Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar... |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Civil War handbill that reads: "Charleston Mercury Extra...The Union Is Dissolved!" |
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: | 04 23 1861 |
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Description: | Recruiting poster for the "Patriots of St. Croix" to "take up arms". |
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: | 1881 |
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Description: | Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). Born in Delaware, Ohio on October 4, 1822, he died on January 17, 1893 in Fremont, O... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Chester A. Arthur, the 21st President of the United States. Arthur was born on October 5, 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont, and di... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President of the United States, 1889-1893. Harrison was born on August 20, 1833, on a farm ne... |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | "Colonel B.J. Sweet's 21st Wisconsin Volunteer Regiments." Lithograph of the 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, on Parade at Camp Bragg (now Menom... |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | "Camp Casey near Fairfax Seminary, Virginia 1st Brigade, Casey's Division". Handcolored lithograph of site of Camp Casey. |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | "The Soldier's Dream of Home," a Currier and Ives lithograph, handcolored. |
Date: | 10 14 1861 |
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Description: | Engraving of Old Abe, mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Civil War Voluntary Infantry, displayed for a crowd. The eagle bearer holds Old Abe's staff perch while t... |
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.... |
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... |
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,... |
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