Date: | 06 28 1865 |
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Description: | The Great Fair held at Milwaukee for the benefit of the Wisconsin Soldiers Home. The 130x130 foot building was constructed especially for the ten-day fair.... |
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Description: | Engraved portrait of Brigadier General Halbert Eleazer Paine. |
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Description: | Engraved portrait of Hon. Halbert Eleazer Paine, "representative from Wisconsin". |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Birds-eye view of a Wisconsin Civil War regiment on parade in Fond du Lac, as drawn by Louis Kurz from the Marr Street Methodist Church. The regiment canno... |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | Engraved portrait of Wisconsin Governor James Lewis. Lewis' signature is below the engraving, and underneath the signature is printed: "Governor of Wiscons... |
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Description: | Engraved portrait of Carl Schurz, a German immigrant who settled in Wisconsin in 1855. President Abraham Lincoln appointed Schurz to the rank of general in... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | A damaged Republican Party ticket for the Racine County Wisconsin slate headed by Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Also of note on the ticket is Congre... |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | An Unconditional Union ticket printed in Indiana in 1864 in support of the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. The support for Lincoln's prose... |
Date: | 05 23 1863 |
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Description: | Cartoon appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Page 144. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored th... |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | The first national flag of the Confederacy (Stars and Bars) and the slogan: "We are in the field, and the bars are up!" Red and blue ink on cream envelope,... |
Date: | 08 1862 |
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Description: | Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle. |
Date: | 07 1861 |
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Description: | Etching of a battle scene during the retreat from Manassas. Originally published by Virtue & Company Publishers of New York. |
Date: | 07 21 1861 |
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Description: | Depiction of the battlefield. Engraved by J.C. McRae and drawn by W. Momberger. |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Etching depicting the Battle of Shiloh, Tenn. |
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Description: | A large color lithograph with caption of the battle in progress. |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | "Siege of Vicksburg." An etching published by Johnson, Fry & Company from a painting by Chappel of the Union lines during the battle. |
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Description: | A large lithograph showing the landscape, camps and bombardment. |
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Description: | An etching of a Southern woman praying in a Vicksburg casement during the siege. Copied from "Confederate War Etchings" by A. Volck. |
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Description: | Engraving excerpted from John S.C. Abbott's History of the Civil War in America. |
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