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Filter: Subject of civil war, 1861-1865
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| Description: | Regimental flags of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry. Also has a lists of its commanders; tallied total of people who died of wounds, disease, and accidents; an... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Abraham Lincoln above two crossed Union flags. The caption below reads, "The UNION, it must and shall be preserved." The portrait of Lincoln ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Union envelope. At the top two flags face each other with a shield in the center on a blue background with white stars. A blue border with white stars fram... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Confederate Graves at Forest Hill Cemetery. Each headstone has a Confederate flag stuck in the earth next to it. |
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| Description: | Interior of the Heard House, built in 1795. The room includes Civil War relics, portraits, and Confederate flags. In the corner two doors lead out of the r... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | The letters to the words "DEATH TO TRAITORS" are made up of soldiers, Confederate flags, gallows, a hanged man and guns. A military camp is visible in the ... |
| Read about the battle flags carried by Wisconsin troops in the Civil War and later displayed in the state capitol. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A two-story gallery of the Historical Society in the Wisconsin State Capitol, with captured Confederate army flags on display. This photograph was taken in... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Abraham Lincoln in an oval frame filled with white stars. He is surrounded by four Union flags. A liberty cap appears above the portrait. Two r... |
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| Description: | Letterhead with a head and shoulders portrait of Major General McClellan. His portrait is within an oval and is decorated with American flags, shield, bayo... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A "crest" of Major General George McClellan, on a background of a blue oval with white stars. An eagle with flags, bayonets, cannons, cannonballs and a dru... |
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| Description: | View of the Soldier's Monument, erected in 1898 at Evergreen Cemetery, sponsored by the Grand Army of the Republic. The monument, featuring a soldier and t... |
| Date: | 12 16 1868 |
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| Description: | Exterior and interior menu listing for an Army Reunion Banquet held at the Chamber of Commerce in Chicago. On the cover is a gold shield with a silver star... |
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| Description: | Battle flag of the Twentieth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Union gunboat "Fort Hindman," a small side-wheel steamship. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of veterans of the 36th Wisconsin Regiment posed on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capital in the late 1870s. Some of the men hold drums a... |
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| Description: | Color lithograph of the final charge at Winchester. |
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