Caption: A plant specimen collected by a captain in the 1st Wisconsin Regiment, John Cornelius McMullen, during a Civil War battle near Atlanta, Georgia on Aug. 14, 1864. The notation reads “Stained with the blood of heros”! (sic).
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Caption: Ken Cameron, director of the Wisconsin State Herbarium and professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, inspects a plant specimen collected by a captain in the 1st Wisconsin Regiment, John Cornelius McMullen, during a Civil War battle near Atlanta, Georgia.
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Caption: Capt. McMullen sent the plant specimen to scientist Increase A. Lapham, considered the founder of natural history in Wisconsin.
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