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| 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: | 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: | 07 24 1862 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for the recruitment of volunteers from Grant County for the Union Army during the Civil War. |
| 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: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Engraving of portraits of Generals in the Union Army during the Civil War. U.S. Grant is in the center, with H.W. Halleck on his left, and clockwise from t... |
| 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: | 10 10 1861 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of a Revolutionary War soldier standing and holding up the American flag in his right hand, and holding a rifle in his left hand. A plow is behi... |
| Date: | 03 08 1869 |
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| Description: | Letterhead featuring a bust of General Grant surrounded by a wreath, the American flag, an eagle, a cannon and cannon balls, and other instruments of war. ... |
| 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: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Letterhead illustration of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the first casualty of the Civil War, under the caption "Remember Ellsworth!" Colonel Ellsworth was kill... |
| 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: | 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: | 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... |
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