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Major General George Gordon Meade, Union commander at the Battle of Gettysburg, US Civil War.
Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century portrait

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Slave family in colonial New York

Slave family making music in their cellar room of the Knickerbocker mansion, New York, 1700s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Wisconsins Iron Brigade mascot, Civil War

"Old Abe, " the bald eagle mascot of Wisconsin's Iron Brigade, US Civil War.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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