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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832. |
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| Description: | Drawing of a soldier holding a cup, standing next to his bunk at Fort Holt. Civil War firearms are in the closet on the right. Another man is in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| 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. |
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| Description: | A lithograph of eight major generals of the Union with battle scenes decorating the center. |
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| Description: | View through a window of Indians conversing with traders. Caption reads: "Trade-Room [sic], Hudson Bay Company's Fort, In The Plain Country". |
| Date: | 02 28 1863 |
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| Description: | The First Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards disembarking at Fort Macomb, Louisiana. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A scene from a panoramic painting of Grant's assault on Vicksburg. |
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| Description: | A man demonstrating trench shooting in a fortified ditch at Camp Lewis, built in 1917. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Confederate defenses surrounding the city. A tripod style configuration of rifles with a bag and canteen hanging from it is in the foreground. Plate 43<... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | One of the Confederate defenses surrounding the city. This view is of the inside of the earthworks which includes two cannons. A Union soldier sits as a lo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of possibly both American and British soldiers standing just outside a blockhouse fortification. There are piles of logs and an axe on the ground i... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of two soldiers standing outside a blockhouse fortification. One soldier is wearing heavy wool furs and is armed with a rifle, and the oth... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of a soldier with a rifle standing near a timber and sandbag constructed blockhouse. In the distance is a Russian town. The most prominent... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of three soldiers standing in front of a blockhouse that has a tall wooden fence along the exterior. The man on the left is armed with a r... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards four soldiers standing near brush piles. Two men standing in the center, and two men stand behind the brush, defending the road to... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two British soldiers in a mortar station of a trench. One soldier is sitting on top of stack of wooden boxes that contain mortar rounds, while the other is... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two British soldiers posing in a trench. The soldier on the right is manning an air-cooled Vickers light machine gun, and the soldier on the left is holdin... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A damaged blockhouse constructed with logs. In the distance are more buildings. It appears the roof of the fortification has sustained some damage and logs... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers wearing heavy winter clothes are kneeling behind a Lewis machine gun displayed on a blanket. Immediately behind the two soldiers is what appea... |
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