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Petersburg, Va. Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry playing cards in front of tents

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0123 Author/Creator: Place Written: Petersburg, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: August 1864 Pagination: 1 albumen print Height: 27.8 cm, Width: 22.8 cm Order a Copy

A print of a photograph of Union officers playin cards. The soldiers sit at a table in their camp in the woods playing cards while behind, two back servants look on. One holds a tray with a bottle and a drink poured into a small cup. Three of the soldiers are smoking pipes and the man seated on the left wears a camp / smoking cap. The soldiers are From left: Captain A. H. G. Richardson, Captain J. S. Richardson, unidentified, Captain J. S. Crawford, unidentified, Captain Harry E. Rulon. The 114th Penn. enlisted men wore brick red baggy trousers, white leggings, dark blue jackets with red trim and Fench blue cuffs, French blue sashes, and brick red fezs with a yellow tassel. Officers, however, generally wore standard Federal dark blue frock coats and jackets with either brick red trousers or blue trousers. Inscription on verso: "145. XI-II."

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