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| Date: | 1863 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Group portrait made from a composite of 2 photoprints of Company I, first Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry. Standing in back: M.P. Stone, Hiram Gee. Next row: ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Lucius Fairchild during his tenure as Secretary of State of Wisconsin. Fairchild's arm was amputated after he was injured at the Battl... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Hiram H. Herrick of the 36th Wisconsin Regiment in the Civil War. He enlisted from Middleton, Wisconsin, and was the father ... |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of an African American Civil War soldier from Hughes and Meltzer, "A pictorial History of the Negro in America." |
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| Description: | Two Black Civil War soldiers from Hughes and Metzer "Pictorial History of the Negro in America." |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Libby Prison at the Columbian Exposition. Several carts, horses in front of the building. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Old Abe, Wisconsin War Eagle, perched on a stars and stripe shield near a cannon at the Wisconsin State Capitol. There is a flag in the background. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Old Abe, Wisconsin War Eagle, perched on a stars and stripes shield next to a cannon at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Old Abe has his back turned towards t... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Old Abe, the eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry, posed on a cannon with the third Wisconsin State Capitol in the background. From 1864 until his de... |
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| Description: | Friedrich Holdmann of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War, astride his horse. Buildings are in the background. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of H.H. Bennett wearing a GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) uniform. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Civil War portrait of Ulysses S. Grant seated wearing a military uniform. |
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| Description: | An engraving of Ulysses S. Grant in uniform. |
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| Description: | An engraving from a photograph of Ulysses S. Grant wearing a military uniform. He is seated in front of a cannon with a map unfolded in his lap, and cannon... |
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| Description: | An engraving from a painting of Robert E. Lee signing the document that would end the war between the states in the presence of Ulysses S. Grant and their ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | This composite portrait of David G. Farragut, William T. Sherman, George H. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, George G. Meade, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Hooker, Phil... |
| Date: | 09 1887 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of Civil War veterans and their families pose in front of the Milwaukee armory building at the reunion of The Iron Brigade. |
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