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Military Band at Lookout Mountain

Date: 1864
Description: Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background.
Photograph

Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman

Date: 1864
Description: Elevated view of Battery C, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman, shown here after the battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain....
Photograph

Wisconsin Volunteers, Lookout Mountain

Date: 04 20 1864
Description: Company D, Twenty-first Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Top row (left to right): John Buboltz, Spencer Orlup, J. Henry Otto, Lyman C. Wait, Andrew Jackson, W...
Drawing

Camp of the 15th Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 1862
Description: Sketch of the camp of the 15th Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry on Island No. 10 during the Civil War. Colonel Hans Christian Heg commanded the...
Photograph

Union Army Officers in the Field

Date: 1863
Description: Union army officers. From left are: General U.S. Grant, General Rawlins, General Webster, Colonel Lagow, and Colonel Killyer take a break.
Photograph

Officers of the Twenty-First Wisconsin Infantry

Date: 1863
Description: The Twenty-First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry posing on Lookout Mountain. From right to left: Fred W. Borcherdt of Manitowoc, Wisconsin; acting Adjutant Co...
Painting

Train Crossing 12th Wisconsin's Bridge

Date: 06 1862
Description: First train crossing the Obion River, Tennessee, on the Ohio and Mobile Railroad on a bridge built by the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers. Watercolor by John Ga...
Photograph

View Across the Tennessee River

Date: 1864
Description: View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa...
Photograph

Lu-La Lake Lookout Mountain

Date: 1866
Description: Cliffs along Lu-la Lake. A waterfall is in the background.
Plate 15
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Chattanooga Valley from Lookout Mountain No. 2

Date: 1866
Description: Elevated view of the Chattanooga Valley, with a river in the far background. A cliff face and trees are in the foreground.
Plate 14
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Chattanooga Valley from Lookout Mountain

Date: 1866
Description: View of the Chattanooga Valley and a river from Lookout Mountain. Trees are in the foreground, and a city is in the background across the river.
Plate 1...
Photograph

Mission Ridge Scene of Sherman's Attack

Date: 1866
Description: Location of Sherman's attack at Chattanooga. There is a road, trees and shrubs in the foreground, overlooking a valley. Mountains are in the distance.
P...
Photograph

The Crest of Mission Ridge

Date: 1866
Description: A road runs up the side of Mission Ridge with several trees. Trees and shrubs are in the foreground, overlooking a valley. Mountains are in the distance.
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Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge

Date: 1866
Description: View from Mission Ridge of the valley floor where fighting took place.
Plate 10
Photograph

Mission Ridge from Orchard Knob

Date: 1866
Description: A rocky ridge with bushes and scrub atop Mission Ridge is in the foreground. Orchard Knob is in the distance. The valley where the fighting took place is i...
Photograph

Chattanooga from the North

Date: 1866
Description: Two log buildings are in the foreground. A bridge spans a river in the middle distance, and the city of Chattanooga is on the far side at the base of a mou...
Photograph

Pass in the Raccoon Range Whiteside No. 2

Date: 1864
Description: View down hillside of Union soldiers standing in front of a group of tents. There is a valley and mountains in the distance.
Plate 07
Photograph

Pass in the Raccoon Range Whiteside No. 1

Date: 1864
Description: Union soldiers stand by their tents in front of a trestle bridge on the railroad line that spans a valley. A mountain is in the background.
Plate 06
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Whiteside Valley Below the Bridge

Date: 1864
Description: View down to valley of Union soldiers posing on the roof of a log building. A log bridge crosses a stream, and many trees are on the hillsides.
Plate 05...
Map or Atlas

Map of Field of Shiloh Near Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. Showing the Positions of the U.S. Forces

Date: 1862
Description: This map of the Battle of Shiloh shows relief by hachures, vegetation, drainage, houses, fields, fences, mills, and roads and is color coded to show the mo...

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