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Drawing

Camp of the 15th Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 1862
Description: Sketch of the camp of the 15th Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry on Island No. 10 during the Civil War. Colonel Hans Christian Heg commanded the...
Print

Camp Randall

Date: 1861
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...
Photograph

Friedrich Holdmann on Horseback

Date: 
Description: Friedrich Holdmann of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War, astride his horse. Buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Battle of Gettysburg Panorama #1736

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph from the Chicago Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg Representing Pickett's Charge at 4 P.M., July 3rd, 1863: 1st Headquarters of General Geor...
Photograph

Battle of Missionary Ridge Panorama #1753

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph from the Panorama of the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Confederate General Braxton Bragg's Headquarters, painted in 1885. It was painted by Eugen...
Poster

Camp Asylum

Date: 1865
Description: Detail (central image) of "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers" showing Camp Asylum in South Carolina.
Drawing

Battle of Corinth

Date: 10 03 1862
Description: "Combined Confederate attack upon [Batteries] Robinette and Davis the attack on Battery Robinette being defeated and that on Davis resulting in the defeat ...
Drawing

Hospital Sketch

Date: 
Description: "Hospital and (indecipherable) during the last days battle at Fort Donelson on the Tennessee." Building with people and several trees.
Photograph

4th Maine Battery

Date: 04 20 1864
Description: The 4th Maine artillery battery posed in front of a large building.
Photograph

Unidentified Camp Scene

Date: 
Description: An unidentified Civil War camp scene with raised rails.
Painting

Fort Lincoln

Date: 1862
Description: Fort Lincoln, Kansas, when the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers arrived on their march from Fort Scott to Lawrence. A watercolor by John Gaddis of Company E.
Painting

Camp Randall, from the N. E.

Date: 1862
Description: 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 i...
Drawing

Plan of Camp Randall

Date: 1865
Description: Plan of Camp Randall.
Postcard

Soldiers' Monument

Date: 1905
Description: A memorial for Civil War soldiers and sailors. Caption reads: "Janesville, Wis. Soldiers Monument."
Photograph

Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall

Date: 01 18 1970
Description: Exterior view of the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall, 118 Monona Avenue, (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard as of January 19, 1987). The bui...
Photograph

Fort Sumter after Bombardment

Date: 04 15 1861
Description: Fort Sumter after bombardment by the Confederates.
Postcard

Fort Sumter

Date: 1905
Description: View across water of Fort Sumter.
Photograph

Fort Sumter

Date: 1861
Description: Stereograph of exterior of Fort Sumter.
Postcard

Fort Sumter

Date: 1915
Description: View across water toward Fort Sumter. Caption reads: "Fort Sumter, Charleston, S. C."
Photograph

General John H. King's Headquarters

Date: 1864
Description: General John H. King's headquarters while troops under his command occupied the site in 1864-1865. General King did not participate in the Battle of Lookou...

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