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White man with mustache and wavy hair in military uniform

Friedrich Salomon

portrait photo in oval frame of White man with beard in black suit

White man with long beard in suit and bow tie

Christopher C. Scott

Map showing route of scouting expedition with notes alongside

Paper note signed by Richard Searcy

Richard Searcy Signature

White man with muttonchop sideburns standing in military uniform with sword

Thomas O. Selfridge

"Mobbed" newspaper clipping

Sharpe McNeil Lynching Story

White man with long hair and beard in long coat

Multistory building with belfry on roof and wood siding

Multistory building with belfry on its roof and white siding

Single-story brick house with fence

White man with beard in military uniform

Francis A. Shoup

Drawing of white man with mustache and beard in military uniform

"Resolutions passed by the convention of the people of Arkansas on the twentieth day of March 1861" document in three columns with border art

Slavery Resolution

White man with beard in military uniform sitting in a chair

Andrew J. Smith

White man with long beard in gray military uniform

Edmund K. Smith

Old white man with beard in suit and bow tie

Weathered stone marker with Masonic symbol in cemetery

V. V. Smith Grave

White man with beard in suit sitting in chair

Oliver P. Snyder

White man with mustache and beard in military uniform with long knife

Soldier with Bowie Knife

Narrow three-story building on dirt street corner

Sperindio Hotel

Maltese cross and flat gravestone with engraving in cemetery

Sprague Memorial

White man with curly hair and long beard in military uniform in oval frame

John W. Sprague

Castle-like building with rows of hospital barracks

St. Johns College and U.S. Hospital

White man in pith helmet holding rifle with shirtless black child behind him with rifle propped on his shoulder

Stanley and Son

White man with mustache in suit with helmet

Black and white photo of steamboats anchored on scrubby river bank near wood frame sheds barns winter woodlands

"News from the White River" newspaper clipping

Steamer Marmora Story

"Attack on a Union Steamer Evacuation of Saint Charles" newspaper clipping

Steamer Marmora Story

White man with long beard in military uniform with horse and dog

Frederick Steele

Steamboats at port with town buildings and cannons in foreground

Steele Supply Depot

White man with long sideburns and beard in military uniform

Frederick Steele

oval-shaped photo of white man with bushy white beard in jacket

Roger Nelson Stembel

White man in gray military uniform and hat standing with column

White man with mustache in suit and bow tie

Erasmus Stirman

Older white man with beard in military uniform

Cornelius Stribling

Rows of storefront buildings with covered entrance across from multistory buildings on dirt road with trolley tracks

Sulphur Rock Street Scene

"Sultana," Performed by Harmony

Burning steamboat on the water with survivors swimming nearby

Sultana Disaster

Large crowd on a steamboat with two smoke stacks at boat dock

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