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Description: | Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite of Col. William W. Robinson, Seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. |
Date: | 05 1864 |
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Description: | Lithograph of Camp Randall, where the majority of Wisconsin's soldiers were trained and mustered into the Union Army. This view, which was taken from Basc... |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18... |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Portrait of Governor and Civil War General Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) by John Singer Sargent. |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry officers' mess. Pictured are: Surgeon A.J. Ward, Major Thomas S. Allen, Lt. Colonel Lucius Fairchild, and Colonel Edgar... |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Thomas Bigford (in cap, on left) and another official swearing-in two Native American Civil War recruits. Thomas Bigford (1815-1890) of Taycheedah, Wiscons... |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background. |
Date: | 07 1863 |
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Description: | "Old Abe" and "Color Guard" of the Eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, posed in uniform, outside with Old Abe on a shield perch. Likely Edward H... |
Date: | 06 1864 |
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Description: | Civil War General Winfield Scott Hancock and division commanders, (standing left to right) Generals Barlow, Birney, and Gibbon (previously commander of the... |
Date: | 11 1863 |
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Description: | Civil War General John C. Starkweather, center; Lt. Colonel George B. Bingham, left; and General Rufus King, right; all of the Iron Brigade. |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | An oval-framed, seated studio portrait of Anderson Herman, a private in Company I, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform, holding a musket across his chest. T... |
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Description: | Recruitment poster in German for the 26th Regiment of Wisconsin volunteers. |
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Description: | William H. Brisbane, Chaplain of the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry. Inset photograph taken from a large Civil War commemorative roster. |
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Description: | Formal vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Brigadier General Halbert Eleazer Paine. |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | Stereograph of Gettysburg battlefield showing trees and a stump. Handwritten on reverse, "On the right of our line." This is probably a reference to the te... |
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Description: | An advertisement by the Smith Granite Company showing illustrations of various Gettysburg Battleground Memorials. |
Date: | 05 1887 |
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Description: | Members of the Wisconsin commission to locate monuments gather on the battlefield at Little Round Top. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | "Battle of Chickamauga," an oil painting depicting a dramatic moment in the Battle of Chickamauga, painted by Alfred Thorsen after the lithograph. "Charge ... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Stereograph of Soldiers' Orphans Home, formerly Harvey Hospital. The octagon house was originally built for Governor Leonard J. Farwell and designed by Aug... |
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