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Unknown Shiloh National Park

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00653.11.34 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Shiloh National Park Type: Photograph Date: 13 May 1897 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13.5 x 19 cm. Order a Copy

Photograph of Shiloh National Park. Inscription on the back reads: "View showing superintendant's lodge and park of Shiloh cemetary. Also 200 cannon hereafter to be placed on Shiloh National Park, May 13th, 1897." Lt. Laurens Wolcott is standing at right.

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