |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Piece of rope with one end tied in the form of a noose, depicting a skull. Caption below reads: "End of Secession." Blue ink, illustration on right side of... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A rope is tied in a noose inside of a frame. Caption reads: "Good Noose for TRAITORS." Black ink on yellow envelope, illustration is on left side. Mounted ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | The Confederate flag. Pro-Confederate envelopes were not as common as pro-Union envelopes. Black ink on beige envelope, image covers entire front. Image p... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Menominee war dance, as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited Green Bay, Wisconsin about 1838. This detail... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | "The Battle of the Reapers. The McCormick on the War Path!" Advertisement for McCormick Harvesting Machines reporting field trial victories. |
| Date: | 05 25 1864 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of a belt looped in a circle around interlocking letters reading: "USA." Text printed on the belt reads: "United We Stand, Divided We Fall." Ill... |
| Date: | 08 1862 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | "At the Spring," a woodcut illustration from McElroy's "Andersonville: Story of Southern Prisons." |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | An illustration of the Devil holding a pitchfork. The words: "THE DEVIL" are on his chest. Caption below reads: "THE FIRST SECESSIONIST." Black ink on beig... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Michael Corcoran. Caption below reads, "SONS OF ERIN!-Let the watchword be CORCORAN! RESCUED IF LIVING, AVENGED IF DEAD!" Black ink on beige en... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | The Confederate flag, upside down. Caption below reads, "A flag-itious article out of place." Blue and red ink on cream envelope, image in upper left corne... |
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