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General Benham's winter camp near Poplar Grove Church, Va., with photo of troops

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00919.26 Author/Creator: Place Written: Virginia Type: Map Date: 1865 Pagination: 17 x 21 inches Order a Copy

Printed map, "Winter Camp, Detachment 50th N.Y.V. Engineers" Brevet Colonel I. Spalding Commanding, near Poplar Church, Virginia, Army of the Potomac, 1865. Has been partially hand colored. An original albumen photograph of soldiers with musical instruments, standing in front of a church, has been mounted to the upper right corner of the print.

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