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Military Band at Lookout Mountain

Date: 1864
Description: Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background.
Drawing

Gaddis Sketches

Date: 11 08 1906
Description: Two Civil War watercolor drawings by John Gaddis, Company E, 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, showing the regiment in bivouac, and later their headquarte...
Photograph

Steamboat Golden Era

Date: 1863
Description: Elevated view of the steamboat Golden Era, which did service during the Civil War, docked near buildings. It was sold to Michael Purcell of New Orle...
Photograph

Soldiers' Orphans' Home/Monona Academy

Date: 1877
Description: This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel...
Photograph

22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers

Date: 09 22 1862
Description: The 22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers under the command of Colonel William L. Utley, crossing the pontoon bridge at Cincinnati.
Drawing

Gunboat on Ohio River

Date: 03 13 1862
Description: View down railroad tracks of the gunboat "Cinncinati" guarding Union approaches to Cairo on the Ohio River.
Drawing

Fort Cairo

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Description: Drawing of a section of a completed part of Fort Cairo facing the confluen [sic] of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
Drawing

Ferry "New Era"

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Description: "Ferry 'New Era' being transformed into a gunboat at St. Louis." Drawing includes workers building with lumber.
Drawing

Building Pontoons to Mount Mortars

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Description: "Building rafts, or pontoons, upon which to mount huge mortars — for use on the river. Scene at St. Louis." Men are building on a pontoon with lumber. Ther...
Drawing

Hamburg Landing

Date: 05 1862
Description: "Hamburg Landing, 4 miles below Pittsburg Landing, Commisary [sic] Depot of Gen. Hallek's Army." An encampment with soldiers along the river with a ...
Drawing

Man and Woman and Trees Along a River

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Description: Multiple sketches — a man and a woman leaning on a table; close-ups of the woman; trees along a river.
Drawing

Hamburg Landing

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Description: Preliminary sketch of Hamburg Landing. Men are carrying items on land. There is a line of boats docked at the rivers edge.
Drawing

Scene on the Raging Tennessee River

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Description: "Scene on the Raging Tennessee" River. Preliminary sketch of a ship going down the Tennessee River from the vantage point of the deck of the ship. There is...
Photograph

Camp of the 7th Wisconsin

Date: 06 1862
Description: The 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment camp outside of Fredericksburg on the east side of the Rappahannock. Fredericksburg and a pontoon bridge lea...
Manuscript

First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Roster

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Description: Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ...
Photograph

Fort Sumter

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

Struggle on a Bridge During the Retreat from Manassas

Date: 07 1861
Description: Etching of a battle scene during the retreat from Manassas. Originally published by Virtue & Company Publishers of New York.
Print

"The Battle of Baton Rouge, LA. Aug 4th 1862."

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Description: A large color lithograph with caption of the battle in progress.
Photograph

Harper's Ferry

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Description: View of Harper's Ferry, showing the pontoon bridge and bridge (extreme left) which was destroyed in 1861.
Photograph

Burnside Bridge

Date: 1890
Description: Site of the Battle of Antietam, the Burnside Bridge.

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