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[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0346]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE RIDERLESS HORSE of Chickamauga. A memorial to the First Wisconsin cavalry which preserves the tradition of a cavalry horse which continued to charge after its master had been shot in the saddle. A fence now keeps visitors to the park from riding in the saddle."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0336]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE SCENE OF AN ENCOUNTER between Lee and Grant. The reconstructed courthouse at Spotsyivania, which stands on the site of the original building. Here the armies of the two commanders met on May 12, 1864."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0339]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE SITE OF A BLOODY BUT INDECISIVE battle. A view from the Confederate earthworks on the battlefield of the Wilderness, fought at the start of Grant's campaign Richmond, May 6, 1864."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0320]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Gen Irvin McDowell didn't really want to fight) . (Gen. Joseph E. Johnston arrived in the of time) . (Gen. Thomas J. Jackson stood like a stonewall) . (Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard was spoiling for battle) . HORRORS OF WAR: All the excitement and suffering experienced by first-time soldiers are depicted starkly in this old print of the First Battle of Bull Run. Soldiers comfort their wounded comrades in the for… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0340]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A MONUMENT TO MARK the end of the war. A memorial near Durham, N. C., where, on April 26, 1865, General Johnston, Confederate commander of the armies of North Carolina and Georgia, surrendered to General Sherman, in the closing act of the war."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0347]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter --- and this map indicates the reason why. As the only major fort in the deep South remaining in Union hands as war approached, sumter controlled Charleston HARBOR, ONE OF THE FEW DEEP SEA PORTS OF THE CONFEDARCY."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0322]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A Union screw sloop, U.S. Navy's San Jacinto, stops the British Royal Mail packet Trent in the Bahama Channel on Nov. 8, 1861. in this engraving depicting andincident which threatened war between the United State and England for a while."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0315]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These two charming couples are men and women of the sixties who faced the horrors of Civil war; who wondered whether the mad project for a railroad across the Rock mountains would ever be completed; and who linked themselves to today with the child shown in their arms, who is over 70 now."
Date: 1934
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0341]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE RANKS OF THE DEAD AT APPOMATTOX. The Soldiers' cemetery near the house where Lee' surrendered to Grant. Eighteen Confederate soldiers and one Union soldier are buried here."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0327]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The "place of peace," the little log Methodist chapel, Shiloh chapel in Tennessee, which gave its name to the bloody Battle of Shiloh, is seen in a reproduction of an old painting."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0335]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MISSIONARY RIDGE TENN. - The scene of the culminating action in the battle of Chattanooga : Missionary ridge, where, on the afternoon of Nov. 25, 1863, 20,000 western soldiers, conspicticuous among whom was Sheridan, rushed up the ridge, driving the Confederates out."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0312]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War was across this Mississippi road where the vanguard of 60,000 Fereral men faced the advance of 40,000 Confegerate troops."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0328]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Battle of White Oak Swamp, where the retreating Union Army of the Potomac was attacked June 30, 1862, on its way back from its march on Richmond, Va., as portrayed in an old engraving."
Date: June 26, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0323]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Union battery on the field of Shiloh. A row of guns which marks the federal positions in the battle which, when it was fought, engaged more men than had ever fought in a battle in North Amertica."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0324]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A monument in the area of the hardest fighting. The Illinois state monument, to the men of the Illinois regiments who died in the battle. The majority of the federal forces from the states of the middle west."
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0313]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Four members of the "Black Crook" chorus. These girl dancers of the "Black Crook," attired "in close-fitting, flesh-colored tights and as little else as the law will permit," shocked the respectable when the play opened in September, 1866 - and brought into the box office $1,000,000."
Date: 1934
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0333]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Where Lee waited on the morning of April 9, 1865. The marker near appomattox, Va., which stands on the spot where Lee waited for the return of his flag of truce sent by him to grant."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0329]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "KENNESAW MOUNTAIN as it stands today. A view of the mountain from highway about 3 1 / 2 miles north and west of the town of Marietta, Ga. On the top of the mountain is an aitplane beacon. In the foreground is a field of cotton."
Date: 1936
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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