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Soldier, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry
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This sepia carte de visite, ca. 1861-1865, depicts an unidentified soldier who served in the Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The carte de visite was produced by Durland & Company in Lawrence, Kansas. Carte de visites were small photographs that were often used as calling cards and became very popular during the Civil War.
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The Monitor and Merrimac
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Painting of the naval battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (Merrimack) on March 8-9, 1862. The engagment is the first naval battle in history between two Ironclad warships.
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Edward Payson Fitch, Jr.
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This black and white photograph, taken circa 1890, depicts Edward Payson Fitch, Jr., son of Edward and Sarah Fitch. He was born in Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. As a baby, he survived Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, but his family’s house was burned down and his father was killed in the attack.
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Soldier, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry
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This black and white carte de visite, ca. 1861-1865, depicts an unidentified soldier who served in the Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. Carte de visites were small photographs that were often used as calling cards and became very popular during the Civil War.
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Julia Sumner Fitch
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This black and white photograph, taken circa 1890, portrays Julia Sumner Fitch. Julia was born to Edward and Sarah Fitch in Lawrence, Kansas in 1858. At the age of five, she survived Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence, but her family’s house was burned down and her father was killed in the attack.
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Joseph Orville Shelby
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Charcoal portrait of General Joseph Orville Shelby in suit coat, vest, shirt, and tie. General Shelby lived in Waverly, Missouri, at the beginning of the Civil War where he raised hemp. He organized a company of State Guards and fought at the Wilson's Creek, Lexington, and Pea Ridge battles. His unit became known as Shelby's Iron Brigade. In the summer of 1862, the Confederate government sent him to organize guerrilla groups in Missouri. After the war, he went to Mexico for a couple years before returning to Missouri. In 1893 until 1897, Shelby was the U.S. Marshal of the western district of Missouri. He died February 13, 1897, and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. (O'Flaherty, Daniel. "General Jo Shelby, Undefeated Rebel." Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1954 [ MVSC 92 S544O ]).
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Charles Sumner
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Daguerreotype portrait of Charles Sumner, Senator from Massachusetts.
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James Buchanan
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Engraving of James Buchanan by John Chester Buttre from 1857.
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1857
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Sterling Price
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Portrait of General Sterling Price taken by photographer Daniel T. Cowell in 1862.
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1862
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Thomas Clement Fletcher
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Painted portrait of Missouri Governor Thomas C. Fletcher. Fletcher served as Governor from 1865 to 1869, and is remembered for issuing the proclamation abolishing slavery in Missouri.
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Office of the Freedmen's Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee
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Harper's Weekly illustration of the Freedmen's Bureau Office in Memphis, Tennessee. The Freedmen's Bureau provided support for African Americans’ transition from slavery to freedom.
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June 2, 1866
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First Battle of Lexington
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The charge of the Irish Regiment (Colonel Mulligan) over the breastworks at Lexington, Missouri.
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October 12, 1861
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Little Blue River, Jackson County, MO
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This photograph of the Little Blue River was taken in the northwest section of Longview Farm, Longview Road, Lees Summit, Jackson County, MO
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Soldier, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry
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This sepia carte de visite, ca. 1861-1865, depicts an unidentified soldier who served in the Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The carte de visite was produced by S.M. Eby & Son in Kansas City, Missouri. Carte de visites were small photographs that were often used as calling cards and became very popular during the Civil War.
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Claiborne F. Jackson
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Illustration of Claiborne Fox Jackson, Governor of Missouri from 1860 until his death in 1862. This engraving originally appears in the 1886 article "Abraham Lincoln: A History; The Border States" by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. 36, published in 1888.
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1886
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William (Bill) Hulse
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Charcoal portrait drawing of a seated William Hulse (Bill) dressed in shirt with pullover decorated on edges typical of Quantrill's guerrillas, tie, and hat. A member of Quantrill's guerrillas, Hulse participated in the raid on Lawrence, Kansas, in August 1863, and the massacre at Centralia, Missouri, September 1864. On July 26, 1865, he surrendered at Samuel's Depot, Kentucky. Hulse died in 1890 and is buried in the Lee's Summit, Missouri, cemetery.
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Jesse James
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Charcoal portrait of Jesse James dressed in suit coat, shirt, and cravat. In 1863, James joined Quantrill's Guerrillas and after the Civil War became leader of the James-Younger gang. He was shot by a new member of his gang, Robert Ford, April 3, 1882.
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