Echoes of War
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- A 116-year-old Texan U.S. Civil War veteran on his deathbed with a cigar in his mouth, 1959.
- Union and Confederate veterans shake hands at the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion
- A 116-year-old Texan U.S. Civil War veteran on his deathbed with a cigar in his mouth, 1959.
- Grave marker for a fallen soldier at the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn, in Montana
- Capt. Custer of the 5th Cavalry is seen with Lt. Washington, a prisoner and former classmate
- Portrait of Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim 1910. Refusing to enter a lifeboat, he reportedly asked a steward to inform his family "that I played the game straight to the end and that no women was left on board this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward"
- A 116-year-old Texan U.S. Civil War veteran on his deathbed with a cigar in his mouth, 1959.
- The mostly restored Civil War city class ironclad USS Cairo on display inside the Vicksburg National Military Park! This ship struck a confederate mine in the Yazoo River in 1862 and sank in a matter of minutes with no hands lost. The crew was able to safely make it ashore on
- Capt. Custer of the 5th Cavalry is seen with Lt. Washington, a prisoner and former classmate.
- Fourth of July parade at Central City, Colorado ca. 1890s (colorized).
- Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand; at the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, Sept.-Oct., 1862















