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Confederate Battle Flag of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment
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Battle flag of the Second Regiment Mississippi Volunteers captured together with much of the regiment by the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers at Gettysburg July 1, 1863. The photograph of the flag is pasted onto a transcribed official Report by Major Doubleday, Commander of the First Army Corps.
circa 1860-1869
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National Battle Flag of the 20th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
circa 1860-1869
Battle flag of the Twentieth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.
Battle Flag of Company F, known as the Belle City Rifles, 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
circa 1860-1869
Battle Flag of Company F, Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, the "Belle City Rifles."
Battle Flag of Company I, known as the Miners Guard, 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
circa 1860-1869
Miner's Guard Flag of Company I, Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry of the Iron Brigade carried during the Civil War. The flag was made by Mrs. George Cobb of Mineral Point, Wisconsin, and is owne...
Letter from E.G. Ayer
July 14, 1865
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 caring for Wisconsin soldiers.
