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[Unidentified brig. generals and staff in front of house.]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0195 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: September 1864 Pagination: 1 albumen print ; 23.6 x 18 cm. Order a Copy

A print of a photograph of two brigadier generals and four other officers posing in front of a house. There is also a vacant chair in the image to the left.

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