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| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Adelbert Ames, US Army veteran and Republican politician. Ames was a general in both the Civil War and the Spanish-American War.... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Civil War portrait of Ulysses S. Grant seated wearing a military uniform. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a Confederate Civil War sharpshooter aiming his rifle, created as a preliminary study for a Civil War cyclorama. Although unsigned t... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first northern hero of the Civil War and the popularizer of the Zouaves style of military drill. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord, a soldier, mathematician, and botanist. Alvord fought in the Seminole Wars with the 4th U.S. ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Two men cook at griddles while another leans on an open door to one of many tents at a Civil War army camp. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of young Lieutenant Colonel Arthur MacArthur Jr., F & S, 24th Wisconsin Infantry, posing in a Civil War uniform next to a chair. |
| Date: | 04 1884 |
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| Description: | An engraving depicting the impressment of American seamen by the British Navy during the period before the War of 1812. The image shows a group of American... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a dead or wounded Civil War soldier created as a preliminary study by one of the Milwaukee panorama painters active during the 1889s.... |
| 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: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Men from Wisconsin Rapids who bore arms against Spain in the Spanish-American War. From left to right in front of a painted backdrop are Charles N. Laramie... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted portrait of Brigadier General John McArthur. At the start of the Civil War he was a colonel of an Illinois volunteer regiment, but after the Batt... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil painting of a Confederate Civil War soldier on the ground holding a rifle, created as a preliminary study for the Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a Union Civil War soldier examining his wound. The study was created as part of the work of the German panorama painters active in M... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Cannons aimed out of several openings. Soldiers are working with cannons. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a wounded Union Civil War soldier partially reclining on the ground created by one of the German panorama painters active in Milwauke... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Engraving of portraits of Generals in the Union Army during the Civil War. U.S. Grant is in the center, with H.W. Halleck on his left, and clockwise from t... |
| Date: | 10 10 1861 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of a Revolutionary War soldier standing and holding up the American flag in his right hand, and holding a rifle in his left hand. A plow is behi... |
| Date: | 03 08 1869 |
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| Description: | Letterhead featuring a bust of General Grant surrounded by a wreath, the American flag, an eagle, a cannon and cannon balls, and other instruments of war. ... |
| 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... |
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