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Property Record

5000 W NATIONAL AVE (MITCHELL RD)

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Civil War Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument
Reference Number: 119480
Painting

Confederate Civil War Soldier

Date: 1886
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...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Civil war veteran has garrison flag

Date: 1907-10-15
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Bought his way into civil war

Date: 1930-07-13
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Civil war was started 66 years ago

Date: 1927-04-16
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

The Civil War was fought by school boys

Date: 1928-03-11
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Milwaukee's story told in cartoons: in Civil War days

Date: 1923-02-04
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

'Tosa veteran recalls meeting Lincoln during Civil War service

Date: 1930-02-11
County: Milwaukee
City: Wauwatosa
Newspaper Article/Clipping

A civil war captive in an arkansas prison

Date: 1928-01-22
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Civil War veteran, 85, laughs at fate while serving life sentence

Date: 1934-02-14
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

The Civil War as a buck private saw it

Date: 1931-03-01
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Photograph

Arthur MacArthur, Jr.

Date: 1865
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.
Photograph

The Iron Brigade

Date: 11 1863
Description: Civil War General John C. Starkweather, center; Lt. Colonel George B. Bingham, left; and General Rufus King, right; all of the Iron Brigade.
Photograph

Civil War Veterans at Soldier's Home

Date: 12 23 1938
Description: Two unidentified Civil War veterans at soldier's home on December 23, 1938, along with two representatives from the American Legion. The veterans are both ...
Painting

Civil War Cannon

Date: 1886
Description: Oil painting of a Civil War cannon, created as a preliminary study for the Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg, painted by a group of German painters kno...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Casualties of the last war

Date: ????-07-14
County: Milwaukee
City: 
Newspaper Article/Clipping

City was flooded with brew plants during Civil War time

Date: 1926-01-08
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Recalls days in war prison

Date: 1927-03-13
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Print

Offer of Receiver of Commutation Money

Date: 11 23 1863
Description: A receipt made out to Abraham Gilman for the $300 he paid to avoid serving his draft duty in the Civil War.
Painting

Wounded Civil War Soldier

Date: 1886
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....

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