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Camp Randall
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Lithograph of Camp Randall, where the majority of Wisconsin's soldiers were trained and mustered into the Union Army. This view, which was taken from Bascom Hill looking southwest, shows a railroad track in the foreground which followed the route along University Avenue still used today. Inside the fenced enclosure are barracks, the prison yard and guard house, officers quarters, stables, and (the large building on the right) a hospital.
May 1864
Kurz, Louis, 1833-1921
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Camp Randall, from the N. E.
1862
Photograph of a watercolor of a view of Camp Randall, from the northeast. Scene set on rolling hills, shows tents, buildings, horses and military members in formation. Numbered captions at bottom r...
Camp Randall
1862
Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a military camp to train volunteer soldiers followi...
Juneau Park
Train station in the distance, with a man standing in the foreground on steps leading down to the lake, near a fenced-in pond. On the left are railroad trains and tracks near the depot, and Lake Mi...
Train Derailment
February 1, 1959
"Train derailment. Photo taken from North Pole Road. Hwy 28 can be seen in the distance (left)."
Camp Randall Barracks
April 18, 1931
Barracks at Camp Randall at the end of W. Johnson Street, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
U.S. Army Barracks
1918
A group of barracks near railroad tracks with snow in the ditch. On the far right three soldiers are walking along the railroad tracks, and other men are near the barracks.
