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| Date: | 07 29 1812 |
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| Description: | A handwritten order to evacuate Ft. Dearborn. |
| Date: | 05 1863 |
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| Description: | Two pages, dated May 23-24, 1863, of a diary kept by H.H. (Henry Hamilton) Bennett during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 06 28 1863 |
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| Description: | A letter written by W.D. Bartlett to his cousin describing life as a Civil War soldier. |
| Date: | 07 01 1863 |
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| Description: | A two page diary entry written at the Gettysburg battlefield by Rufus R. Dawes. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A Gettysburg battle casualty tabulation in Rufus Dawes' diary noting how many people were killed, wounded, and missing. |
| Date: | 04 1862 |
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| Description: | Hand-tinted stationery showing the Capitol in Washington, D.C. in 1862. The blue tint on the dome may have been intended to represent the unfinished natur... |
| Date: | 08 20 1824 |
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| Description: | The front page of a letter writen by President Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Poster with decorative border and text of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln. |
| Date: | 07 14 1863 |
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| Description: | An account of the Battle of Gettysburg written in pencil in the diary of Rufus Dawes. |
| Date: | 07 12 1865 |
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| Description: | A letter written by Wisconsin Governor James T. Lewis to E.G. Ayer of Harvard, Illinois, thanking him for his special care of and attention to sick and wou... |
| Date: | 07 14 1865 |
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| Description: | The first page of a letter written by E.G. Ayer of Harvard, Illinois, to Wisconsin Governor James T. Lewis, in gratitude for the governor's thanks for cari... |
| Date: | 07 14 1865 |
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| Description: | The second page of a letter written by E.G. Ayer of Harvard, Illinois, to Wisconsin Governor James T. Lewis, in gratitude for the governor's thanks for car... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | This map is a hand-colored, pen and ink, drawing by Ole R. Dahl of Co. B, 15 Wisconsin Infantry shows the battlefield at Stones River, depicting roads, str... |
| Date: | 08 1871 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Photocopy of the hotel register at the De Pere House De Pere Wis from Friday August 4 to Tuesday August 8 1871. Among names to be noted are... |
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