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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across water toward Fort Sumter. Caption reads: "Fort Sumter, Charleston, S. C." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Railroad redoubt seen from the north showing the slope where General Grant's column charged on May 22, 1863, during the siege of Vicksburg. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The famous "Shirley House" or "White House," stands near the Jackson Road, which was between the Union and Confederate entrenchments during the siege of Vi... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Cave in a hillside occupied by the Lewis family from May 18 to July 4, 1863, during the Civil War siege of Vicksburg. Hundreds of other caves in the vicin... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Confederate "Fort Hill" on the south side of Jackson Road where the Confederate entrenchments run southward. The Siege of Vicksburg lasted from May to July... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Surrender Monument, where Generals Grant and Pemberton met to arrange terms for the surrender of Vicksburg, July 3, 1863. General Pemberton surrendered 31,... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Photographic calling card of Colonel Edwin O. Kimberly. During the Civil War he was in the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry. It is noted on the card that he was the ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Spangler's Spring on the Gettysburg battlefield. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A small boy holding binoculars is sitting on the edge of Umbrella Rock, with a river far below. Below him is a plaque commemorating the Battle of Wauhatchi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across street toward the headquarters. Caption reads: "General Grant's headquarters during the summer & fall of 1862 before the Battle of Corinth." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Color postcard view of house with trees and yard on a hill. Caption reads: "Grant's Headquarters, Vicksburg, Miss." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Earthwork four miles southwest of Racine, used during the Civil War in light artillery target practice to stop solid shot. Joseph Cooper is waving the flag... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A group of women stand on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse. A banner identifies them as the Department of Wisconsin, National Daughters of the G.A.R... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait, presumably of Brad Robinson, his son and grandson. The eldest wears a badge of the Grand Army of the Republic, identifying him as a Civ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A view of a The Soldiers' Monument, erected on November 1, 1865 by Dan Rice, a famous circus man. The memorial is said to be the first built honoring the s... |
| Date: | 12 23 1938 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified Civil War veterans at soldier's home on December 23, 1938, along with two representatives from the American Legion. The veterans are both ... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | No. 15. Volcano Trading Post and Museum. Building originally erected in 1851. "Old Abe," the famous Civil War cannon, was smuggled into Volcano in a coffin... |
| Date: | 01 01 1900 |
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| Description: | Roster of Company C from the 19th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Presented to the State Historical Society by Calvin E. Morley. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Historic site marker to commemorate the birthplace of the Grand Army of the Republic, founded by Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson on April 6, 1886. |
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