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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. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Adelbert Ames, US Army veteran and Republican politician. Ames was a general in both the Civil War and the Spanish-American War.... |
| Date: | 02 07 1876 |
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| Description: | Centennial photograph of Old Abe, perched on a stars and stripes shield. The live war eagle was carried during the Civil War, by the 8th Wisconsin Voluntee... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Civil War portrait of Ulysses S. Grant seated wearing a military uniform. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Al-che-say, chief of the White Mountain Apache, and his war council. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord, a soldier, mathematician, and botanist. Alvord fought in the Seminole Wars with the 4th U.S. ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Pre-Civil War portrait of Lucius Fairchild wearing a hat. |
| Date: | 11 1863 |
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| Description: | Civil War General John C. Starkweather, center; Lt. Colonel George B. Bingham, left; and General Rufus King, right; all of the Iron Brigade. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Men from Wisconsin Rapids who bore arms against Spain in the Spanish-American War. From left to right in front of a painted backdrop are Charles N. Laramie... |
| Date: | 1812 |
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| Description: | Dagger from an American officer of the war of 1812. Renat was a member of the naval fleet of the Great Lakes which was under the command Oliver Hazard Perr... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | "Confederate Rest" in Forest Hill Cemetery where Confederate prisoners of war who died at Camp Randall are buried. In this early photograph, there is a woo... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Photographic calling card of George B. Merrick, Company A, 30th Wisconsin Infantry. Includes an embossed image of a Civil War medal on the left, with a fla... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18... |
| Date: | 06 1864 |
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| Description: | Civil War General Winfield Scott Hancock and division commanders, (standing left to right) Generals Barlow, Birney, and Gibbon (previously commander of the... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Freeman Vilas (1840-1908), Civil War and United States Senator, taken while he was a student at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | The locomotives "Christopher Adams" and "Liverpool," taken over and operated by the U.S. military during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype. Waist-up portrait of Leander S. Miller, facing forward. Corporal in Civil War uniform. Hand-coloring on cheeks, gold details... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of William H. Cheney (?) and Lyman Richardson. Half length portrait, seated, facing forward, wearing their Civil War uniforms... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the field where Pickett's charge took place during the Battle of Gettysburg. |
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