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The volunteers in defence of the government against usurpation 1861

Description: Image of an eye-level close-up view of three Union soldiers gesturing towards an American flag, with a wagon and soldiers on horseback in the background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1861
Call number: priJLC_MIL_001233
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

The Union defenders certificate, in support & defence of the government, the Union and the Constitution of the United States, against the great rebellion

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Image of a blank military certificate with three vignettes of American Civil War military scenes: Union soldiers marching with fife, drum, and American flag, soldiers manning a cannon, and troops on foot and on horseback march down a road past a grave marked "Grave of the Brave" as an African-American woman, man and boy with dog look on.

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Fort Washington erected 1790 in Cincinnati. On the ground now occupied as 3rd Street, east of Broadway

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Image of an eye-level view of Fort Washington in Cincinnati, Ohio; wooden fort structure with soldiers and a cannon visible outside; large American flag raised over the building; wooded hills in background.

priJLC_MIL_001258

Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon of Philadelphia. Being the first institution of the kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th 1861

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Image of Union army marching in ranks past a crowd of civilians in front of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon as lines of soldiers file from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, docks towards the troop trains; American flag on pole at center; crowd includes a band and an African American man; names of committee members and volunteers in bottom margin.

priJLC_MIL_000806

Pickets in the woods : after the engagament, [sic] near the drill ground, C. Andrsn

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Image of an eye-level close-up view of a wilderness scene near Camp Anderson in West Virginia with six Union soldiers lounging on rocks during the American Civil War.

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General James A. Garfield

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Image of a full-length portrait of American Civil War Union General James A. Garfield with a sword on horseback in military uniform; soldiers mounted and on foot in background with an American flag.

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General William T. Sherman

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Image of a full-length portrait of American Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on horseback in military uniform with sword and spyglass in hand; soldiers in background with cannon and an American flag.

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The volunteers in defence of the government against usurpation 1861

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