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| Description: | A photograph of a scene from the panoramic painting "Grant's Assault on Vicksburg..." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | "McPherson's Corps in the Afternoon's Assault." A scene from a panoramic painting of Grant's assault on Vicksburg. |
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| Description: | A view of artillery and guns at Fort Jay, built in 1794 to defend Upper New York Bay. The New York cityscape is across the bay. |
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| Description: | A man demonstrating trench shooting in a fortified ditch at Camp Lewis, built in 1917. |
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| Description: | An article discussing a new device to protect Union infantry from the enemy while they are advancing. |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card featuring a girl wearing a red uniform and a sword, standing on the roof of a fort. A boy in a tan uniform with a sword, is looking at... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A large concrete blockhouse fortification at Verst 581 with a concrete outhouse next to it on the right. An armed solder wearing winter clothing stands be... |
| 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: | 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: | The headquarters and blockhouse of the Unites States Artillery on the Dvina River, showing five uniformed men standing outdoors, and an artillery piece par... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers and officers pose next to an artillery piece within a sheltered area. The shelter is fortified with sandbags and camouflaged with branc... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two Canadian soldiers pose in front of a piece of artillery that is underneath a shelter constructed out of timbers. The shelter is also reinforced with th... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers carrying an injured man through the trenches. Caption reads: "Brancardiers [stretcher-bearers] carrying in a wounded pirla." |
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